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We left a little after 3pm and there were fairly long liftlines, maybe the traffic and the afternoon sun took it's toll. Sorry for getting your hopes up, it should be good again today after a grooming.

The only problem with the bailey is that it's a double and I was with two children who though very good skiers are not happy riding the lift alone, any solution for that one? That's what sent us home. The fact that the new snow was preserved better for the saturday crowd doesn't really help when you are a sunday-friday pass holder and have made the trek through the snow to get there Friday afternoon. It's got nothing to do with caution, it was about making it easier to get open on saturday when the bigger day ticket crowds arrived.

Just got back from CB, great conditions today, the fresh snow from Friday still giving a great top surface and didn't really deteriorate much through the day. Liftlines were quite bad and for some reason they didn't open any of the quieter "back up" lifts like the marc anthony or glen lifts, but whatever, it was a great day today. Coverage is still good, temps for the next week don't look too threatening, could they make it to April?

Just come back from fantastic conditions at CB, but they have shut down nearly the entire hill because of the snow!!!!! They now have one lift running (The Bailey, a slow double) which really limits you to a couple of runs without hiking at both ends. The poor guy (Mark) turning people away from the quad was embarrassed to be having to tell people they were shutting it down because they are worried about the snow sticking to the chairs, even my kids were dissin' such a lame excuse. Amazingly nice conditions though, 6-8 inches of creamy poe The snow still coming down hard, this could be a massive dump by the time it's finished.

3-4" and rising here (5 miles to CB), weather forecast for stroudsburg just changed to 5-8" today + 10-15" tonight!!!!!!!!

Need some input from the more travelled amongst you: Me and 2 friends (both skiers, I'm a boarder) are heading out to Utah at the end of the month. Having been out there last year, I really have to do Brighton and PC again but cant decide on the other two days. Both the skiers are very experienced whereas I would describe myself as a high intermediate / low expert but I'm really not looking for super-steeps and moguls. I'm concerned that the 'bird maybe a little "expert" for me, and I've heard not too good reviews on the canyons. We'll be there Friday through Monday so weekend crowds are a consideration. OK, let have those opinions.....

Does this thread have any value at all? Bottom line is that CB does close down list / trails for some very "conservative" reasons, has done so for several seasons and will continue to do so. For those of us that actually ski / ride there this might be reason for occasional comment or complaint but it's not going to change anything. For those that don't ride there, it's just pointless bickering and sh!t-stirring. It adds nothing to the value of this board and just degenerates into the personal attacks and misinformed crap that is rife in this thread. All the ski areas will be closed soon, make the most of it while you can.

when are you leaving and where are you going? I'll be heading out on the 29th for 4 days, staying in SLC, planning on doing brighton, snowbird, PC and the Canyons.

Hope you have better luck tomorrow, the snow reports look great for you out there this week.

Sorry to hear your first day was a bust, but couldn't you have gotten some chains?

Oh well, conditions were so nice last night I could have stayed till midnight, it's just really dissapointing when there's no crowds, great conditions and then they shut it all down. BTW Ski911, just looking at your signature, if you are only faster due to physics you must have way more mass than the rest of us.

Interesting view, my experiences with the ski schools at both mountains (through my kids) have been the opposite. Blue seemed to have the better staff more focussed on getting my kids progressing, CB seems to be full of kids doing it for a free pass and running it like day care rather than a teaching program.

How long can it take to go ceasars, marc anthony, honeymoon lane? It's one run with two potential places you may have strap out and skate for 30 yards if you're really crap / unlucky. It's not as if you would need another lift ride to get back over. There is no NEED to shut down this lift before 9.30 - 9.40 for a 10pm closing. I think it was a personal attack, just to get me back for saying their snow was "clumpy" last week...

I didn't make it to the canyons but PC is great. Utah is starting to get dumped on regularly at the moment, march seems to be the best time to be there for last few years. Try not to eat on the mountain too much, PC can be veeerrry expensive.

