GCWarrior

Berkshire East was various levels of fun the last week. None of the three storms really produced much. Monday seemed around 6-8” of very dense wet snow. This did allow them to get some of the natural snow trails “open”. Jug, lift line and a couple others. There were a ton of rocks and extremely thin cover but they skied well for a little bit. Monday early was the best, fast wet snow on the manmade surfaces was really a blast. This weekend should be nice, warming temps and hopefully some sun.

Steady snow in savoy

Jay was good yesterday. First couple runs were awesome down exhibition and then the woods next door. Lower angle stuff was definitely better but all in all it wasn’t bad considering the low snowfall so far. We tried our one tram run but we waited 30 mins to make it to the door and then they held for 15 mins, finally telling us it was closed. Kick in the sack for sure. Patrol opened a lot of questionable covered terrain but I like the MRG style anyway so it was fine, skis survived.

Just drove through Savoy and I’ll say it’s not snowing there. Hope it changes soon.

Looks good for burying some bodies! Might almost be able to ski up there again soon.

Has anyone here been to Mount Bachelor? Friend of mine has a place in Bend for a month. I might pull the trigger and head out for a few days over February vacation. Probably ski Mount Hood Meadows too.

NAM mostly frozen for Saddleback/Sugarloaf. Winter goes on up there. Gotta get up there this year.

I’m nipple deep in 200 hour gfs powder this winter for sure!

Decent shift east.

These dumpy winters separate out the places with big budget snowmaking vs the rest. Magic for example is trying to open Thursday after being closed since New Year’s Day. Likely they open for one day and are closed or extremely limited for the holiday weekend. Sad state of affairs indeed. One of the better places to ski in New England when they have snow!

No school. Well I do but my daughter doesn’t. Top ten June days, kids staring out windows, endless work sheets and videos. Will be sad to see it.

Skiing was surprisingly good at Berkshire East over the holiday break. Early week was hard fast groomers and later in the week turned into spring groomers. Bare spots got worse as the week went along but the coverage was still fine despite the warming temperatures. Considering how terrible last year was at the same time I’ll take it.

Hoping to get back BMOM and Saddleback later this season. SB is awesome. One of the best in the east.

They are opening tramside today. Running on mostly natural snow over there.

They blew whales to allow the rain to run off. Hard to get into the woods at beast before Christmas. 2007 and 2008. 2013 I believe had a nice storm mid month I remember skiing in the woods. 2014 had a big one up north not sure about Berkshire east. 2019 and 2020 smoked by cutters.

Berkshire East has indeed been blowing everyday this week. This rain storm is a bummer as the skiing despite being hard is really good. Not many rocks or stumps to contend with. They will fire the guns back up as soon after they clean up any damage and hopefully they can open Saturday. Friday I would think is doubtful. As long as snowmaking weather can continue into the holiday week they should offer a decent variety of terrain off the summit.

Was up at Jay Peak for the last 4 days. Conditions improved rapidly from Thursday to Sunday. Trees and natural snow trails were almost in. It didn’t deter people from skiing them though. I tired a couple spots and found there to still be some stumps and rocks. Overall a great time. Sad the rain is coming, hopefully the new year can bring a big storm.

Woodford is getting destroyed!

It’s more like 450 feet. I’m hoping for 6” of slop and big powder bomb next week!

Maine has some killer skiing. I've been lucky to be involved in some pretty awesome powder days up there. Feb 2010 famous "snowicane" storm that dumped 70" on the Catskills also dumped over 5 feet at Saddleback with no change up over up high. Drove 8 hours in a whiteout from my house in Holden to Rangeley. Worth every moment of that drive. Two of the best days of my life. Skied Sugarloaf while the big Noreaster in Feb 2013 was going on. Not the big totals of down south but they still got over 15" of wind loaded snow that all went into bracket basin which was previously closed. Pretty sick day. Hit Black mountain of maine on a couple powder days, place has some of the best tree skiing in New England which is saying a lot.

Smuggs has the best terrain in the east. Stowe is pretty good too. The terrain off the four runner quad is pretty much on par with the best terrain pods I’ve skied anywhere. The side country at both places is amazing as well. Then there is MRG which has a special place in my heart. Big time rowdy terrain by both east and west standards. MRG is one of remaining pure classic places to ski in the USA(Alta, Taos)

My day April 21st. 15” of powder but the lifts were on hold per usual. Still an awesome day of human powered turns.

Went to Killington last Wednesday. it was decent for early season. They were running north ridge plus they opened top to bottom off the gondola. Not an ideal setup for lapping but it worked out. Northridge had a few options which felt a lot more than the same date last year.

Nice to see Bousquet opening on Friday. They have been blowing snow all week and it looks like they will be offering a decent amount of their terrain. Great hill with a really nice new lodge and bar. Very skin friendly. They have some fun trees if they get the snow. I would say they get a bit more snow than Berkshire East.

Nice tour up Stratton yesterday. Still a ton of snow up at the top and plenty of top to bottom with minimal walking.