GCWarrior

Berkshire East was pretty awesome today! A couple small gatherings there. Nothing crazy though. Hopefully we can continue to skin and ski for while.

Jay Peak postponed the IFSA comp because of weather. Moved it to next weekend. 2 hours later IFSA shut down all comps for the rest of the season due to Covid-19.

Mount Snow was pretty decent today. Then actually had a lot more coverage in the woods/natural snow trails than I was expecting. There were a lot of rocks and stumps sticking out. Morning was really tough but after lunch was pretty awesome, soft spring corn.

Yup. I wouldn’t be surprised if other resorts closed after the weekend.

Heading to mount snow tomorrow. Seems like the best option with temps climbing into the 40s by afternoon. Original plan was Sugarbush but I’m skeptical if they get above freezing up during the day.

Sort of hoping the ski comp is postponed at Jay this weekend. Purely for the spectator side of things. No one skis hard or gets creative when it’s coral reef. It is just survival skiing.

Further south the better this weekend. Not looking like any snow in the northern greens friday. Berkshire East, Catamount, Bromley with it's south facing slopes.

GFS trying hard to make the IFSA east finals at Jay Peak somewhat snowy. Euro seems to moving more in that direction as well for Friday. If it doesn’t snow....yikes! Cold Saturday after rain and warmth. Never a recipe for good skiing.

They want to make it to April. Looking like they may fire up the guns again this upcoming weekend.

Today is awesome! Sitting on the back patio. 70 degrees. March 9th!

Well yes. April can also get blocky, rain in sne and dumping snow in the mountains.

This upcoming stretch doesn’t look to add any snow to the pack. Not an all out torch like mid March 2012 but a slow melt at least over the next week.

This winter reminds me of a slightly better version of 2012. The overall setup is a lot different but the results may end up being the same. Even up in NNE outside of northern Maine the comparisons are there. I think the Mansfield snow stake comparison is pretty spot on. Similar spike from several big events in February. I don’t hold out much hope for down here but I’d like to see the mountains avoid a steep decline.

Amazing from March 2nd to March 15th 2018 most of Southern Vermont got 100" of snow. It would be cool to see that map for 3/16.

Skied Snow Ridge Saturday. Could have gone anywhere really but I was looking for a different sort of adventure. Trip was well worth theI’m extra driving despite lack of vertical. 29” of glorious LES skis like an absolute dream. I skied probably close to 40 runs. I lost count after a while. Main lift services a lot of the hill and there is a lot of traversing at the bottom. Place skis much bigger than it’s stats. You can journey out far to skiers left into a big ravine. Sorta a mini mini version of the octopus garden at MRG. Cliffs and steep gullies. Snow pocket T bar is awesome. Lift only runs occasionally but offers some deep turns in untouched powder. There are a some fun trees with several mandatory airs off to far skiers right. As with anything at Snow Ridge you can just keep trAverse along the ridge and ski back to a lift at the bottom. Overall the place was really cool. The lifts are very dated and seem to be held together by duct tape. Place has a great vibe and is worth a trip if you get the chance.

There are a few of those members I would take for here!

Winds look like they howl at elevation through Friday. Others may have better local insight but I’ve found that the four runner quad runs a lot of the time when other mountains have wind holds.

Berkshire East was pretty great today! Manmade skied ok but the real prize was the natural. Layer of ice underneath covered the rocks pretty well with perfect corn on top. We skied east glades, liftline, jug, and many off map stashes. I hit a few rocks but for the most part the coverage was fine. Probably all she wrote with rain incoming Wednesday but damn it was fun to get one day last day in the woods in Southern New England!

Magician, Green line, tress were well covered, red looked pretty thin from the lift. I’m not sure how it will hold up after today and tomorrow.

Devils Fiddle? Looks great! I haven’t skied that trail in many years.

Had a really fun day at Magic today. Judged the IFSA(formally ski the East) comp. I wish I could have skied more than a couple inspection runs. 100 competitors and reviewing scores took the entire day. Skiing was outstanding. My son skied pretty much everything and said it was great. Lines were pretty long and the BLT was hopping when we left. Hopefully the mountain made some money today.

I feel like Sierra resorts either get a ton of snow or far below average snow over the last few years. Squaw Valley has numbers back to 2013 and it’s such a roller coaster. I’ve skied our there a couple times and I was not complaining either way!

We’re they running the summit double? I love that little mountain. Had a pretty epic powder day their MLK day 2009. Boot to knee deep on top of no base. Summit is surprisingly steep.

Not sure why pics are sideways. I’ll fix later.

Judged the IFSA comp at mighty Whaleback today. Kids slayed it on Blowhole. I managed a few runs at the end of the day. Coverage was a little scary but there were some fun turns to be had. Sip of Sunshine on tap too!