snowgeek Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 Anyone know how far north in VT the sleet made it? My buddy is deciding between Gore or Bromley. I know Gore got hammered by all snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 1 hour ago, snowgeek said: Anyone know how far north in VT the sleet made it? My buddy is deciding between Gore or Bromley. I know Gore got hammered by all snow. Bromley should be good through tomorrow but they taint Thursdasy for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 So much snow up north. Mansfield stake at 80" (2nd highest ever recorded for this time of year) and we've got a settled depth of 42" at the parking lot elevation of 1,500ft. The place is just straight buried. The high winds led to very slabby snow conditions but the drifts are out of this world. Ski Patrol had to dig a trench so the Mountain Triple could operate as the snow was too high to let the chairs move freely with people seated in them. Upper Liftline at Stowe is closed due to lack of clearance from the chair to the snow surface. The wind put a good 5-8 foot drift down the trail. This is a photo of the old Nosedive (not currently a ski trail) but this was pretty flat before the storm. Now the wind has loaded the old trail with 6-10 foot drifts. The shear quantity of snow is pretty incredible on the mountain right now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TauntonBlizzard2013 Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 On 1/20/2019 at 2:25 PM, PowderBeard said: What an ass. Jiminy's FB account is wild today. https://northeastmountainsports.com/topic/1219-jiminy/ Welcome to the working world, 2019. No respect for employees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tnt Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 Beyond frustrated. After last weekend fell apart on me, really thought this saturday would be good skiing.....crap. Anyplace gonna strive this rain? Stowe? MRG? What about going west to greek peak? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cny rider Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 5 minutes ago, tnt said: Beyond frustrated. After last weekend fell apart on me, really thought this saturday would be good skiing.....crap. Anyplace gonna strive this rain? Stowe? MRG? What about going west to greek peak? Snow Ridge looks like money in the bank this weekend. if you can even get there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#NoPoles Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 43 minutes ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said: Welcome to the working world, 2019. No respect for employees. People are angry, over 1.5k fb comments Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowgeek Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 On 1/22/2019 at 4:07 PM, powderfreak said: So much snow up north. Mansfield stake at 80" (2nd highest ever recorded for this time of year) and we've got a settled depth of 42" at the parking lot elevation of 1,500ft. The place is just straight buried. The high winds led to very slabby snow conditions but the drifts are out of this world. Ski Patrol had to dig a trench so the Mountain Triple could operate as the snow was too high to let the chairs move freely with people seated in them. Upper Liftline at Stowe is closed due to lack of clearance from the chair to the snow surface. The wind put a good 5-8 foot drift down the trail. This is a photo of the old Nosedive (not currently a ski trail) but this was pretty flat before the storm. Now the wind has loaded the old trail with 6-10 foot drifts. The shear quantity of snow is pretty incredible on the mountain right now. Hey Scott.....The amount of snow in N. VT is amazing. How would you rank this winter as far as rain events and overall snow quality. Seems like a lot of rains to Maine with thaws and refreezes? Seems like just a crap load of precip overall? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amarshall Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 How do you think the conditions will be saturday. Hoping 2 days of grooming will soften up a freeze after a rainstorm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowgeek Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 3 hours ago, amarshall said: How do you think the conditions will be saturday. Hoping 2 days of grooming will soften up a freeze after a rainstorm. I think they're gonna suck. Warm rain at all ski areas summits and all. Gonna freeze hard Saturday. Check the reports and maybe there's enough upslope somewhere for decent conditions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason215 Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 14 hours ago, amarshall said: How do you think the conditions will be saturday. Hoping 2 days of grooming will soften up a freeze after a rainstorm. I think they will be bad. I went to Killington several