Waited to go to Cannon until 11AM and I think made the right call. they had about 8inches of fresh by then and It really started cranking around 1:00. Skiied mostly over in Mittersill area where the wind was providing favorable snow distribution. Many locations where thigh deep and if they hadnt been touched and you dont mind threading the undergrowth. all in all I'd say true snowfall without wind effect was 16" by the end of the day.
There was an interesting amost sleety precip layer at mid mountain for much of the day. this cold unconsolidate snow with slightly heavier denser snow set up some unusual conditions that I think contributed tot the situation described below.
The last run at 4:00 with snow PUKING down we headed away from the resort towards Easton and during our traverse encoutered something that I've only encoutered one othe time in my life in the east in the woods. Full-on fractures (not sluffs) propigateing 45 to 50 feet wide in the hardwoods. even patches of open as small as 5' diamter in softwoods were fracturing. I have to admit I was a bit nervous as dark started to set in and we entered our last steep drainage still a couple of miles from our destination and to hear my friend enter kick off a slide that ran down slope far enought that I could hear branches breaking as he entered the terrain trap of the floor of the brook. All in all a good mission and the drive back through the notch at 10:00 PM just added to the fun.
There was an interesting amost sleety precip layer at mid mountain for much of the day. this cold unconsolidate snow with slightly heavier denser snow set up some unusual conditions that I think contributed tot the situation described below.
The last run at 4:00 with snow PUKING down we headed away from the resort towards Easton and during our traverse encoutered something that I've only encoutered one othe time in my life in the east in the woods. Full-on fractures (not sluffs) propigateing 45 to 50 feet wide in the hardwoods. even patches of open as small as 5' diamter in softwoods were fracturing. I have to admit I was a bit nervous as dark started to set in and we entered our last steep drainage still a couple of miles from our destination and to hear my friend enter kick off a slide that ran down slope far enought that I could hear branches breaking as he entered the terrain trap of the floor of the brook. All in all a good mission and the drive back through the notch at 10:00 PM just added to the fun.
