woodi7259
New member
I was back at whiteface today and what a change it was from 2 days ago. All the blowing they'd been doing the past few days payed off and they opened excelsior lower excelsior and summit express which gave a bit more variation to the esentially one route down and added quite a bit more vertical. They were blowing snow all day but i'm not quite sure they were helping themselves by doing so. It appeared as if they had groomed yesterday and then just blew snow all over the trails over night as well as the few inches of fresh they picked up yesterday (2-3 inches) which made it for pretty nice soft snow on top of a pretty firm base. The same areas around the midstation lodge were getting sketchy by the end of the day. They also added a box to the bottom of the "terrain park". The conditions continually got worse as the day went on as all the loose snow got really mounded up and rock and grass got exposed in places. It also got to the point where there snow guns were making some snow and quite a bit of slush or just plain water which made for some pretty nasty wet slushy spots on the trails which almost threw me on my face on my last run. They really should have shut the guns off for a few hours in the afternoon because all they were doing was making a slusy mess thats gonna get real icy tonight. Overall conditions were real nice in the morning for early season skiing but got continually worse with skier traffic and "slush making" now we just need that one big dump to get alot more open because blowing it all open on man made with this rough fall is gonna take awhile. Today woud have greatly benefited with the opening of the little whiteface chair because the upper section of the trail combination was much nicer then the lower crazier section and being a telemarker having to take my skis on and off for the gondola got annoying. Mixing Bowl was also open today for the beginners.