jasoncapecod
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it was for thurs-sat... i will just ski the Catskill areas sat &sun.. hopefully with a little fresh too
ah! new england!
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Heh, Pulaski... if any place ever deserved a ski area.
jasoncapecod
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i went salmon fishing there one year.. i don't remember any hills
Absolutely. If you're headed for a crappy experience, look for a way to bail out or improve it.
Or set up the trip in the first place so it can be modified on the fly. The crazy road trip q from Scotland has planned does have the virtue of being flexible I think. So I advised accordingly.
Geoff
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Tony Crocker":10jzwo3b said:
The other strategy is to just ski every weekend. You'll have your good ones and your not so good ones. Regardless, a day on the hill is far better than sitting on the sofa swilling beer or, even worse, doing household chores.
I had a pretty good time hacking my way through breakable crust in the trees last weekend at Killington. Would I have preferred knee-deep powder like the weekend before? Sure.
I've been following that strategy since I was a little kid. My life pretty much goes on hold for 6 months while the lifts spin. I wouldn't have it any other way.
jasoncapecod":2kjbefmw said:
There aren't any, but it's right in the lake effect bullseye.
jasoncapecod":p1r6ig2k said:
Maybe the United Arab Emirates could buy Pulaski and build a hill.
http://media.skoopy.com/misc/dubai_skiing/
skibumm100
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Snow Ridge is small but sometimes they get major dumpage. I lived in Cowville...I mean Lowville for about a year and Turin was about 15 miles south. We got a foot in Lowville, Turin (Snow Ridge) got 5 feet...that's right 5 feet... all at once. The area was closed because no one could get to it. They had an even more snow last year. I have never seen snowdrifts like they have around Turin, Highmarket and that small localized area. You need to be careful on snowmobiles so you don't hit the power wires. Now that's snow!
icelanticskier
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Geoff":3ispsrpn said:
i like it geoff. lesley and i do the same thing. every monday night it's go time, every week from nov-june. most weeks are really, really good with pow more often than not depending on location chosen that week. although the 1st of the last two at stowe was desparate at best, yesterday in bc was truly special.
love the seacoast
rog
Skimore....Love the passion...I think Sheryl Crow said...it's not gettin what you want it's wantin what you got, or something like that.
Geoff - in Portsmouth you may be closer to good skiing than some of us. When it's close to 5 hours to the hill where you have your pass...every weekend is tough.
I prefer to continue to be a weathernut, consumer all the long range weatherporn I can get my hands on...and make my best guess. It's working out pretty good this year.
Geoff - in Portsmouth you may be closer to good skiing than some of us. When it's close to 5 hours to the hill where you have your pass...every weekend is tough.
I prefer to continue to be a weathernut, consumer all the long range weatherporn I can get my hands on...and make my best guess. It's working out pretty good this year.
skibumm100
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Harv,
I'm in a quandry about where to go this weekend. I have been watching the weather forecasts and it doesn't look like we're in for any big dumps this weekend. I have been looking at Jay, Sugarloaf(on the list to hit), Saddleback (on the list to hit), Wildcat, Sunday River(never been), Shawnee (free pass), Cannon, Black Mountain (on the list to hit). I will probably be hitting Jay this weekend or next. I'm taking the wife and kids with me. Anything on the horizon as far as weather? I'd like to avoid icy conditions (southern better?) because my wife will do nothing but complain and my youngest is still in a solid pizza turn and refuses to ski anywhere other than straight down the fall line. :? But....fresh snow trumps chopped ice every time.
I'm in a quandry about where to go this weekend. I have been watching the weather forecasts and it doesn't look like we're in for any big dumps this weekend. I have been looking at Jay, Sugarloaf(on the list to hit), Saddleback (on the list to hit), Wildcat, Sunday River(never been), Shawnee (free pass), Cannon, Black Mountain (on the list to hit). I will probably be hitting Jay this weekend or next. I'm taking the wife and kids with me. Anything on the horizon as far as weather? I'd like to avoid icy conditions (southern better?) because my wife will do nothing but complain and my youngest is still in a solid pizza turn and refuses to ski anywhere other than straight down the fall line. :? But....fresh snow trumps chopped ice every time.
skibumm100":3nzd9ixb said:
Wow. I never anticipated that someone else would ask my opinion on where to ski based on weather. That's really more of a powderfreak or Jason thing. Hopefully one of them will chime in. If they do...put MUCH more stock in what they say than this:
It does look, at this time, like Fridays event with be more southern (relative to VT). The MRG weather guy is calling Fridays event a bust for them. I'm always leary of going too far south as it I think it increases the likelyhood of mixed precip. And I'd rather ski in 4 inches of snow that take a shot at 10" that ends up as something other than snow. So...why not try Kmart or Okemo. And if it goes south of them, you know it will stay cold up there...and those places crank out a lot of manmade.
Counterpoint: Odds are always good that Jay and Stowe will manufacture something out of nothing...but not sure how far you want to drive. (You're near Exeter right?)
My 2 cents, would love to hear other opinions.
Here is Accuweather current map. They aren't the best, but usually they are the earliest to post a snowfall map:
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Check out the attached snowfall map from wxrisk.com as his first guess. Apparently the 12Z NAM run just trended towards a lot more precipitation. NWS office in forecast discussion up here in central New York has just gone from saying north may not even need any advisories to talking about winter storm warnings for tomorrow.
We'll see what the GFS does (I hate that model).
We'll see what the GFS does (I hate that model).
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icelanticskier
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skibumm100":3ipwjlwc said:
don't go north
i'm seein snow south and dust at best north of laconia. conditions up north are no better than south at the resorts from what i skied at stowe, bc a much different story if ya like to walk. i think crotched for mid-nite madness could be the ticket for fri afternoon all night pow turns. wachusett could be even better. i'm thinkin crotched, gotta reverse my work schedule for tomorrow which is just a pencils stroke away if the forcast holds true.
stay south
rog
jasoncapecod
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12z nam went wild with the qpf for the catskills. BUT it also trended warmer..
Hey, calm down everyone. Don't you know that Alta gets much more snow?
skibumm100
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....or I could just sleep at home this weekend and ski Crotched and Gunstock Saturday and Sunday. Possibly Pat's or Ragged also. The boys have been pestering me to go to Gunstock and we always have a good time at Crotched. Maybe Jay/Burke/Wildcat next Thurs - Sun. Takin' a couple days off next week for school vacation week. Plus it will be Mardi Gras at Jay next week. Too many choices. :?