You Know Its The Beginning of a Great Ski Season When

[catskills]

You Know Its The Beginning of a Great Ski Season When

Its Dec 20th and natural snow ski trails in the Catskills like Belleayre's Cathedral Brook and Utsayantha are opened along with top to bottom wrap around intermediate man made snow trails Roaring Brook and Deer Run. WOW what a great start.

Keep the Karma going

 

[Kerovick]

Hail Ullr!!

 

[Warp Daddy]

all trails are buried by the end of the second week in Dec

 

[Terry]

The junk cars out back of the shop disapear in a mound of snow!

 

[thinnmann]

You Know Its The Beginning of a Great Ski Season When

Its Dec 20th and natural snow ski trails in the Catskills like Belleayre's Cathedral Brook and Utsayantha are opened along with top to bottom wrap around intermediate man made snow trails Roaring Brook and Deer Run. WOW what a great start.

Keep the Karma going

HOLY CRAP - ! I'm gonna be there Saturday with my "backcountry" skis!**


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**those are the ones that I don't mind hitting rocks on Cat Brook with....

 

[thinnmann]

PS -
If you wanna see some sweet snow, checkout this slideshow, "Dump of the week":

http://www.skinet.com/skinet/photos/article/0,26964,1696030,00.html

Here is a sample of some of the east photos (linked) -

Whiteface

Waterville Valley

Stowe​

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

When Blue mountain has Paradise open today and the possibility of 100% for the holidays.

When ice patches in the east are as rare as out west.

When Jay peak has more snowfall to date than Jackson Hole

When your fat skis are used more than your carving skis.

When there's five winter storms before the first day of winter.

 

[dmc]

The junk cars out back of the shop disapear in a mound of snow!

I can't see my neighbors junk cars, snowmobiles and motorcycles anymore...

It's a Christmas Miracle!!

 

[KingM]

When I've shoveled so much snow off the back deck that I've got a twelve-foot mound that I have move before I move any more snow.

When it's only mid-December and already I have to get up on the roof to clean it off before the damn thing collapses.

 

[Method9455]

When you spent half the day in glades in PA and you got back to your car and had no core shots.

 

[MarkC]

Oh it is good right now but lets not get ahead of ourselves. The one thing the last few years have taught me is is don't count your cards before they are fully dealt.

 

[catskills]

Oh it is good right now but lets not get ahead of ourselves. The one thing the last few years have taught me is is don't count your cards before they are fully dealt.

MarkC what part of keep the Karma going didn't you understand :smash:. Because MarkC broke the karma, he won't be invited to any reindeer games.

 

[kingslug]

When you ski Clairs and can't find any ice, no matter how hard you try!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

 

[scharny]

...when there is a lift delay - not because of wind - but because they need to dig out the snow to clear the bull-wheel for one of the lifts.

This actually happened March 2001 at Mad River Glen.

When you hike for turns on Camels Hump in Vermont, and treeline starts WAAY lower than you thought (like about 3600'!). You make it to the summit, and start skiing, and you are skiing big, sizeable snowfields, interspersed with dwarfed trees - and then you realize that the dwarfed trees are the tops of 20 ft tall spruces!

This happened to my buddy Chris & me after the 36" storm in late March 2001.

Here's to hoping both happen again!

 

[Brettski]

Oh it is good right now but lets not get ahead of ourselves. The one thing the last few years have taught me is is don't count your cards before they are fully dealt.

Can we clip your ticket here at AZ?

reminds me of Kelley's hero's...."what's with all the bad vibes man"

I've never seen a better season start than this

 

[ALLSKIING]

When LI has snow on the ground for over two weeks before X-mas.

 

[loafer89]

When you have driven 4000 miles in one month to keep returning to such good ski conditions.

 

[loafer89]

...when there is a lift delay - not because of wind - but because they need to dig out the snow to clear the bull-wheel for one of the lifts.

This actually happened March 2001 at Mad River Glen.

When you hike for turns on Camels Hump in Vermont, and treeline starts WAAY lower than you thought (like about 3600'!). You make it to the summit, and start skiing, and you are skiing big, sizeable snowfields, interspersed with dwarfed trees - and then you realize that the dwarfed trees are the tops of 20 ft tall spruces!

This happened to my buddy Chris & me after the 36" storm in late March 2001.

Here's to hoping both happen again!

That happened to the Spillway chair when it finally stopped snowing on April 18th, 2007 when Sugarloaf got 107" of snow in one week. The snowcat digging out the Spillway chair got stuck, by the way:-o

 

[ERJ-145CA]

When LI has snow on the ground for over two weeks before X-mas.

...when you can change LI to NJ in the above statement.