LongBeachSurfFreak Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 Just bought my season pass for next season at Stratton. $480 including tax and fees. Like I have said before skiing/ridding can be done affordable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TauntonBlizzard2013 Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 Might try to head somewhere Thursday for the day. Try to take some pressure off waiting to hear back from my interviews over the last few days. Ticket prices seem to finally have dropped, but this looks like the last week for a lot of places, despite snow. I understand why places close. Can’t cover wages, operating costs, etc etc with 10 people on the mountain at 20 bucks a ticket Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angus Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 Skied at Mt. Snow today with my son - a board participant here. Thought today looked like the best opportunity get spring conditions - soft snow and blue skies - for the foreseeable future. The mountain has a ton a snow. Arrived hoping to lap the north side lift and ski soft bumps but temps at higher elevations and clouds coming in after lunch kept the snow more mid-winter, crusty & grippy for the duration. The main face softened more but the terrain is not as interesting or challenging. We went into woods on the main face - found coverage adequate but debris was starting to stick out so got out pretty quickly. Woods on north side looked like better coverage. All in all a good day. No corn has developed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angus Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 MRG just announced they are done for season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j24vt Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 Our 12 year old daughter: "Why is Stowe closing this weekend? We haven't had spring skiing yet." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angus Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 Sunapee had planned to be open this weekend. Just sent email that end of season is 4PM today given incoming weather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowgeek Posted April 14, 2018 Share Posted April 14, 2018 Skied Big Sky 3/30-4/4. What a fantastic mountain! No lift lines. More sick skiing than you could ski in a month. Marx, a double black from the summit tram was epic. Great tree skiing. 18” powder on 4/2. Incredible conditions. Deep base. Trip of a lifetime!! . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowgeek Posted April 14, 2018 Share Posted April 14, 2018 Just found out my son is going to grad school at Oregon State in Corvallis. Looks like I’ll be skiing Oregon and/or Washington next winter!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted April 14, 2018 Share Posted April 14, 2018 Nice snowgeek. I def want to ski big sky...always heard great things. You def skied it at the right time. I've heard it's often brutal in mid winter at that latitude with the cold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted April 14, 2018 Share Posted April 14, 2018 Wachusett skiing on 20 trails today. That’s pretty sweet...my schedule doesn’t allow me to head there. Slight chance they open next weekend as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#NoPoles Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 Omg, my good friend just got a job as lift electrician at the Yellowstone Club out by Big Sky, MT!!! They flew him out and took him to dinner and he accepted the job offer. He will be moving out there in a little over a week. I'm so excited for my friend, but also excited I now will be able to ski out there and have a place to stay for free and probably get a discounted lift ticket! Maybe we can have a g2g at Big Sky? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted April 21, 2018 Share Posted April 21, 2018 I'm skiing closing day at Mount Snow tomorrow with my son. It should be an awesome day with 56 trails opened and tons of natural snow still remaining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted April 21, 2018 Share Posted April 21, 2018 Some pics from yesterday's adventures at Stowe... closed skied area and 7-9" of dense upslope snow. The snow quality was perfect. So dense you'd never hit any bottom (like floating on graupel and rimed flakes) but not wet and sticky. Only the type of snow that comes from a cold atmosphere but not in the max snow growth temps. Like SWFE snow, ha. Spent the night with some friend's up at Stowe Mountain Lodge...which is one heck of a weenie location to stay. I mean, it snows in town but not like it does at 1,500ft on Mansfield. That place knows how to precipitate. Went walking around the little base area that night while it raged snow and wind. There was only 2-3" at this point but it was coming down at a steady 1"/hr so we figured that would bode well for tomorrow. Woke up to 7" in the base area and called my wife, who reported 1-2" and that's about as precise as it was going to get, ha. The usual gradient here over 5-6 miles from pure mid-winter snowstorm to just some steady light snow in town. Lifts are fun but it's also fun to get up top and find every run just sitting there covered in fresh powder with no tracks on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted April 21, 2018 Share Posted April 21, 2018 So was last year better or does this late season dump help bring this year up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 Big crowds at Killington today with cars parked down the access road to Ramshead. Must only be locals since nobody is skiing anymore. K decided to run K-1 for another week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angus Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 Friend sent me pic from Sugarloaf today taken from Bracket Basin area...report was silly amount of snow. Snowfields looked