NY/VT/NH skifari

[PSUFrankenstein]

28 minutes ago, tarponhead said:

Some of those glades look like off of wilderness? Bolton is a hoot. 1000 rabbit holes


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Yeah those were off of Wilderness.   The ones off the timberline lift were great too.   They got a ton of snow the past few days

[PSUFrankenstein]

More pics off the wilderness lift.  Steep ungroomed stuff was really fun, and a did few more tree runs

[PSUFrankenstein]

Then I went back to the base area and took the quad up...took cobrass trail over to timberline lift.  I think that was all natural snow so some rocks and stuff to avoid.  Great views too.  Ended my day with a few runs down Tattle tale, which was relatively steep but great snow, followed by a run down the trees next to it, think it was called Lost Boyz glades

 

Edited February 6, 2022 by PSUFly

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Nice report but I don’t understand why you drove from lake placid to Brattleboro and then back to Bolton valley.  You truly are a road warrior. 

[PSUFrankenstein]

5 minutes ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

Nice report but I don’t understand why you drove from lake placid to Brattleboro and then back to Bolton valley.  You truly are a road warrior. 

Yeah so my original plan was Magic Saturday, either Magic or Waterville valley Sunday and cannon Monday.  After magic got ice instead of snow, my plans changed and Waterville looks like pretty much all groomers so I hit Bolton Valley instead.   Whiteface and Bolton were both awesome so no complaints.  Drove by cannon tonight and that looks great too.  At least drive to Cannon tomorrow is like 10 minutes.  The drive from Whiteface to Brattleboro sucked though

[PSUFrankenstein]

Cannon...seems pretty cool but its pretty slick and windblown as of right now, visibility not great.  Lower stuff isn't too bad, bumps are soft. Heading over to the mittersill side in a bit.  Supposed to be some fun glades that I'm hoping will have good snow 

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[PSUFrankenstein]

Mittersill is much better than the front side.   Had to take 2 lifts to the summit, down an intermediate and then hike up this trail in the second pic

  Visibility from the summit in first pic 

[trackbiker]

Nice report. Check out the Zoomer lift if you haven't already. When Cannon gets windblown (which is often) the Zoomer area holds the snow better.

[antman12]

Tram open?

[PSUFrankenstein]

37 minutes ago, antman12 said:

Tram open?

Nope, only weekends.   

 

45 minutes ago, trackbiker said:

Nice report. Check out the Zoomer lift if you haven't already. When Cannon gets windblown (which is often) the Zoomer area holds the snow better.

Yeah did a few runs there this morning 

[PSUFrankenstein]

Mittersill glades (idiot's delight and candy land). Also a t bar ride and the race course which had nice snow

[PSUFrankenstein]

Those glades opened up to an intermediate trail.  Deep untracked powder on the skiers right side.  Hike back to the lift sucks but well worth it 

[Johnny Law]

Sick road trip and skiing road trips are my favorite.

Mittersill is super cool and Cannon is straight up old school EC skiing. Love the pictures, you can smell the pines and it looks like you nailed the timing. 

[PSUFrankenstein]

8 hours ago, Johnny Law said:

Sick road trip and skiing road trips are my favorite.

Mittersill is super cool and Cannon is straight up old school EC skiing. Love the pictures, you can smell the pines and it looks like you nailed the timing. 

Yeah great trip, I think around 1300 miles total.  The drive wasn't bad except driving through CT at rush hour tonight.  

Also, picked up a few beers

I'll share of course 

 

[tarponhead]

Yeah great trip, I think around 1300 miles total.  The drive wasn't bad except driving through CT at rush hour tonight.  

Avoid western Ct at all costs. Next time go up the thruway and cut over at Albany

Epic powder trip. Well done
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[PSUFrankenstein]

57 minutes ago, tarponhead said:

 

Avoid western Ct at all costs. Next time go up the thruway and cut over at Albany

Epic powder trip. Well done
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Thanks - yeah I think I would've been better off hitting Treehouse brewing's western MA location as that would've likely given me a better route home

Great trip, got another planned first weekend in March...planning on doing Jay Peak, probably Bolton again, and maybe one other mountain 

[Johnny Law]

1 hour ago, tarponhead said:

 

Avoid western Ct at all costs. Next time go up the thruway and cut over at Albany

Epic powder trip. Well done
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You can use CT at like 3am but otherwise my experience was similar to yours.  

Sick trip and sometimes the thruway is shit too particularly if it's snowing near albany