Angus Posted April 9, 2019 Share Posted April 9, 2019 Sugarbush has announced they will close for week and then reopen for the 5/5 weekend. Wildcat is making lots of noise that they will stay open but they do that most years but then melt out at bottom. Sugarloaf ends up having the same problem with sustaining a snow path to the lower lifts. I was just impressed by that emphatic tweet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 What a day. Bluebird and despite the temperatures, the snow in the sun softened into perfect corn. The top inch or two was just fast but soft peel away corn snow. 117" snow depth at the summit stake. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skivt2 Posted April 12, 2019 Author Share Posted April 12, 2019 Killington is trying for June and I would not be surprised to be skiing june 1st at all there. Superstar is as big as I’ve ever seen it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted April 12, 2019 Share Posted April 12, 2019 Wachusett will be open for a few hours Saturday, which is weird Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkO Posted April 12, 2019 Share Posted April 12, 2019 Tuckerman will be skiable in July. Well, 500+/- vertical feet anyway. Aren't many years you can ski the East in summer. Skied it Sunday. Unfortunate avalanche death there today (technically Raymond Cataract) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angus Posted April 12, 2019 Share Posted April 12, 2019 I echo PF's comments about Sugarloaf on Thursday. Just 'wow.' The base is amazingly deep. First time skiing Bracket Basin extensively which I was a skeptic of...fantastic. not a rock to be seen on natural trails like Winter's Way and Bubblecuffer. comfortable temps, fantastic snow, amazing blue skies. skied from opening bell until close with short 10 minute break, never waited to get on lift. smiles everywhere on mountain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted April 12, 2019 Share Posted April 12, 2019 16 hours ago, Skivt2 said: Killington is trying for June and I would not be surprised to be skiing june 1st at all there. Superstar is as big as I’ve ever seen it. It's a publicity ploy, of course, and I don't blame them a bit - short term loss for future gain. I've wondered why Sugarbush never got into the game, as the summit lift on the old Glen Ellen starts at over 3,000' and those upper trails face N to NE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radarman Posted April 12, 2019 Share Posted April 12, 2019 Killington is skiing really good today, and I expect tomorrow should be excellent as well. A lot of snow left, woods are in peak Spring form. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angus Posted April 12, 2019 Share Posted April 12, 2019 Tamarack makes good observation re: Glen Ellen. The area that could go longest - with all things equal - would be Sugarloaf. The Skyline lift services almost 1,500' of vertical with the loading base somewhere around 2,500'. Yesterday, I went to the base area only once during the day to try and find something for lunch...didn't...the top three lifts - King Pine, Sky Line and Timberline have a ski areas worth of vertical and equivalent terrain. Sugarloaf always closes with a ton of terrain open - just no one showing up to make it economical. I have taken a day in early May for the past 4 or 5 years to ski Killington's Superstar and it is alot of fun but multiple days of skiing a handful and finally one bumped up trail would get tedious after a couple of days IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted April 12, 2019 Share Posted April 12, 2019 1 hour ago, Angus said: Tamarack makes good observation re: Glen Ellen. The area that could go longest - with all things equal - would be Sugarloaf. The Skyline lift services almost 1,500' of vertical with the loading base somewhere around 2,500'. Yesterday, I went to the base area only once during the day to try and find something for lunch...didn't...the top three lifts - King Pine, Sky Line and Timberline have a ski areas worth of vertical and equivalent terrain. Sugarloaf always closes with a ton of terrain open - just no one showing up to make it economical. I have taken a day in early May for the past 4 or 5 years to ski Killington's Superstar and it is alot of fun but multiple days of skiing a handful and finally one bumped up trail would get tedious after a couple of days IMO. Only big mountain I've skied was Glen Ellen - a ski week back in 1971 (half price in January, only $22.50 ) when I learned parallel, then a Fri-Sat visit the next year, partly because all the beautiful pics I took in '71 failed because the shutter spring had broken - didn't find out until all the black slides came back from the developer. Started on the slopes when I lived in NNJ - great Gorge/Vernon Valley, have no idea if or in what form those 2 exist today. Have not skied since my broken leg in Jan 1981 - passenger in pickup that went head-on with a log truck near the Maine-Quebec frontier, results predictable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitman Posted April 12, 2019 Share Posted April 12, 2019 3 hours ago, tamarack said: It's a publicity ploy, of course, and I don't blame them a bit - short term loss for future gain. I've wondered why Sugarbush never got into the game, as the summit lift on the old Glen Ellen starts at over 3,000' and those upper trails face N to NE. Mt Ellen is closed already. From a pure skiing perspective, the summit lift to the top is the perfect spring skiing venue especially with the mid station lodge at the base of that lift. But all the infrastructure, condos, lodges, bar are at Lincoln peak, so that’s why they favor operations there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitman Posted April 12, 2019 Share Posted April 12, 2019 1 minute ago, tamarack said: Only big mountain I've skied was Glen Ellen - a ski week back in 1971 (half price in January, only $22.50 ) when I learned parallel, then a Fri-Sat visit the next year, partly because all the beautiful pics I took in '71 failed because the shutter spring had broken - didn't find out until all the black slides came back from the developer. Started on the slopes when I lived in NNJ - great Gorge/Vernon Valley, have no idea if or in what form those 2 exist today. Have not skied since my broken leg in Jan 1981 - passenger in pickup that went head-on with a log truck near the Maine-Quebec frontier, results predictable. Great gorge Vernon valley is now known as mountain creek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angus Posted April 12, 2019 Share Posted April 12, 2019 LOL. I almost broke my legs and other body parts when I was a kid at Great Gorge/Vernon Valley riding the alpine slide in the mid-70's when I went there with my cousins! