Waterville Valley , nh 2-27-08

joegm

joegm

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after a good 15 day layoff, it was good to be back on snow for sure...
we went to waterville as we had no faith that loon had any decent lines after the mass vacationers...loon and waterville each got around 10 to 12...we skied the true grit comp bump course with nick preston and coach rob's freestyle team pretty much all day...it took most of the morning to set up as we were stomping it out quite a bit... it was very difficult for sure as it was / still is, awful pure ice underneath... ( i can only imagine how bad the skiing has been the last 10 days :roll: , before this snow came...
off the course waterville left a fair amount of terrain ungroomed , to their credit...however, a funny thing happened around 10am with just a massive push of humidity coming in.... you could just feel it getting warm.. the result was the snow really got heavy and it ended up being far from an ideal powder day in the sense of just floating along powder day...defintely good base building snow for sure, but as far as powder day, i would say it didnt; live up to the hype, based strictly on how the snow changed so fast...northeast skiing.. it is what it is i guess :roll: :wink:
 
Tony Crocker":u043kr4z said:
Why wouldn't one be going farther north on a day like this, say MRG?
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MRG did not get any more snow than NH. I might have saved myself the drive and skied Cannon yesterday had I known that would have been the result. Today might be a different story with the wrap around snow. Though the snow at MRG never got warm enough to melt yesterday unlike what is described above at WV, but I think Cannon or Wildcat probably had similar type of snow compared to MRG. Regardless, totals were consistent at a foot every where across the central NH/VT region it seems. NH is having a banner year this year, Cannon will surely pass 200".
 
Tony Crocker said:
Why wouldn't one be going farther north on a day like this, say MRG?
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tony, aside from the fact that the timing of the storm made the roads a total mess and i was already up in lincoln by 6pm that night, i'll let glen plake answer your question.

" would you rather ski 2 feet of fresh powder on a big ol boring heli bowl or would you rather ski 2 feet of fresh powder on a bump run ?" :wink:

tony our crew has skied decent moguls no more than 2 times this year... i think i define decent moguls are bit differently than most here, and probably most in general....i don't rip people for chasing powder,,, i should'nt get qestioned for chasing competion mogul runs with a foot of powder in them :roll:

and as steve points out the totals were the same everywhere... if wv got nothing and n vt got it, you could make the argument.. that was not the case.. not even close
 
I probably overstated the case for this storm. But within NH my impression is that Franconia Notch forms somewhat of a weather dividing line, and rarely have I read on FTO of great conditions south of that line.

The higher snowfall places, even if they don't get more snow during a particular storm, tend to have a deeper base off-trail and thus offer more skiable lines. Recall the recent report of great powder over no base at Plattekill.

I do track Cannon in my progress reports, they are at 190 inches season-to-date, and have had more terrain open than normal for much of this season.
 
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