Advice on Next Weekend

JC

JC

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I'm heading up to Jay Peak for four days next weekend (Friday-Monday) and noticed the wind forecast for Friday-Saturday. I know that Jay frequently shuts down the tram and the freezer for wind holds. How about Smuggler's and Stowe? Are the FourRunner quad at Stowe or the Madonna I lift more likely to be running on a windy day than the lifts at Jay? How about the crowds over the holiday weekend - Jay vs. Stowe vs. Smuggs? I wouldn't mind spending at least one of the four days at a resort other than Jay and thought that Smugglers or Stowe would be a good alternative. The drive doesn't seem to be too long either way. Any advice?
 
last time i was at smuggs, every other mountain in N VT [except MRG] had most lifts on windhold (stowe had a bunch) and smuggs had none.

MRG will also be fine.
 
Some of my best days have been at Jay when most lift's were on wind delay leaving one or two (max) allowing access to the top. You have to do a bit of walking to get to the "other parts" but...

(the only bummer is when ALL upper Mt lifts close - but this rare)

:D
 
hmm. northern VT and windhold- well, usually smuggs is awful- that time that smuggs stayed open, while jay and stowe were closed was kinda flukey (i came up from DC, and we went to stowe the next day- third gondi car- amazing)

smuggs Madonna 1 is notorious for windhold. jay's tram and green mountain flyer can be as well. however, at jay, you can get some pretty sweet turns in when they're running the bonnie quad- you just gotta work for 'em (it's kinda a pain- hiking over to the flyer side, skiing powder, into long runouts, then you gotta take the metro quad and traverse back over to stateside staging area.

i'd say if you're worried about wind, i'd stay away from smuggs (depending on how hard it's blowing). if M1 shuts down, that means M2 (very limited terrain) and sterling will be packed solid... smuggs really needs another double somewhere to access the upper reaches of madonna... or open up the top half of morse mountain to lift-served...

i'm trying to come back for the leftovers of the storm- maybe stowe, maybe smuggs, maybe jay....

or maybe burke- you may find some serious powder there if this storm tracks like they're saying- northeast vermont...
 
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or maybe burke- you may find some serious powder there if this storm tracks like they're saying- northeast vermont...
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you know... it's funny you mention that considering the report i just threw up on sunday. you can lead a horse to water but you can't force him to drink, and all that.
 
I unselFishly ( generally is mid-week for me) recommend Burke. Never seen a wind hold there and, the others will be jammed.
 
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