Who got (or didn't get) NCP last night in NH / VT?

[New Daddy]

The question of which mountains were hit by NCP last night is obciously on everyone's mind, and the resorts themselves seem to be fully aware of it.
At least 3 - Attitash, Okemo & Wildcat - explicitly claimed in their tweets that they they've been getting pure snow with no NCP.

So, who in NH & VT escaped NCP last night, in addition to the three above?

As far as I can gather, Gunstock & Loon received NCP, and looks like there is word that K-Mart also got NCP (which is surprising, because Okemo claims no NCP). Anywhere else?

 

[2knees]

The question of which mountains were hit by NCP last night is obciously on everyone's mind, and the resorts themselves seem to be fully aware of it.
At least 3 - Attitash, Okemo & Wildcat - explicitly claimed in their tweets that they they've been getting pure snow with no NCP.

So, who in NH & VT escaped NCP last night, in addition to the three above?

As far as I can gather, Gunstock & Loon received NCP, and looks like there is word that K-Mart also got NCP (which is surprising, because Okemo claims no NCP). Anywhere else?

maybe wildcat escaped but i'm calling double secret bullshit on the other two. no way okemo, at 3100 feet, escaped it. and attitash's base is practically below sea level.

 

[threecy]

maybe wildcat escaped but i'm calling double secret bullshit on the other two. no way okemo, at 3100 feet, escaped it. and attitash's base is practically below sea level.

Attitash does have a low base, but this did appear to be an eastern storm up here in NH. Example - Wednesday, at 550' in Tamworth, we had 4-5" new. One town over in Moultonboro, at 2,000', 1-2" new. That said, I don't see snow on the trees in Conway.

 

[midd]

attitash webcam shows a pretty distinct snow line in the trees. looks like majority of mountain got the white stuff.

report said 3-6" at the base and 22" on top of bear peak.

http://attitash.com/camfull.html?id=1196

 

[New Daddy]

Ok, Magic also seems to have got NCP, though not much. Just trying to put everything into one thread for comprehensiveness' sake.

 

[Talisman]

maybe wildcat escaped but i'm calling double secret bullshit on the other two. no way okemo, at 3100 feet, escaped it. and attitash's base is practically below sea level.

I can confirm that it rained for awhile last night in Mt Holly, VT (on the Wwest side of Okemo Mt at roughly the same elevation as the base of the Northstar HSQ).

 

[threecy]

A friend from a hiking site posted some data:

According to the Department of Transportation in Lancaster, plow drivers measured:

* 27 inches in Crawford Notch
* 25 inches in Pinkham Notch
* 21.5 inches in Gorham
* 12 inches in Dixville Notch
* 10.5 inches in Kinsman Notch
* 6 inches in Twin Mountain
* 4.5 inches in Franconia Notch

Pretty interesting!

 

[Gunstock]

Gunstock got rain on Thursday night and it drained well. After a foot of snow on Wednesday, rain Thursday night(we opened very little terrain on Thursday to keep the snow). It snowed about 3 inches last night, and I can barely see out my window due to snow right now. Telefest is on for the day, get out an play.

 

[deadheadskier]

Rained at Stowe Thursday > Friday below 3000 feet. They got 4-8 of fresh last night, but the crunch in the woods down low was still pretty severe. It wasn't really a hard 'crust', more like a crunchy couple of inches that was somewhat grabby. weird stuff

The rain damage wasn't bad enough to keep me and many out of the woods, which will be a good thing for the next refresh. They probably picked up an inch today and looking at the mountain across the valley it's socked in I'm assuming with snow.

 

[Mulletious]

How were the conditions today outside of the woods deadhead? went Friday but wasnt so impress after that magnificent day on Wednesday . Were the crowds bad? Imagine most of the powder is gone...?

 

[deadheadskier]

bumps on Goat, Starr, Chinclip and Lookout rocked. They were typical 'Stowe bumps' with funky lines and 'ledgy' back sides in many places, but real nice.