Conditions tonight were really good on nearly all the trails except the flatter stuff which was kind of scraped and a little rutted. Asp was phenomenal, Hump, marjies and Cliffy all excellent. Then they closed the east side down at 9pm, WTF. IT WAS 35 DEGREES, not raining, snowing , sleeting and I'm sure there was no forecast for a plague of frogs.

yes, I've had the Level gloves with the "biomex" inserts and other then the fact that the gloves (with the liners that the inserts attach to) are too warm in almost all conditions, and the breathable membrane has broken away from the inner in several fingers so they can be a pain to get off and back on, they have been pretty good. Bear in mind that I've had these since I began boarding and hence to alot of falls on my wrists in the first few weeks, no damage done so I have some confidence that these are worthwhile. In a big fall I'm not convinced they would do too much to prevent over-flexing the joint, but the seem to spread / dissipate the load well and offer some flexion support. I don't notice the inserts when riding in them, though I tend to use them less nowadays due to the warmth issue mentioned above.

1) I've always thought there were a high number of boarders at Killington but then I mostly get there at the weekend, maybe more to do with the local weekday crowd. 2) not noticed this at weekends but you maybe right Obviously I would have to agree with the latter part of 3) 4), 5) 6) dont spend much time in the lodges and don't care if they have a fire, if you eat on the hill you expect to get fleeced. if you think K is bad, don't ever go to Park City. 7) They have heaters? 8) I don't know your Dad, but I agree about the crossover, it's worse on a board so you just have to try and carry enough speed down the first hill.

On the weather channel conditions report a few days ago the listing for Blue was "wet" These are all skiers, but hey, you take what you can get.....

I'm bringing 4 guys from work up tomorrow night, one of them is a season pass holder at Mountain Creek and he has yet to use his pass this year conditions reports are only valid for the hour or so in which they were thought of, most times by the time they are posted they are out of date, the only time they are going to be really useful is if the conditions have been repeatedly good / bad for several days, of if they have reall gone downhill (no pun intended) with no chance of real repair (rocks showing through, really icy, etc). SkiCB should contiue his reports, I'll add my comments when I can.

Only if by BC you mean British Columbia, no chance Bear Creek will be open that late. anyone that skis/rides glades without a helmet probably already has brain damage so probably has little to lose.

maybe they could just clear a load of trees and pretend they're going to make some new trails and then just leave them bare while they push more people down the same trails with their swanky new 6-pack.

There was definitely a changeover in conditions yesterday compared to the day before, moving from the continued cold to the thaw-freeze cycle of warmer days but still below freezing nights. Yesterday in particular suffered from some light rain during the previous evening which didn't help but conditions are likely to stay pretty much like this for a couple of weeks until it stops freezing at all and it all turns to slush for a week or two before they close. Some serious grooming might help soften it up by making more surface "granular", any comments from the CB snow people? I can understand that the conditions last night were very bad for riding park, especially as Rhodo is essentially going to be the same as raceway from an exposure perspective, landings on jumps must have been really nasty.

Steezewich, to be fair to SkiCB there was stiil a reasonable amount of what could be consider packed powder (or very fine frozen granular) on quite a few of the trails this evening, along with some hardpack (slick and fast but not really ice) and some genuine ice spots showing through, notably on Cliffy, Raceway and Asp. Cliffy was freakin 'orrible tonight and so was big pocono, frozen solid and clumpy (bet they never use that description in the official reports). Raceway and Pharaoh were quite nice, tut's and nile were very good. Tonight was actually really enjoyable after 6, when the rest of the people disappeared, I had a couple of friends come up from work that don't ski CB very often and they both loved it despite the "mixed" conditions.

first hand report from the slopes this morning: Can only comment on the east side, didn't have too much time today and the conditions weren't exactly encouraging. frozen cord' everywhere, with lots of pebbles and ridges. Not bad considering the fact we had some rain and a below freezing night. I'm sure it will be better once it softens up a bit. Cliffy was pretty bad, with real ice showing through in the middle of the headwall, everywhere else was just frozen groomed granular. Pharaoh was the better run on that side, with some nice surface still on the turn and down the drop to bactrian. Nile, raceway etc were all much of the same, wait a while till it melts a bit and it'll be better. I'll be back up tonight.

I'm not sure this would apply given my visa status, and I have ton's of vacation time saved up for this anyway. My boss is being really cool about it aswell so I won't burn all my vacation days when I can do some work from home.