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitman Posted April 12, 2019 Share Posted April 12, 2019 34 minutes ago, Angus said: LOL. I almost broke my legs and other body parts when I was a kid at Great Gorge/Vernon Valley riding the alpine slide in the mid-70's when I went there with my cousins! Everyone got hurt on that thing. There’s actually a funny documentary about action park available online and there was a movie based on it that came out last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted April 12, 2019 Share Posted April 12, 2019 49 minutes ago, Angus said: LOL. I almost broke my legs and other body parts when I was a kid at Great Gorge/Vernon Valley riding the alpine slide in the mid-70's when I went there with my cousins! VV had a weird layout, as the easiest top-to-bottom trail did an S-turn with the two main intermediates crossing/re-crossing it. Grooming was sometimes less than ideal - most painful fall I ever had while skiing came on that beginner trail. Came to a series of steep-sided linear "moguls" running at right angles to the trail with skiers close at hand on both sides and happened to be on the steepest-highest part of those "waves." About halfway thru them, both heels popped simultaneously and I crashed chest-first into the upper side of a wave. Nearly ripped the chamois shirt I was wearing in half, splitting it right across the seams. 1st of several very painful rib-area injuries I've sustained, teaching me that there was 4-6 weeks of pain incoming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwt3650 Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 Anyone have any thoughts on jay vs. sugarloaf early next week? I heard the jay glades are still loaded with snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radarman Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 Something about Devil's Fiddle in the spring... The outcroppings have long since melted off, but the big swoop turns on the untouched soft snow were simply divine. Boot pack laps on the top yesterday with a path down requiring only short forays into the woods. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 21 hours ago, bwt3650 said: Anyone have any thoughts on jay vs. sugarloaf early next week? I heard the jay glades are still loaded with snow. Sugarloaf got a foot of snow this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angus Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 Drove up to Cannon today. Day started with clouds and summit socked in but improved throughout day. They lost a ton of snow over last 6 days - 3 to 4' according to friend I skied with. Last nites rain & wind really ate up pack. They will not be open next weekend. Lots of bare patches and ice flows on lower half of mountain. Fine day of skiing with friends and sure beat finishing my taxes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skivt2 Posted April 14, 2019 Author Share Posted April 14, 2019 On 4/12/2019 at 12:34 PM, tamarack said: It's a publicity ploy, of course, and I don't blame them a bit - short term loss for future gain. I've wondered why Sugarbush never got into the game, as the summit lift on the old Glen Ellen starts at over 3,000' and those upper trails face N to NE. It’s not a publicity ploy for those who ski it. Killington sells a lot of spring passes. The Umbrella bar is rocking with live music etc. in May. They go to Friday-Sunday and a hard core crew of bump skiers ski it every day they are open until they close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 14 hours ago, Angus said: Drove up to Cannon today. Day started with clouds and summit socked in but improved throughout day. They lost a ton of snow over last 6 days - 3 to 4' according to friend I skied with. Last nites rain & wind really ate up pack. They will not be open next weekend. Lots of bare patches and ice flows on lower half of mountain. Fine day of skiing with friends and sure beat finishing my taxes! Too bad, I was considering skiing there on Easter weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NW_of_GYX Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 SR still loaded with snow. Basically 100% open this weekend except areas they temporarily closed for mama bear and cubs who woke up last week! . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 9 hours ago, Skivt2 said: It’s not a publicity ploy for those who ski it. Killington sells a lot of spring passes. The Umbrella bar is rocking with live music etc. in May. They go to Friday-Sunday and a hard core crew of bump skiers ski it every day they are open until they close. Completely agree - beaucoup snow and no lift lines. However, I'd be surprised if places competing for latest closing make a profit between April 15 and when the lifts close for good. The real payout is the reputation gained. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwt3650 Posted April 15, 2019 Share Posted April 15, 2019 Thinking about jay peak tmrw and heard maybe 6”..anybody have any thoughts on the wind forecast for tmrw and what the odds are of wind holds are? Not sure what jay shuts them down at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NECT Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 Made it to Sugarloaf Tuesday night (the 16th). A few flurries were in the air. The weather was epic on Wednesday. Clear blue sky, hardly any wind, and by noon or so, conditions were great up top (had softened enough) and the bottom was really soft, but not impossible slushy. Decided not to buy a ticket this morning, as forecast was a bit suspect (incoming clouds, showers/flurries and wind) and it looked crispy up top. Turned out to be the right call as the winds came in after noon, and they pretty much shut down all the lifts by the time things were softening up. My legs were pretty sore from the previous day anyway....looking down Bubble Cuffer (at least I think that's what this was). All natural snow trail. Incredible cover for mid-April. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 Closing weekend coming up for Stowe...it does seem time after a long winter. There will be plenty of earned turns over the next 2-3 weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 Just checked and saw that Snowbird has measured 657" of snow this year. Looks like 690" is their record season. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted May 25, 2019 Share Posted May 25, 2019 Season extended to August at Mammoth in CA: https://ktla.com/2019/05/24/mammoth-mountain-records-snowiest-may-on-record-and-theres-a-full-week-left-in-the-month/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skivt2 Posted May 26, 2019 Author Share Posted May 26, 2019 Killington still going strong 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitman Posted May 26, 2019 Share Posted May 26, 2019 9 hours ago, Skivt2 said: Killington still going strong So is mrg, apparently for some. https://www.tetongravity.com/video/ski/mad-river-glens-diehards-cant-stop-wont-stop 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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