HoarfrostHubb Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 14 hours ago, eyewall said: The next time anyone complains about a wind hold show them this video:https://twitter.com/severeweatherEU/status/948926755880034304 Saw that...I expected that chair to spin all the way around Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angus Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 2 hours ago, HoarfrostHubb said: Saw that...I expected that chair to spin all the way around Not that much swinging but was on the Sublette chair at JH a few years back and got caught above the the cliff band for an extended period in high winds, we were swinging probably 60-70 degrees. We were one of the last chairs loaded and the winds were howling...it was pretty disconcerting. My then- HS-aged son was not a happy camper. We just hung on very, very tightly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 Im heading out to mighty Otis Ridge on Sunday. Never skied all the trails before. The two natural expert ones are now opened with the new snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongBeachSurfFreak Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 PF and anyone with inside info. Stratton was essentially closed today. Just running the magic carpet. Then that broke. i get it. I was just wondering what’s everyone’s take for tomorrow? Is this a region wide thing? My buddy siting right next to me is on the ski patrol here and he said this has never happened before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 I just read the Cannon, Loon and Waterville ski/weather reports for Saturday. Really no headlines or mention of extremely cold conditions. Lots of talk about an awesome weekend coming after all the new snow. Waterville in the written section did say it will be very cold and prepare for that. I was surprised Cannon talked about what a great weekend coming up. Meanwhile on the National Weather Service said this weekends cold and wind will make it the coldest weekend in a decade in the White Mountains. I saw a big disconnect... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 4 hours ago, LongBeachSurfFreak said: PF and anyone with inside info. Stratton was essentially closed today. Just running the magic carpet. Then that broke. i get it. I was just wondering what’s everyone’s take for tomorrow? Is this a region wide thing? My buddy siting right next to me is on the ski patrol here and he said this has never happened before. One of the main lifts at Wachusett was cranky today and kept conking out...they had it running at a crawl and it still stopped often. It was the one my son was working at. He was not sure what was wrong but my guess is the wind and cold were effecting it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongBeachSurfFreak Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 10 hours ago, HoarfrostHubb said: One of the main lifts at Wachusett was cranky today and kept conking out...they had it running at a crawl and it still stopped often. It was the one my son was working at. He was not sure what was wrong but my guess is the wind and cold were effecting it. Everything is shut down again. Lovely. They may open later but no guarantee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 1 hour ago, LongBeachSurfFreak said: Everything is shut down again. Lovely. They may open later but no guarantee. Based on twitter it seems to be wind holds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professional Lurker Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 Just got back from berkshire east. Cold and windy, with maybe 30 cars in the lot at 10am. I was honestly surprised they weren't busier. I mean... if somebody was hell-bent on making some turns today, why would they head north where there would be more elevation, winds, cold, and lift wind holds? I feel horrible for the people who booked this weekend just to ski the bottom half of a bigger hill. Btw, that video is some scary sh!t. I've seen videos of chairs swinging wildly like that, but never with skis dangling beneath them! Sent from my SM-G920P using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongBeachSurfFreak Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 4 hours ago, Professional Lurker said: Just got back from berkshire east. Cold and windy, with maybe 30 cars in the lot at 10am. I was honestly surprised they weren't busier. I mean... if somebody was hell-bent on making some turns today, why would they head north where there would be more elevation, winds, cold, and lift wind holds? I feel horrible for the people who booked this weekend just to ski the bottom half of a bigger hill. Btw, that video is some scary sh!t. I've seen videos of chairs swinging wildly like that, but never with skis dangling beneath them! Sent from my SM-G920P using Tapatalk There are less then 100 people here at Stratton. It’s open to mid mountain with one lift running. That’s all they need. The trees are great with all the blown in snow. But overall it’s insane. I haven’t heard wind roar through trees like this morning since sandy on Long Island. Looking forward to tomorrow and hoping the winds die down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angus Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 Skiing at Cranmore today, sunshine, no wind, comfortable temps with face mask on and great views of Presidentials. Good coverage (wind buffeted) in woods with hard packed groomers...not bad at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radarman Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 I would expect tomorrow to be a pretty sweet day in much of New England, particularly on the spine of the Greens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongBeachSurfFreak Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 Yesterday/Sunday was a fantastic blue bird day. As empty as you will ever see a Sunday with good conditions. A little hard packed on the groomers but plenty of powder on the sides and in the