moe ghoul Posted January 28, 2009 Report Share Posted January 28, 2009 We're planning a 4-5 day trip to Jay Peak to replace the Banff trip. Looks like they're getting good snow recently. Anybody skied up there in the past coupla seasons? Stash stories? Never skied there, so I'm stoked to check out the good pow and glades. Looks like they'll accumulate almost 2 ft of fresh by tomorrow nite. Some freeheeler friend of ours rec'd the Sno Line Lodge, close to the base and has a cool pub inside as well. Anyone ever stay there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Law Posted January 28, 2009 Report Share Posted January 28, 2009 Jay is the place for when it snows from what i've heard things are really good right now. Trees are excellent. Stashes - Only one I'm really giving up is Big Jay At the top of Timbuktu glades on the right boundary you will see a "gate" go through the gate and find a place to drop. The closer you are to the line the easier it is to get back to the lift, you can ditch the lift and run it down to 242. People will pick you up and take you back to Jay. DO NOT SKI THE CLEAR CUT, big jay was only opened three or so weeks ago and they will close it again if people don't let that area be. Off the left of the Boneventure chair almost directly under the lift is a really nice line that will stay fresh until noonish. The line is semi obvious the entrance is not. Beaver Pond Glades are normally the last to get tracked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moe ghoul Posted January 28, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2009 Jay is the place for when it snows from what i've heard things are really good right now. Trees are excellent. Stashes - Only one I'm really giving up is Big Jay At the top of Timbuktu glades on the right boundary you will see a "gate" go through the gate and find a place to drop. The closer you are to the line the easier it is to get back to the lift, you can ditch the lift and run it down to 242. People will pick you up and take you back to Jay. DO NOT SKI THE CLEAR CUT, big jay was only opened three or so weeks ago and they will close it again if people don't let that area be. Off the left of the Boneventure chair almost directly under the lift is a really nice line that will stay fresh until noonish. The line is semi obvious the entrance is not. Beaver Pond Glades are normally the last to get tracked. Duly noted, thanx. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moe ghoul Posted January 29, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2009 Trip is booked for next Tues-Sat. Discount tix, bfast, room with 2 beds. 99/pp. Closest non jay lodge lodge to the base........BRING IT THE F ON!!!!!!!! MORE SNOOOOOOOW!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backcountry_rider Posted January 29, 2009 Report Share Posted January 29, 2009 Hey, new guy here... I used to live pretty close to Jay Peak. Don't know if you did a ski and stay thing with the tix included...if not, check out some local gas stations on your way. Once you get within a couple hours a lot of the convenience stores will give you a discount pass for one day if you tell them you're local and ask about it. We got a couple passes for $32 a pop last winter. If you decide to hit the OB section on the back side try not to go during the middle of the day...I hit it around 1 with my cousin and we couldn't get anyone to pick us up for about a half hour (might've been because we were riders. VT loves their skis). If you want to go check out some cool nightlife, you can make it into Sherbrooke in CA in about an hour and a half. Always something crazy going on there if you look hard enough (or you can just hit one of their bars). Bring your passport and leave your gear or you'll be in customs for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moe ghoul Posted January 29, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2009 My buddy is banned from CA and we're taking his car with the breatholizer ignition gizmo. Snowline lodge is only a few short yards from the Jay bars, so we plan to park and walk once the libations commence. We usually load up a car bar with beer/wine and liquor as a plan B and cut down on the bar tabs. Thanks for the tips. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moe ghoul Posted January 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 From Jay's site: 20 inches from Tuesday night's-Thursday's storm. Snow started to fly again during the overnight hours, so another 2-3 inches this morning. That's 23" of new snow in the last couple of days. By all accounts, conditions are fantastic - powder all 'round. We'll see another couple/few inches from light snow and flurries leading into what is shaping up to be a phenomenal weekend. Can it get any better? Hell yeah!!........another foot or 2 by Tues/Wed....