3-5 min wait in singles line for the Gondi. Quad appeared to be approaching 10-15 at one point, so I scooted over to the Lookout double, which had a bit over 5 minute wait in the singles line, which I thought was pretty cool. Can't recall ever seeing a singles line for a double chair.

Place emptied out at 1. I'm assuming because of how tiring the snow was in many places.

As for Powder. There was the 4-7 from last night, pockets of the deep up high, but pretty much from the bottom of the turns on Nosedive down had the crust I described.

Far from an epic day, but very good.

 

[stomachdoc]

Deep, dense powder at Waterville Valley today; lotsa moguls by the end of the day. Most remarkable thing was that there was really no significant snow accumulation on I-93; once off the highway the snow appeared on the climb into the Valley. No evidence of NCP; awesome day, average weekend crowd with many folks quitting early because of the hard work in the pow. Tomorrow should be a sweet day if you like groomers as I think they will cordouroy most of the mountain tonite.

 

[UVSHTSTRM]

IMO, I think NCP hit just about every mountain except the highest of elevations. I think Maine, NVT, and Some of NNH, made out the best in the sense that Jay I think reported little to no rain and the NNH mountains and Maine got what little rain at the beginning and of Sugarloafs and Saddlebacks 50 inches fell after.....obviously I would guess sugarloafs base got more rain, but from most reports once you got up about to the 2500ft mark it was nearly all snow.

Please note I have no first hand notice of this as we got a ton of rain through the central and southern NH moutains and foothills.

As far as Okemo goes, I call BS on not getting any rain, even reports from the more northerly and higher elevation Killington reported some change over for a period of time.

 

[deadheadskier]

actually I think the Southern VT areas faired better than the northern ones as far as NCP. They were closer to the Catskills, which I don't believe saw any rain.......all snow.

It was warmer in Stowe yesterday than it was in Southern NH.

I'll give a BS reading tomorrow for Okemo as that's where I'll be.

 

[Geoff]

The 100% snow line at KMart was a little above 3000 feet. When you have 4+ feet of new snow, a little rain below that didn't hurt anything. It snowed 4"-6" overnight depending on where you were on the hill so first K1 ride today was really nice.

 

[Smellytele]

Was up in the MWV this week. Wed - wet snow at Black, powder at Wildcat. Thursday the only place it didn't rain was Wildcat. Attitash had rain without a doubt except maybe the top. The rain snow line was at Dana Place Inn heading to Pinkham notch. It was going back and forth there but 500 yards up the road it was all snow. Others I ran into said it had rained at Bretton Woods as well. Went to Gunstock today for the telefest (won new bindings as well) and it snowed all day. This morning there was fresh snow, I would say 5-6". Anyway I was pleasantly surprised today.

 

[millerm277]

The 100% snow line at KMart was a little above 3000 feet. When you have 4+ feet of new snow, a little rain below that didn't hurt anything. It snowed 4"-6" overnight depending on where you were on the hill so first K1 ride today was really nice.

I'd agree with that, however you couldn't tell there had been any NCP until around probably 2000 feet, which is well below most of the mountain.

 

[midd]

Was up in the MWV this week. Wed - wet snow at Black, powder at Wildcat. Thursday the only place it didn't rain was Wildcat. Attitash had rain without a doubt except maybe the top. The rain snow line was at Dana Place Inn heading to Pinkham notch. It was going back and forth there but 500 yards up the road it was all snow. Others I ran into said it had rained at Bretton Woods as well. Went to Gunstock today for the telefest (won new bindings as well) and it snowed all day. This morning there was fresh snow, I would say 5-6". Anyway I was pleasantly surprised today.

Attitash was dry pow up top and wet mush at the bottom.

If the place had a mid-mountain to summit lift today it'd have been awesome.

instead, it was just a nice change from the norm.