trees. Overall very happy I made the trip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amarshall Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 I was thinking of heading to Sugarloaf Friday night. What do you think about their chances for snow? I don't want to go if its a massive ice storm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 16 minutes ago, amarshall said: I was thinking of heading to Sugarloaf Friday night. What do you think about their chances for snow? I don't want to go if its a massive ice storm Not looking good. Hopefully this trends back colder...but the recent model runs are not encouraging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 Shut em all down... Really too bad since the conditions are just amazing. We went last night for a little bit and the snow was in prime shape Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitman Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 9 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said: Not looking good. Hopefully this trends back colder...but the recent model runs are not encouraging. fair to assume the same prognosis for northern VT? fwiw-both snowforecast.com and snow-forecast.com were showing big snows for saturday as of this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 53 minutes ago, Hitman said: fair to assume the same prognosis for northern VT? fwiw-both snowforecast.com and snow-forecast.com were showing big snows for saturday as of this morning. N VT may "escape" with a lot of ice and less rain...it's still possible this maybe trend back colder and its more snow up there. Hopefully that is the case but right now the trends are bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitman Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 1 hour ago, ORH_wxman said: N VT may "escape" with a lot of ice and less rain...it's still possible this maybe trend back colder and its more snow up there. Hopefully that is the case but right now the trends are bad. thanks for the info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radarman Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 Some wind scoured aspects at Killington but where it had blown in was really exceptional. Tomorrow should be another good one with everything softening, today was unadulterated winter snow. Big Dipper and the adjacent woods skiers left was the run of the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 4 minutes ago, radarman said: Some wind scoured aspects at Killington but where it had blown in was really exceptional. Tomorrow should be another good one with everything softening, today was unadulterated winter snow. Big Dipper and the adjacent woods skiers left was the run of the day. Nice AK Pete and Pete survive unscathed? No blood on the snow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Miser Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 Not a skiing topic but curious just the same: What is the smallest dept of snow that people have gone snow shoeing in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radarman Posted January 11, 2018 Share Posted January 11, 2018 1 hour ago, Cold Miser said: Not a skiing topic but curious just the same: What is the smallest dept of snow that people have gone snow shoeing in? If the snowshoes do anything then use em if you want to say you used em. Could be 4" on a wet pack or 12" of fluff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted January 11, 2018 Share Posted January 11, 2018 2 hours ago, Cold Miser said: Not a skiing topic but curious just the same: What is the smallest dept of snow that people have gone snow shoeing in? We went one day last February during the torch and in the woods, some places had a couple of feet of snow and some was almost bare. We snowshoed anyway. Uber sweaty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Miser Posted January 11, 2018 Share Posted January 11, 2018 5 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said: We went one day last February during the torch and in the woods, some places had a couple of feet of snow and some was almost bare. We snowshoed anyway. Uber sweaty The most I ever shoed in was about 36 to 48 in the Adirondacks. Old school wide-ass beaver tail looking weaved shoes. Was un real. Was up there snow mobiling and taking snow off the house roof. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amarshall Posted January 11, 2018 Share Posted January 11, 2018 Seems like too iffy a forecast for a 6 hr ride to Sugarloaf Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted January 11, 2018 Share Posted January 11, 2018 3 hours ago, amarshall said: Seems like too iffy a forecast for a 6 hr ride to Sugarloaf Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk Agree. Sugarloaf is a Feb - April mountain anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angus Posted January 11, 2018 Share Posted January 11, 2018 44 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said: Agree. Sugarloaf is a Feb - April mountain anyway. More like March-April!! I have opportunity to go up there next weekend (20th) - and need to decide this weekend so I'll probably be asking the same question. Favorite mountain when the wind isn't howling and it isn't well below zero... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongBeachSurfFreak Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 A complete and unmitigated disaster at Stratton right now. I can’t stress that enough. A great season just took 20 steps back right to November. Going to need a fresh start to fix this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 A complete and unmitigated disaster at Stratton right now. I can’t stress that enough. A great season just took 20 steps back right to November. Going to need a fresh start to fix this Yeah that is awful. They have been decimated. We will have to see the final verdict up north. Sent from my VS995 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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