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Law Posted January 30, 2009 Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 From Jay's site: 20 inches from Tuesday night's-Thursday's storm. Snow started to fly again during the overnight hours, so another 2-3 inches this morning. That's 23" of new snow in the last couple of days. By all accounts, conditions are fantastic - powder all 'round. We'll see another couple/few inches from light snow and flurries leading into what is shaping up to be a phenomenal weekend. Can it get any better? Hell yeah!!........another foot or 2 by Tues/Wed....... You may already have a deal with your lodging but just in case Jay 2 for 1 http://www.ishotmattlucas.com/pkil1/coupons.pdf You can just print it out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moe ghoul Posted January 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 You may already have a deal with your lodging but just in case Jay 2 for 1 http://www.ishotmattlucas.com/pkil1/coupons.pdf You can just print it out We get that Passport card deal from the lodge, but I'm gonna print out 4 coupons to bring along, just in case it's a better deal. Too lazy to look up the terms and ticket costs. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moe ghoul Posted February 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2009 Mag helmet cam from Jay on Saturday. http://vimeo.com/3049632 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moe ghoul Posted February 3, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2009 Hitting the road in 20 minutes, everybody have a good week, and fer crissakes, go ski and ride. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moe ghoul Posted February 8, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2009 Jay TR: Tuesday: Long azz ride to get there and back, about 9 hours. Checked in at the Snow Line Lodge, old school motelish set up, clean, lotsa knick knacks from Germany and Austria. Basic bfast of juice, coffee, and one of the following: eggs/bacon/toast; french toast/bacon; pancakes/sausage. Downside: water smelled like sulphur, so they prolly have a bad well. Nothing worse than brushing your teeth or taking a shower with fart water. I ended up using bottled water for oral hygiene. Had steak au poivre dinner and beers/wine at the Jay Village Inn, and crashed by 11. No new snow, temps in the single digits and getting colder. Wed: Up early, ate bfast and booted up at the Tram base lodge. I think it was around 4 degrees at the base, partly sunny. 0 crowds. We rarely saw anyone once we were skiing. Took the first tram up and spent the morning checking out that side of the mountain. It's generally colder and windier, and the forecast thru Friday was for colder weather. Snow was mostly packed powder, groomed out except for Poma Line which was bumped. Glades were tracked with untracked to be found on the flatter pitches like Beaver Pond and Andre's. If you aren't an experienced glade skier/rider these are good places for the less experienced. Jay offers something gladewise for all skill levels. We headed in for lunch around 12, bag lunched it (I brought a cooler up with soups, chili, etc) and then spent the afternoon on the Stateside, riding the Bonaventure and Jet lifts and pretty much doing U.N. ( Bumps) Upper Can Am to Lift Line (bumps) and making runs thru Kitz Woods and Bonaventure glades. We drank and ate at The Belfry for dinner, which is a great place to hang out if you go up there. Thurs/Fri: F'in cold and EVEN COLDER! Sadly, our luck with "where we go, we bring the snow" ran out. Other than some man made on Jet for a coupla days, we only got a few natural flakes while we were there. The top of the tram on both days was registering temps in the -10 to -20 range with fairly gusty winds on Friday. We both got white spots (frostbite symptom) on the cheekbones on our last run down on Friday. We traded off the warmth of the Tram and stuck to the Bonaventure and Jet lifts, skiing the runs and glades on that side. We met an instructor who let us tag along thru Timbuktu, Vertigo and a few other glade runs that were above our paygrade without a 3rd party native familiar with the hill. Dinner was at The Belfry both nites ranging from steak, burgers, broiled bleu shrooms and various apps. I developed a taste for Switchback and pretty much drank that for the duration. Sat: Sun was out, about 4 degrees and warming as we checked out and headed up to the Stateside lodge. It's the preferable place to park and boot, less crowded and on colder windy days that side of the mountain is better protected. The joint was hopping with Canucks and the lifts got pretty swamped by around noon. We skied thru lunch to take advantage of the lull in the crowd and since our legs we're pretty shot we stuck to the groomers, Jet had been closed for snowmaking for 3 days and re-opened Sat. morning, so it was a great speed and carve run to wind down a fun trip. Got home around 11PM last nite. Conditions: Packed powder and super packed powder on a few headwalls, but virtually no ice, and only a few bare spots scraped off in the chutes and woods. Occasional powder shots were in the woods. Only a few pix that I'll post up when I get them emailed to me. It was too cold to pull a camera out, take off a glove, focus, etc. and with overcast skies the lighting was lousy. It was prolly the coldest ski trip I've been on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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