Haystack 3/10----- Original Message -----
From: Salts, Peter

> Spoke to a few people on the lift who came over from Mt. Snow and they
said that there were 45 minute
> lines for lift tickets, 45 - 60 minute lift lines and a closed North Face.
Sucked for them, good for us.

I was at Mt. Snow visiting friends this weekend.  Making the most of a day
there requires a good tactical plan -- get there early, get your ticket
before you do anything else, have lunch at 10:30, drag a "ski pro" around
with you for the occasional lift-line emergency (ie. 1000 people at the
bottom of North Face waiting for a FG triple running at 1/2 speed because of
high winds) and under no circumstance should you visit the front face after
9:30 on a weekend.

It was my experience that the average lift line Saturday morning was about
10 minutes, mostly at Carinthia and Sunbrook.  With 6" of new on top of ~40"
of almost new the non-official trees were sublime, floaty, untracked and
right under the lifts - no fuss, no muss, no tracks, no traversing.  The
bumps were soft and forgiving.  Same deal Sunday.

While the mountain certainly isn't going to scare anyone, and is the poster
child for "industrial McSkiing" of the highest order, this weekend it most
assuredly did not suck.

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