Angus

I'm flying Saturday at the crack of dawn to Boise to begin a four state, 10 day ski vacation. I've got enough obstacles between not catching COVID between now and then and flight crew availability...can we role this threat to Sunday please.

20 hours ago, radarman said:

Awesome, glad you enjoyed it.  They have done a really good job with the snowmaking... 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CY1xTPbpO6T/?utm_medium=copy_link

Just back from Berkshire East where I believe almost every NE Indy Pass holder was today due to black outs! I timed one lift line at 21 minutes. With that said, management posted signs that due to the long lines they were extending the day to 5pm! Very nice snowmaking effort. Nice variety of terrain open. No complaints really except my feet were cold! Haven't been there is some time and the mountain really has changed. Was on the lift a few minutes before 10 and finished my last run at 4:15 with a 15 minute lunch break at the summit. Beautiful day.

Get the wool blankets out on the lift.  my uncle who knows cold from skiing at SLoaf has mentioned skiing at Stowe in early 70s maybe late 60s in brutal cold wrapped in a wool blanket on the old single chair.

A few years ago mentioned the tremendous skiing at Wildcat the weekend after that final big dump in April 07 but as they normally do late season they were closing mid-week. All the Wildcat skiing staff couldn't wait to close and drive to SLoaf to ski for the week.

I feel like this is piling on but friend with two young boys - under 10 - drove up to Sunapee on my recommendation saturday after asking crotched versus sunapee - they are epic passholders obviously. never made it to mountain - turned around due to traffic! This friend relocated to Jay last year with her two kids and had the mountain to themselves all season - spent a week at xmas this year at mt. snow which she said was not very good.

https://unofficialnetworks.com/2022/01/10/mount-sunapee-traffic-jam/

7 hours ago, Lava Rock said:

Is there enough snow at pinkham to snowshoe? Or are most using spikes?

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Microspikes and poles for sure.

Nice day at cranmore yesterday. Icey and skied off by end of day but what they had open was good. Cranmore is a funny place, ignored it for all my life and have now skied there 3 times since 2017 on clear cold days and have enjoyed it very much. Views are top notch and there is some fun terrain with a snow pack  Drove up to pinkham afterwards and hiked up the Tuckerman trail a distance and there were quite a few skiers coming down the Shelburne on a surface that was 1/2 snow and 1/2 grass and rocks. 

About same in n. conway. Took a quick hike up to lower headwall yesterday afternoon. Snow flying, cold and windy but not much snow.

Think you are thinking of liftopia. I thought they had been shuttered but site is still up - most areas have moved away and offer discounts in advance on their site.

Great thing about BW is one good snowstorm and they will be 90-95% open given there isn't a lot of rock and the slopes are relatively gentle. How much snow and ice is left in the woods and unopened trails. It must be pretty much boilerplate which is great if the next storm can adhere.  Skiing Cranmore with family on Saturday and hoping for a storm - I'm averting my eyes until we're closer to Friday. Also, planning to xc at jackson on Friday.

ouch at crotched. this is very unfortunate...

As a result of these challenges, we have made the difficult decision to amend our schedule of operations to Wednesday through Sunday, beginning January 1, with the following hours: Wed. 9-5; Thurs-Sat. 9-9; Sun. 9-5. This change to a five-day schedule will allow our hard-working resort teams to better focus on delivering the best possible ski and ride experience for our guests on those days.

awesome ski report...

https://www.instagram.com/p/CYEmHD4l9PE/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

22 hours ago, MarkO said:

Skied Vista on natural snow. If they could muster another 6" or so, they might be able to open more natural terrain. 

Vista Way is one of my absolute favorite trails in all of NE. Maybe a combination of the views and the terrain but it never gets old.

I saw it was open on the trail report and thought 'ouch' - there are a lot of rocks and given its exposure, lot of snow gets blown off especially on the right side. I've definitely hit a few things on it over the years!

