Professional Lurker Posted December 11, 2014 Share Posted December 11, 2014 That $12 mount snow deal is a fun time, did it the past few years. Not this year, unfortunately as i still have ankle issues. Jan at the earliest for me. .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 I will be at Bolton's opening day tomorrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Bolton's opening day, tons of new snow, and a power failure at the mountain. FML! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radarman Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 That time of year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUNNAWAYICEBERG Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Love the freshies in the trees. I can lose myself in it. Great start to season up north, congrats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitman Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Bolton's opening day, tons of new snow, and a power failure at the mountain. FML! Bummer! http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/14/travel/skiing-as-it-was-before-chairlifts.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=mini-moth®ion=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Bolton's opening day, tons of new snow, and a power failure at the mountain. FML! I think Smuggs had an outage too this morning. Killington lost all power yesterday morning per a FB post. Lots of trees still breaking out there. They've been stressed for 48+ hours and still can't shed the snow load. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radarman Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 I think Smuggs had an outage too this morning. Killington lost all power yesterday morning per a FB post. Lots of trees still breaking out there. They've been stressed for 48+ hours and still can't shed the snow load. Killington and Pico were totally out from about 9:30 to 10:30. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Killington and Pico were totally out from about 9:30 to 10:30. Were they able to run any lifts during that time? Here we've got a few key lifts with 3 power sources, so even if we lose the feed from town we can at least operate some stuff and still be in compliance with tramway code of having two available power sources. I would assume Killington has something similar given the scope of their operations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radarman Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Were they able to run any lifts during that time? Here we've got a few key lifts with 3 power sources, so even if we lose the feed from town we can at least operate some stuff and still be in compliance with tramway code of having two available power sources. I would assume Killington has something similar given the scope of their operations. When power was lost the lifts stopped for about 15 minutes or so. Then they ran auxiliary power long enough to offload... after that they shutdown with no updates. Less than 5 minutes before power came back the director of finance was at the ticket booth telling people 6 hours and sending them home. We already had tix so we were going to wait it out for awhile and when the lights came on we hightailed out to superstar. Great early season conditions no doubt, some of the best since 12/07. We were mildly annoyed at Killington not running the Gondola and shutting down the Canyon quad before noon for no reason other than saving electricity. It made getting toward the top difficult... Snowdon to the North Ridge only. But other than that it was spectacular. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 radarman, you are right though on these conditions...best December skiing I can remember in a while. Although last December was good right up until Christmas, we weren't skiing on anywhere near this amount of terrain. And this snow is so dense that it can support heavy traffic and not get skied down to dirt after the first 100 people go through. Its also incredibly scenic...like skiing through the Candyland Forest or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radarman Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 radarman, you are right though on these conditions...best December skiing I can remember in a while. Although last December was good right up until Christmas, we weren't skiing on anywhere near this amount of terrain. And this snow is so dense that it can support heavy traffic and not get skied down to dirt after the first 100 people go through. Its also incredibly scenic...like skiing through the Candyland Forest or something. Both of these. The snow reminds me a lot of my days at Squaw. Really it's perfect for basebuilding... not pure slop, but heavy stuff from the synoptic event followed by some lighter upslope induced topping. With a little ZR to get the limb coated effect. Can't wait to get back out there. Bear Mt. and Needles Eye open tomorrow at Killington. Castlerock opened yesterday at Sugarbush. MRG opened today. And Mt. Ellen opens on the 19th... Plus Stowe and Jay are cranking of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Awesome shots. Very appealing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Both of these. The snow reminds me a lot of my days at Squaw. Really it's perfect for basebuilding... not pure slop, but heavy stuff from the synoptic event followed by some lighter upslope induced topping. With a little ZR to get the limb coated effect. Can't wait to get back out there. Bear Mt. and Needles Eye open tomorrow at Killington. Castlerock opened yesterday at Sugarbush. MRG opened today. And Mt. Ellen opens on the 19th... Plus Stowe and Jay are cranking of course. kmart_121114_1.jpg Eric you guys know how to have fun. beautiful pics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 MRG is 100% open too, damn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Picnic tables... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Bolton opened at about 1:15pm and in the end I got in several hours of quality early season skiing! You couldn't ask for better this time of year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Candyland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quakertown needs snow Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Wow http://www.stowe.com/_includes/img_retrieve.php?webcam/octagon.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professional Lurker Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Spent the morning at berkshire east. Lot got pretty full, which is always good to see. While they didn't recieve as much snow as vt they're doing well, coverage looked decent. The new quad is light years faster than their old summit triple. The old lift went as fast as the chair that goes up flying cloud. Was cool to see them running side-by-side. Wish I could have skied! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Spent the morning at berkshire east. Lot got pretty full, which is always good to see. While they didn't recieve as much snow as vt they're doing well, coverage looked decent. The new quad is light years faster than their old summit triple. The old lift went as fast as the chair that goes up flying cloud. Was cool to see them running side-by-side. Wish I could have skied! Sweet Saddleback opened today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radarman Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Spent the morning at berkshire east. Lot got pretty full, which is always good to see. While they didn't recieve as much snow as vt they're doing well, coverage looked decent. The new quad is light years faster than their old summit triple. The old lift went as fast as the chair that goes up flying cloud. Was cool to see them running side-by-side. Wish I could have skied! Yeah nice day up there. More typical early season conditions, but can't complain after the start we've had. Lift is faster indeed, though the carpet loading system isn't my fave... no complaints though and I heard they kept the old one to possibly expand at some point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Heading up to Stowe with gibbsfreeenergy on Friday/Saturday 1/9-1/10? Anyone going to be around? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Heading up to Stowe with gibbsfreeenergy on Friday/Saturday 1/9-1/10? Anyone going to be around? Lets meet up for some runs! Looks like British Columbia up here right now. Heavy heavy rime and snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Some cool views once the sun came out... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Wachusett 12/13/14. Love the Saturday morning thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Hey how was Wawa BTW? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Nice, Dave. Looking good down there too for December 13th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 13, 2014 Share Posted December 13, 2014 Fun to have this type of base and coverage on the steeps as early as December 12th. This is the Lookout trail...my favorite on the mountain. There's something about it, the ledges, double fall-line, old double overhead, its really an under-rated trail. The Front Four gets the press, but Lookout is like the red-headed step child. Almost 2,000 vertical feet (1,900) of trail that just goes down, and down, and down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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