I skied on Saturday during the tail end of the rain/snow squall. Not much
accumulation, but enough to make the morning runs nice.

By early afternoon the traffic pushed most of the snow to the sides. While
most were scraping and scratching along in the middle of the runs, I made
many tight skinny turns down the sides just to keep my skis on snow.

By the end of the day the bottom of the front was so warm that the snow got
heavier than my grandmothers mashed potatoes I'm going to have over
Thanksgiving. Mmmm..... can't wait for them, but I can wait for spring
skiing! Bring on the cold weather and the natural!

Will be there over the long weekend hoping the weather will bless us with
snow and not rain!

Later,
Dylan

Dave Higgins wrote:

> Skied Mt Snow this morning.  They claimed to have 10 trails open,
> offering 4 "top to bottom" runs.
>
> Things started out pretty nice - all things considered - at 9 AM.  The
> trail counts were optimistic, however. There was basically one run on
> the North Face and two runs from the Yankee Clipper Quad that funneled
> down to one trail on the lower half of the mountain (which was also fed
> by the (Canyon?) quad on the right that does not go all the way to the
> summit. The fourth "top to bottom" run was apparently River Run,
> basically a traverse which runs from the top of the Canyon(?) quad over
> to the bottom of the North Face.
>
> Traffic was fairly heavy, given the amount of open trails, so things got
> pretty scraped off by mid morning in many areas. Traffic was
> particularly bad on the lower half of the only open front trail, which
> essentially had two detachable quads dumping people onto one trail.
>
> Although it was cold enough to blow snow in certain select areas
> (especially on higher elevations), snow making seemed strikingly
> half-hearted.  A gun would be going here and there, but otherwise there
> was nothing.  This doesn't bode well for next weekend.  Unless they get
> more terrain open soon, next weekend could be a wintry equivalent of
> Times Square during rush hour.
>
> In the past 3 weekends I've visited Killington (2 lifts, 2 runs open at
> the time), Okemo (3 lifts, 3 runs open) and Mt Snow (3 lifts, *maybe*
> 3.5 runs open). I have to say this has been a pretty mediocre start to
> the season, with too few trail options and too many people on those
> trails.
>
> We need some snow!
>
> Dave "Wishing for the Real Thing" Higgins
>
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