31 minutes ago, Torch Tiger said:

His best album to me was with Faces, never cared for his solo stuff.  Not that it is bad

100% concur. Great band. My brother-in-laws and wives saw him in Vegas this fall said his show was still very good.

Of course if you are into this sort of thing, if you talk about Faces you need to discuss Steve Marriott and Humble Pie.

11 hours ago, powderfreak said:

I'm not going to lie, I thought the same thing but looked it up.  Learn something new everyday.

General Gau's chicken, often called General Tso's chicken, is chicken that's been battered and fried, then coated in a fragrant, orange-y ginger sauce that's spicy, tangy, sweet, and hot all at the same time.

here's more than you ever wanted to know...and the NYTimes refers to the dish as "Tso's" and you know they are never wrong...don't believe this is behind paywall.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/world/asia/general-tso-chicken-peng-chang-kuei.html

Cannon IMO has really stepped up their game in recent years in snowmaking investment. I know some folks here think it is too icy but I think that is in some respects a function of location. I was pleasantly surprised yesterday - coverage was deep on trails open. If they get a crush of people over the holidays without more terrain, it will be a problem but the pickings in NH are slim right now from what I can tell. I doubt I will downhill ski for remainder of calendar year.

skied cannon today - 4 off the top and 3 of the front 5 (Gary, Rocket and Zoomer) very impressed with the job they have done. snowed most of day but probably only accumulated an inch during day. rain and freezing rain changed to snow at 104 and 93 on way up.

did a sunshine village, kicking horse, revelstoke and fernie trip a few years ago. Revelstoke is interesting - deep winter at the top and spring skiing at bottom. drove thru/over rogers pass going between golden and revelstoke - all the avalanche infrastructure is cool. You see signs for heli-skiing all along the road out there...kind of cool. Lots of snow everywhere out there. a friend has skied the heli operations out of revelstoke and said it was fantastic.

6 hours ago, bch2014 said:

Very glad to be team Indy Pass this week. 

Skiing Cannon and Pats Peak this week, both of which have far more terrain open than their Vail competitors, WildTash and Crotched (I was Epic last year).

 

crotched isn't even open although I did look at their webcam today and they have made snow. tough deal whatever is going on which from I read seems to be staffing shortages and equipment malfunctions.

It doesn't look the nordic center is open yet in presque isle.

i noticed Killington reported 11" this AM versus 6" for Okemo and the storm a few weeks ago Killington reported 19" not sure about Okemo but I bet that represents a bulk of delta.

59 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

I def recall the Christmas 1980 cold.  

grew up on the south shore and remember walking up to the local pond on xmas day to try on the skates Santa had brought the night below. Right around zero degrees...a couple of circles around the pond and I was done and headed home. That was some real cold. I still have the skates.

8 hours ago, Ginx snewx said:

People diss the 1980s and talk about forecast busts. How about this one. My forecast was for flurries and light snow to an inch. 22 inches later on Dec 5th 1981, of course, a mighty blizzard hit. My favorite positive bust of all time. Also at the time was the earliest heaviest snow since you guessed it. DEC 5TH 1926

 

That's a great article and I have zero memory of it. Living in Waterville Maine and I should remember that event very clearly. I remember very little snow that Fall. Late December was good. The article references Squaw Mountain's manager which is awesome.

hiked middle and north sugarloaf off of zealand road yesterday. lots of snowmaking at both BW and Cannon. Looks like Gary's and zoomer will be open soon with caveat re: upcoming weather. We stopped to take picture at BW and someone in parking lot said skiing was very good. The cars parked along 302 in crawford notch was silly - weekend summer like. Only saw 2 couples on our hike.

I don't know SR but that route isn't great 'vertical' at Wildcat - I would normally skate and pole from the offload area to middle wildcat. I noticed that Wildcat's twitter is advertising a hiring event this Friday. What's strange about the current state of snowmaking is Peaks was using the mountain as a testing center for the HDK guns a few years prior to Vail acquisition. That TomCat lift is slow...