GCWarrior Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 Clearly no lifts were going to run at Jay today. Wind was howling all day. Lucky for me I packed my skins! There were not many people hiking up which made for lots of fresh tracks. I ripped Canyonland, Valhalla and finally Timbuktu to the car. Snow was fantastic, dense surfy pow, bottomless feeling. Last run down Timbuktu may have been the run of the season. (Yes, 99 days both here in the east and out west!) Untouched down the boundary line, hooting and hollering as I went. Sadly I can’t ski tomorrow and today is my last natural snow day of the season but damn was it a good day to end it! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 That’s awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radarman Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 It really wasn't too windy at Killington yesterday, but stayed mostly overcast and chilly til like 130PM, thereafter softening a little bit. So it was either icy groomers or frozen, cruddy moguls with some windblown pow in the troughs. Almost everyone on the hill opted for the former, and we had the latter to basically to ourselves. Took a little getting used to and some human groomin but it got pretty damn fun and we ended up with over 25k vert of battle skiing. Nice leg workout. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angus Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 Season done? Probably. Skied at Jay Peak for first time ever Friday. I have now seen the 'Jay cloud' in action. Snowed on and off hard all day - really a lot of graupel. Because I was alone, I didn't venture into the woods which were still skiable. Can definitely see the appeal of mountain with mid-winter powder. From there, I drove to Sugarloaf and planned to ski both yesterday and today. Woke up at 530ish yesterday morning and checked the weather stations at saddleback and saw it was 16 degrees at their summit and kind of knew deep down what was in store for the day! Anything that wasn't groomed overnight never softened and was unskiable on the upper mountain. That unfortunately was a lot of the terrain I really like to ski. It was still fun and they have a ton of snow on the hill - in fact, I have now skied there 3 of last 5 weekends and in that stretch the amount of snow loss has been minimum. Amazingly, Winter's Way and Bubblecuffer are still open but I wasn't going to venture down. Skied gondi line probably a half dozen times and although it has a deep base, with the lack of softening it wasn't great and had lots of big chunks of ice that had been busted up by the groomers. Anyway, at the end of the day thinking today would be more of the same - I decided to drive home and rake leaves today...after I go for a bike ride! It has been a good season! So, knowing the cold start, I drove up Eustis Ridge and took a few pictures - spectacular as both @tamarackand @uncletim said. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncletim Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 14 hours ago, Angus said: Season done? Probably. Skied at Jay Peak for first time ever Friday. I have now seen the 'Jay cloud' in action. Snowed on and off hard all day - really a lot of graupel. Because I was alone, I didn't venture into the woods which were still skiable. Can definitely see the appeal of mountain with mid-winter powder. From there, I drove to Sugarloaf and planned to ski both yesterday and today. Woke up at 530ish yesterday morning and checked the weather stations at saddleback and saw it was 16 degrees at their summit and kind of knew deep down what was in store for the day! Anything that wasn't groomed overnight never softened and was unskiable on the upper mountain. That unfortunately was a lot of the terrain I really like to ski. It was still fun and they have a ton of snow on the hill - in fact, I have now skied there 3 of last 5 weekends and in that stretch the amount of snow loss has been minimum. Amazingly, Winter's Way and Bubblecuffer are still open but I wasn't going to venture down. Skied gondi line probably a half dozen times and although it has a deep base, with the lack of softening it wasn't great and had lots of big chunks of ice that had been busted up by the groomers. Anyway, at the end of the day thinking today would be more of the same - I decided to drive home and rake leaves today...after I go for a bike ride! It has been a good season! So, knowing the cold start, I drove up Eustis Ridge and took a few pictures - spectacular as both @tamarackand @uncletim said. Nice, glad you got up to the ridge! It’s funny because especially when you go past the little picnic area it’s not particularly high at all, just happens that there’s nothing obstructing the whole range. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GCWarrior Posted April 26, 2022 Share Posted April 26, 2022 Nice tour up Stratton yesterday. Still a ton of snow up at the top and plenty of top to bottom with minimal walking. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 My brother and niece skied in moderate to heavy snow all day at Solitude in Utah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 Beautiful sunny day for some May turns. Plenty of snow with still 4.5 feet of snowpack at the summit stake. Numerous 2,000+ vertical foot routes still available. Liftline skied great and is probably going to last the longest. It's fat right down to Crossover. Nosedive still goes, Perry Merrill looks like it's about to completely melt out below the Pumphouse, Hayride still went when I skied it yesterday, Lord to North Slope and Sunrise to Standard, Gulch, T-Line, slow side snowmaking trails all good still. Takes a long time to melt all that snowmaking. Fantastic views today of the Chin and also Mount Washington out on the horizon in New Hampshire. Also had a bear run out in front of me on Sunrise; he came out one snow gun uphill of me. I wasn't fast enough to get a good photo while he ran across the trail but did get a grainy one of him in the woods on the other side. He looked at me quizzically (I'm thinking, that's a weird looking dog) as I couldn't see his whole body... then as I slowly tried to get my camera out without startling him, he took off running. They are very docile creatures and afraid of us. Good sized crowd out there earning their turns today. Perfect day for it. Probably have another two weeks left? 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angus Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 Jay just announced they are going another weekend. Friend at Sugarloaf yesterday said it was perfect spring day. Sugarloaf is done. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRVexpat Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 Got into the ravine last weekend and did Killington this past weekend. Weather definitely cooperated! Excellent corn snow for both outings. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted May 3, 2022 Share Posted May 3, 2022 If anyone is looking for a Wachusett GPS season pass discount, send me a PM. $10 off, plus they are limiting sales again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NW_of_GYX Posted May 7, 2022 Share Posted May 7, 2022 Still plenty of skiing left in the alpine if you’re willing to work for it. Hillmans went top to bottom in perfect spring corn today. . 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted June 29, 2022 Share Posted June 29, 2022 https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/suicide-six-ski-resort-vermont-name-change/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 Gunstock Resort in NH is in a sad state now... https://www.wmur.com/article/gunstock-mountain-adventure-park-closed/40677100# Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbutts Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 1 hour ago, HoarfrostHubb said: Gunstock Resort in NH is in a sad state now... https://www.wmur.com/article/gunstock-mountain-adventure-park-closed/40677100# There was quite a social media mob on their press releases on fb yesterday. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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