NHpowderhound
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The fat lady might be singing her last song pretty quick im sorry to say.Conditions tuesday were concrete in the woods with the groomers being a bit crispy on the upper mountain with large sections of ice and rock.The lower mountain softened up nicely especially after 12;30pm..I skied Power Line about that time and was still crispy up top and had a couple sections that were down to a 3' ribbon of blue ice bumps,complimented by sharp rocks each side.Still worth skiing if you dont mind taking a chance on blowing out an edge.Do it quick 'cause it only has a matter of days left.The lower section was very doable with some really nice zipper lines.I took a run down Haynes and was really standing hard on my edge when I went down hard and fast and hyper-extended my thumb.Dumb.Hardest fall i've had in a long time.The lower mountain was the place to find the nice loose granular spring snow.The upper mountain was about 5-10 degrees away of softening up but it never got there.Good news is the the woods and most lines on the ridge still have alot of snow.It's the connectors that are lacking.Pumphouse still had a ton of snow as did Valhalla,Deliverance,Staircase&Everglade.You'll just need crampons to get to them. <BR> <BR> Wednesday proved to be warmer,less wind and a little more forgiving snow conditions.I was blown away with what the groomers did with Goat and Vermonter.Tuesday afternoon Goat was so bad people were lined up to get down one at a time.And Vermonter only had snow on half of it.Wednesday morning the both looked like mid winter conditions.In the afternoon I skied it at least 5 times as I found it to be the run of the day with super loose granular bumps and tons of sun.Each tram was only half full too which was nice. <BR> So the skiing is going to be fabulous when it gets above 45 degrees its just not going to stick around.I still think there is going to be a 30 inch storm this spring but the base is already dissapearing.What a differnence a year makes.This same time last year I was skiing waist deep every run!Oh well,i'll make lemonade when life gives me lemons.The Jet will have snow till mid may. <BR>((* <BR>*))NHPH