Timberline Four Seasons Resort (not to be confused with the more well-known establishments with the same name), is Canaan Valley Resort’s younger sister, and is located just down the road. Nothing fancy about Timberline. It touts itself as a southern resort (“longest trail in the south”), blasts bluegrass music from its day lodge, has two old triple lifts to the top, and was built and is still owned by a Philadelphia surgeon who still does everything from pitching in to bus tables to joining bands with his fiddle. I kinda like the place for those reasons alone.
It’s mostly groomed trail skiing, but they have thinned out a pretty good amount of woods for glade skiing. The snow in the trees was no longer fluffy, but it wasn’t crusty either–I guess creamy would be the proper description (disclaimer: I only did a couple of short runs in well-spaced areas). Up until now, it's remained below freezing the past few weeks. I was surprised that more folks, better skilled than I, weren’t in the trees. The one good thing about the old slow lifts is that there are plenty of trails to handle the uphill capacity.
Canaan Valley’s good fortune with snow this season is apparently going to get a temporary setback with some dreaded “freezing rain” early this week, but a new series of snow events is on tap for the rest of week, so hopefully this incredible period of snow after snow will continue into March (and even through March as it has in some years).
It’s mostly groomed trail skiing, but they have thinned out a pretty good amount of woods for glade skiing. The snow in the trees was no longer fluffy, but it wasn’t crusty either–I guess creamy would be the proper description (disclaimer: I only did a couple of short runs in well-spaced areas). Up until now, it's remained below freezing the past few weeks. I was surprised that more folks, better skilled than I, weren’t in the trees. The one good thing about the old slow lifts is that there are plenty of trails to handle the uphill capacity.
Canaan Valley’s good fortune with snow this season is apparently going to get a temporary setback with some dreaded “freezing rain” early this week, but a new series of snow events is on tap for the rest of week, so hopefully this incredible period of snow after snow will continue into March (and even through March as it has in some years).
