Ski2Live Live2Ski
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Will hit JF Sat if they get 100% open (which seems unlikely). Otherwise will hit Roundtop which is, and will be a bit warmer. Gonna be too cold up at Hunter at open. And if you aren't at these places at open on a weekend this year, with all the extra Epic passes sold, it is not worth the trip.
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Wonder what is going on with this place. They report 16" of fresh snow this week and they have only 8 of 34 trails open, which includes none of their "advanced intermediate", "advanced" or "expert" terrain. If they can't do better than that after a big natural snowfall in late January, they have basically given up.
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It was a site but I rarely take out my phone amd take off my gloves on cold (Sunday) or snowy (Monday) days
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There were some real steep double blacks, some pleasant long winding trails, 3 very nice glades with well spaced trees at various degrees of incline from blue to black - a highlight, and a bunch of bike trails through the woods. With almost everything skiable on our day 2 it had enough for a satisfying couple days. The vertical is not huge and the lifts are all slow, but with the great conditions we got Monday it was a delight and had more to it to explore than my kids legs had stamina for deep somewhat heavy snow. And my back got a bit beat up lifting them out of it when they fell and got their skis caught in it.
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I wasn't asked to describe trails. I was asked what we got at the cafeteria.
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Where did you get the idea this was free food? We bought it at the Mt. It was really bad except for the onion rings.
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We were in line like 820-8:25 and lifts started at 830. Really nobody there at start of day. Got first tracks on trail we chose first. Roads were pretty hairy getting there. Was glad for SUV with new winter tires. Sampled Chili (small, flavorless except too salty), Nachos (nothing but wiz), Grilled Cheese (small), Mozarella sticks (small), Soft pretzel (hot and fresh but too salty). Redeeming order was onion rings which were some of best I ever had. Fortunately also had excellent Hampton Inn breakfast buffets and found a real nice Asian fusion place for one dinner. Other dinner so so at Wegman's.
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Yeah hard to believe it was the same mountain today. Everything had beautiful conditions, every lift running, no lines, every trail and glade skiable. They seemed to have a "please poach" policy. Impressed my girls motivated early enough for us to be on the 17th chair. Their cafeteria food is definitely subpar though. Beautifully clean roads all the way home. Made it door to door in 3.5 hrs.
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The trails off chairs and 4 and 5 had better conditions. Nice to see there was some coverage on the closed trails including the glades, so the 8-12 they are forecasting for tonight (followed by 1-3 tomorrow).should get everything open.
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Trails on main face all a hard pack surface today. Parking lot packed and a hazardous sheet of ice, but lidt lines only 3-4 minutes max. Gonna venture to other parts of Mt and see if we can find better snow. Should be way different by tomorrow morning.
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Gonna be skiing Greek for the first time today and tomorrow. Looks like they are in a sweet spot for the Sunday night storm and thinking that it will clear out of here for the drive home Monday night earlier that it clears out of places East, plus the drive home being almost all interstate will make it easier to get home.
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I was at Hunter today. As nuts as the lines for the lifts from the base were after 915 or so, the F lift was never more than 8 minutes for a single and the North Face lift under a minute through 1pm. I got 13 runs and 14k vertical in from 845-115 with a 45 minute break, and the only real bad line I waited in was about 25 minutes for the 6 pack after my break at about 11 am. I have had much more frustrating line days weekends at Blue where there aren't really many alternate lifts to turn to. Definitely a day tons of people would have come out with how bad holiday conditions would have been, the fresh snow in NY/NJ the day before, and rain forecast for tomorrow.
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Wound up at B.East instead of Magic yesterday, as Magic's lift to summit went down 2 hours after it opened the previous day. They had 5 low key runs open all with decent coverage and soft snow that turned to soft bumps by mid day. Delightful spring skiing. Had good weather at Jay on 30th, which had a good bit more open and nice conditions on the groomed runs, but had a good number of runs with thin cover and bare spots counted among open trails, and they were a chore to get down in places. Found a beautiful virtually untouched powdery run that was a highlight, but then required a significant hike to desired lift so we only did it once
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Jay forecast for Thurs
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What they had open definitely wasn't amazing. It is mostly known for its glades. But it was skiing in good conditions with zero lines over winter break with my kids.
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Now is the time I have to ski with the kids and I'm going for the best skiing we can get in now. Magic is supposed to open top, of they don't we will do B.east instead. Shawnee and Montage are blacked out this week and Greek Pean is 3 runs which would get old for 2 days. Don't believe it will rain at Jay. We skied snow there on Xmas when it was rain everywhere else.
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Heading back up north after a couple of work days. Likely hit West (en route stop to break up drive), Jay and Magic. Maybe more after that if Sat-Sun forecast clears up. Getting our money's worth out of IndyPass with 6 days from Dec 24-31. Just as glad to have an alternative to the Epic crowds on the holiday week. Only 2 Epic days so far - both at Hunter - but that should pay for itself out west in coming months.
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Glad to hear Hunter was rockin. Went north and did 2 days at Bolton Valley and 1 at Jay with kids. Limited terrain open at both, but zero lines and snow instead of rain on Xmas. Seemed like the best option on the IndyPass. Gonna work Monday and Tues and then head out for more turns weather permitting after that.
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Cause Liberty the ski area bites, as I was trying to explain
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Having spent about 2 hrs skiing every trail at Liberty once, on a day with perfect conditions, I assume he was talking about the concept and not the molehill. Maybe an anti-vaxxer. Slowest lift I've ever ridden to some of the dullest terrain I've ever skied. Fortunately it was only about a 30 minute detour on my way home from Whitetail. But really that was more time and effort that it is worth.
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Nice start Dan! 2 days at Hunter in so far for me. Hoping to over next 2 weeks hit Stowe and either Okemo or Snow on Epic; and Jay, Bolton Valley and maybe West on Indy.
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WTGAI
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Montage didn't open. Skipped skiing this weekend. Will get back on skis Dec 16-17 as taking Joy to NOLA next weekend.
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No Indy options closer than Greek Peak this weekend (which is further than I want to go for a day trip to limited terrain) so might take kids to JF or Hunter Sunday - though either is "off pass" for them. Or they may wait to start their skison in 2 weeks.
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12/3-12/5 weekend roll call thread.
Ski2Live Live2Ski replied to GrilledSteezeSandwich's topic in Blue Mountain
Not real likely I will hit Blue this year with both Epic and Indy passes. Expect I will use Indy with kids at either Shawnee or Montage Sunday for my day 2. Taking the following weekend off skiing to go to NOLA with Joy then likely start up skiing again somewhere on Epic Dec 15-16 and on Indy Dec 18-19
