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Obviously Garry and baldyskier have more experience than me, but I found that if you were smart about where you chose your lines, there was very nice snow to be had off Ch 1, at least on the north facing stuff. It was a tricky weather pattern to deal with - winds were hammering out of the East...

Let me do the math: 5x Ch 3 @ 1000' 4x Ch 1 @ 1330' 2x Ch 2 @ 200' Doesn't quite add up to 20K. I did take a few breathers in the Notch b/c I'm in awful shape and that was not exactly champaign powder. Probably left 5K vert on the table there, but I had a great mid-week day and got home...

Thunder was mostly tracked out by late morning - the line for Ch 3 was up to about 15 minutes at 10:00 or so, which is why we bailed for the parking lot runs. That likely explains why you didn't have much to pick over when you arrived. It got tracked out surprisingly quickly. By the time I...

The powder was a little heavier than expected, and they got a good bit of wind, so it was wise to stay in sheltered, north facing areas today. That said, baldyskier told me the snow off Ch 4 was surprisingly soft, which is NOT what I would have expected given our brief hike and run down to the...

Hey - why ski at all? Lots of dangerous things can happen up in that mountain environment, packed with irresponsible teens and 20-somethings zipping around. Never know when you'll lose an edge and slide into a tree at speed. Better off to just stay inside on the couch watching the Bonnie Hunt...

If the next storm cycle hits mid-week with more than 6" or so, I'm almost certain to hit Baldy. Would love to join anyone here who is interested in same. Help a rookie out, por favor. Admin can vouch for my ability to keep up.

Lesson learned. We took that way home and I found it to be a more enjoyable drive anyway.

All true - there are likely only a handful of days each season where Mtn High is skiing like that. We knew Baldy would be a junk show, and the girls I was going with wouldn't have been able to handle it anyway. It made sense that a bluebird Saturday after 4-5' of snow would bring out the...

With my wife out of commission for the season and some of her friends in town looking to hit the slopes, I decided that Mtn High would be the best choice for our relatively wide mix in skill levels. Though tempted by Baldy, I figured that low intermediate resort skiers wouldn't be able to...

Snowed down to 3500' with this storm. Wouldn't be surprised if the resorts got a good 6-8" from this.

Tony - I think your point is well taken that the windows of great skiing are smaller in the NE but, in my experience, your 1/4 to 1/3 estimate is well over-stated. I'd say no more than 20% at most. Every year is different of course, but the % of rain events where it rains and then the front...

First - you are correct. They are willing to open in more marginal conditions and trust that the skier can make his/her own decisions whether to give it a try. I like that approach. Second, I think SB often under-reports their snowfall. They do not count any snowfall from before their...

Having skied the SB trees for over a decade, I can tell you with a high level of confidence that having the woods ski like they are this early is fairly rare. Typically, we are sniffing around the cleaner, low angle lines of the mid-mountain hardwoods this time of year absent the occasional...

Pretty lame comment which was subsequently smacked down as it should have been.

Probably b/c they got 10 feet of wind after 5 feet of snow, as is usual. Hard for the snow to remain on the trees under those conditions.

*cough* Big Sky *cough*

Mammoth is definitely the focus, but I wasn't expecting lodging to be as expensive as it appears to be. We had an optimal situation in VT where we paid an under-market rate to old family friends so we could have a "share" in their house near Sugarbush. What I'm finding is that Mammoth lodging...

Interesting. I always figured that lapping those upper mtn runs on the central and eastern trail pods of Bear would be the ticket. As for Waterman, I think your concerns w/r/t the ability to keep Hwy 2 open are going to prove true all winter. It's closed again now and I'm quite frankly...

So until then, we've got to slum it at MH and Big Bear? If the latter, and the canyons aren't open at Bear Mtn, do you consider it worth choosing vs. Snow Summit?

Is there anything on Thunder Mtn at Baldy that is worth checking out in these low tide conditions? 31 degrees right now at the Notch, so I presume most of what they receive is going to be frozen with this impulse.