weeks ago after a cutter and it was pretty bad. I mapped out all of the snowmaking trails and skied only those trails where they blew or were blowing snow on, it was still bad. Perhaps Okemo has better snowmaking capacity and would produce a better product . Or ski the Northern Greens Upslope Machine. Jason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongBeachSurfFreak Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 I would be very very wary of boiler plate ice. Most of the bigger resorts will make snow to resurface so mornings can be good. But as soon as that surface is scrapped off watch out. Solid ice is concrete when you fall on it. My buddy on the ski patrol at Stratton said today was a nightmare. Major melt down with full rivers going down trails. We really can’t seem to catch a break this winter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 On 1/23/2019 at 10:16 AM, snowgeek said: Hey Scott.....The amount of snow in N. VT is amazing. How would you rank this winter as far as rain events and overall snow quality. Seems like a lot of rains to Maine with thaws and refreezes? Seems like just a crap load of precip overall? There has been a lot of thaws, but honestly, that seems to happen more seasons than not anyway. There have usually been quick recoveries and we've escaped a lot of events with minimal damage to snowpack. But every time it rains it does reset the surface conditions to an unpleasant variety. Hard to say on ranking but we have had a lot of great skiing this season. November was awesome, December not as much, but January has been solid to now. Some big upslope events, too. This winter sure hasn't been boring from a weather perspective though. It has been a "you should've been here yesterday" type of season though. You hit when it's good because who knows what will happen in the next few days. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amarshall Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 I just got an update from Stowe. Much better than expected My question is how much better will Stowe be than Killington Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 20 minutes ago, amarshall said: I just got an update from Stowe. Much better than expected My question is how much better will Stowe be than Killington We did get an inch or two last night then another 1-2" this morning in snow showers. I think having realistic expectations could give a better than expected response. There's definitely no shortage of snow, it's just firm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amarshall Posted January 25, 2019 Share Posted January 25, 2019 We did get an inch or two last night then another 1-2" this morning in snow showers. I think having realistic expectations could give a better than expected response. There's definitely no shortage of snow, it's just firm.I'm fine with firm I just don't want to go ski on a hockey rink. Big difference Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 Posted this in NNE thread but probably belongs here... So they say it rained two days ago... The skiing did not suck today. I mean, everything that can go right has gone right this season. It rains 1-2" and then the Greens get 6-8" of snow showers to save the weekend skiing. Everyone today was totally blown away. Expecting the worst after Thursday's torrential rain, only to find 40-80" natural depths and powder turns in the woods. Late this afternoon I went to some of my stashes to get away from the crowds. And a photo from a buddy... I mean look at the snow on the trees?! You'd never know it poured for 10 hours two days ago. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amarshall Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 Killington was surprisingly good today. That's all new snow behind us. Very little ice. Killington can blow a lot of snow in a short time. You don't know if you don't go. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gravitylover Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 I saw some great shots from the Smuggs zone yesterday and today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowgeek Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 Took my niece skiing for the first time today at Royal Mtn. in the southern DAKS. Great coverage and it snowed about 4-5” while we skied. They’re closed midweek so the snow was really great. Powder covered bumps on the lift line were fantastic. Trees weren’t great because under the fresh powder was a breakable crust, but nice powder / packed powder on the trails. 30 runs on the small mountain lol. 1 hour drive and $45 lift ticket. Sweet day!! Oh, and tried my new K2 Shredinator 112mm Twin Tips and they were so much fun!!!. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason215 Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 22 hours ago, powderfreak said: Posted this in NNE thread but probably belongs here... So they say it rained two days ago... The skiing did not suck today. I mean, everything that can go right has gone right this season. It rains 1-2" and then the Greens get 6-8" of snow showers to save the weekend skiing. Everyone today was totally blown away. Expecting the worst after Thursday's torrential rain, only to find 40-80" natural depths and powder turns in the woods. Late this afternoon I went to some of my stashes to get away from the crowds. And a photo from a buddy... I mean look at the snow on the trees?! You'd never know it poured for 10 hours two days ago. I never would have thought 6-8” of upslope would be sufficient to cover boilerplate. Amazing! Perhaps this was a fairly dense snow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 We went to Wachusett for a couple of hours this evening, had not gone since November despite having passes...just too busy, or weather had not been conducive. Conditions were actuallly pretty good, despite the big rainer last week and the freeze up, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 Stowe having some issues this morning. https://www.mynbc5.com/preview/eyJpZCI6IjAyZTJkMmE3LTBmYTQtNDYxOC04YzBhLWNjOTJkNDUwYjIwOSIsInR5cGUiOiJjb250ZW50IiwidmVyc2lvbiI6IjVhZjZjNzlmLWM1MTMtNDFiOS04ZTJjLTAyY2FkNTJmMGQyYSIsInZlcnNpb25lZCI6dHJ1ZSwidmVyc2lvbl9jcmVhdGVkX2F0IjoiMjAxOS0wMS0yN1QyMjoyNzowNS43MTM0ODNaIn0=/?fbclid=IwAR1Swmxd5La_ukkUeeOmP-eQnBy7L34GIzD9a0Pcg1pebj06st4gSEdkHEI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 1 hour ago, Albert A Clipper said: hopefully that wasn't you in the first pic, who skidded into that turn like my grandmother on black ice? Haha of course it was. On top of that rain crust, it's more about smearing through the turn ;). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 18 minutes ago, mreaves said: Stowe having some issues this morning. https://www.mynbc5.com/preview/eyJpZCI6IjAyZTJkMmE3LTBmYTQtNDYxOC04YzBhLWNjOTJkNDUwYjIwOSIsInR5cGUiOiJjb250ZW50IiwidmVyc2lvbiI6IjVhZjZjNzlmLWM1MTMtNDFiOS04ZTJjLTAyY2FkNTJmMGQyYSIsInZlcnNpb25lZCI6dHJ1ZSwidmVyc2lvbl9jcmVhdGVkX2F0IjoiMjAxOS0wMS0yN1QyMjoyNzowNS43MTM0ODNaIn0=/?fbclid=IwAR1Swmxd5La_ukkUeeOmP-eQnBy7L34GIzD9a0Pcg1pebj06st4gSEdkHEI Yup, had to evac the Lookout Double. Fully loaded line while the FourRunner Quad was on wind hold. Went as smoothly as those things can go and most seemed to be in good spirits. Sh*t happens. I got evacuated off the old FourRunner Quad several years ago, it was an interesting experience. The only other local lift I know that's had that this year is the MRG Single Chair had an issue and was evacuated, but with one person to a chair that makes for a more timely rescue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bch2014 Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 I got evacuated off the summit double chair at Waterville Valley a few years ago. Kind of had always been a “bucket list” item for me but I have no real interest to have it happen again. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amarshall Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 16 hours ago, powderfreak said: Yup, had to evac the Lookout Double. Fully loaded line while the FourRunner Quad was on wind hold. Went as smoothly as those things can go and most seemed to be in good spirits. Sh*t happens. I got evacuated off the old FourRunner Quad several years ago, it was an interesting experience. The only other local lift I know that's had that this year is the MRG Single Chair had an issue and was evacuated, but with one person to a chair that makes for a more timely rescue. Couple of moms in my town posted harrowing experience on Facebook. I'd expect a lawsuit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brewbeer Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 I was evac'ed off Magic's Red chair a few years ago. Was one of the last chairs unloaded, about 80 minutes on the chair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 1 hour ago, amarshall said: Couple of moms in my town posted harrowing experience on Facebook. I'd expect a lawsuit Suburban moms don't like that type of stuff lol. My mom would probably rather just stay on the lift until it's fixed in a few days. @cpickett79 had quite the meltdown rant on Stowe's Facebook over the fact that they only got a free lift ticket. In the past it would've been a hot chocolate vouchure as the industry standard and I'd love to know a ski resort that gives guests more than a free ticket in that situation. Maybe a free season's pass or something? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowgeek Posted January 28, 2019 Share Posted January 28, 2019 Why can’t they just slowly let the chair run backwards and unload everyone safely at the bottom lol? I’m sure there must be a good reason, but just sayin. #gravity#brakes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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