fantastic. Headed to Wildcat in early AM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 2 hours ago, CoastalWx said: So was last year better or does this late season dump help bring this year up? Last year was still better to me for its consistency in-season. I mean it seemed like it snowed every day. It showed with another 100" measured at the same stake between the two seasons. It was more active with snow shots coming from everywhere. This year has had impressive late-season snowpack to me and great snowpack all season for the amount of snow. The late season -8 departures, literally nothing has been able to melt at elevation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkO Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 I would rate this season slightly better, but let me qualify. Comparatively NH did better than VT when compared to last year. End December was brutally cold and January thaw sucked, but it's been great since then! It's almost hard to believe it's late April when you look at photos from above say 2000' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 I'm at Mount Snow and the conditions are okay. It's was very firm at 8am with the temperature at 27F. It's better now with softer snow on groomer trails. Tons of snow on the mountain TTB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 Skied closing day at Mount Snow. There is a tremendous amount of snow for late April. It's depressing coming home from snow cover to green grass. Summer can suck it. Lets play find the bare spot: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 29 minutes ago, Sugarloaf1989 said: Skied closing day at Mount Snow. There is a tremendous amount of snow for late April. It's depressing coming home from snow cover to green grass. Summer can suck it. Lets play find the bare spot: Yeah it's obscene looking at the late season snow cover all over. I mean literally nothing has melted yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 3 minutes ago, powderfreak said: Yeah it's obscene looking at the late season snow cover all over. I mean literally nothing has melted yet. I imagine the Connecticut River is going to have some late season flooding. There's still a tremendous amount of snow cover just in Southern Vermont. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angus Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 Great day at Wildcat. Guessing I took in vicinity of 30+ runs which would put me at 60K feet of vertical. Got on lift at 8:30 and skied groomers until things softened around 11:30ish. From then on, it was skiing bumps. Finished at 3:58. Pretty much the whole mountain was open with some sections of trails closed due to ice. Lower trails that don't have snowmaking showing some bare spots but some of that is a function of traffic funneling due to natural features...boulders. Parking lot was jammed packed. Told that the Saturday crowd was just as large. Can't seem to upload any pics but Washington is loaded with snow. After next weekend, word is they will open one day in May to claim May skiing and that will be it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skivt2 Posted April 23, 2018 Author Share Posted April 23, 2018 Amazing weekend at Killington! The crowd that showed up was close to the size of a mid winter weekend but with far fewer base areas and parking lots. With 4 lifts servicing an enormous amount of open terrain the trails and glades were not crowded and the lift lines were manageable. Parking was at a premium and many folks got a good warm up hiking to get up into the basin. The weather was beautiful with blue sky and slowly softening snow. The most amazing is how good the snow cover is. Simply epic skiing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 12 hours ago, Skivt2 said: Amazing weekend at Killington! The crowd that showed up was close to the size of a mid winter weekend but with far fewer base areas and parking lots. With 4 lifts servicing an enormous amount of open terrain the trails and glades were not crowded and the lift lines were manageable. Parking was at a premium and many folks got a good warm up hiking to get up into the basin. The weather was beautiful with blue sky and slowly softening snow. The most amazing is how good the snow cover is. Simply epic skiing! Who knew so many locals are still skiing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 10 hours ago, Sugarloaf1989 said: Who knew so many locals are still skiing? It certainly all came together last weekend. Perfect storm of the very FIRST spring skiing and riding of the entire season (aside from February, lol) following a week of several snow/wintry events. Places like Stowe and Smuggs missed out because weekends like that don't come together very often. Just make one of Saturday or Sunday overcast, even with the same temperatures and snow, and we'd see just how important sunshine is this time of year. The sun shining probably resulted in the difference of THOUSANDS of skiers at Killington. It's crazy to me how that happens, when it all lines up there are so many factors that can come together to produce a huge weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 Sugarbush had a record crowd of 3,000 skiers/riders on April 22nd. This beat the previous April record of 1,800. There was a 45 minute wait for Castlerock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 I saw this on facebook. For many this ends up being a helicopter rescue: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan76 Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 Click on his page and you can see it from his go pro, bindings must of been set on 0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brewbeer Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 I wonder if he hiked back up to get his pole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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