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joegm

joegm

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seems like there was an inversion last night as the top was softer than the bottom... the lines were good to go by 10am... al's, hariball, blackcat, top cat, liftlion, starr line, all prime...catenary and panther somewhat disappointing as no real defined lines were evident,,, started to sprout by the end of the day... i know cat was grooming a lot in the last month as the rain probably made it necessary...it was about 50 at the high point up top with a stiff wind going all day... there was a haze that kept the sun tempered till noon , but then that blew out and it was blue....
i would say there is a real concern about the base at cat despite all the hype this season has had... ( which i think will go down as overated , at least in the nh, maine part of town ) there is clearly not as much snow as one would be expecting or at least what we were expecting... i would say, to be honest, loon has more of a base than cat does at this point... starr and lift lion have some real coverage issues, or at least they will pretty soon if there is no more snow of substance to fall...
charged it hard all day.. back tomorrow for more of the best skiing of year hands down..
 
joegm is correct. The New England snow numbers are very good ~130%, but they are nowhere near the huge totals of 2000-01. That season had an excellent corn April with clear and warm weather. joegm is probably right that if it stays warm it will be marginal for anyone to stay open past the end of April.

But in Quebec this season IS what 2000-01 was in New England.
 
it's tough to compare the cover at the kitty to most other places as it takes ALOT more snow to cover the 10-15 foot boulders on most of the trails mentioned that also have no snowmaking so the fact that the cat is close to 100% in the second week in april is pretty good. sunday river, from reports yesterday has no bare spots in the usual places and the woods are fat. maybe this is no 2001 pack but, it's pretty darn good and could be better by the end.
rog
 
While I think the snowpack in lift served areas may not last all that much longer, the eastern season as a whole is definitely not overrated. After the exceptionally strong start 2007-08 will be fairly close to 2001 overall (current score is 47 by History of Vermont Snow Conditions, should total 50 by the end), falling short only by having only about 2/3 as many powder weekends.

If you're not happy with the quality of eastern skiing in 2007-08, you need to move away from the East. Because 80+% of seasons will be worse.
 
Tony Crocker":dr9bg4v2 said:
If you're not happy with the quality of eastern skiing in 2007-08, you need to move away from the East. Because 80+% of seasons will be worse.
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No kidding.
 
Tony Crocker":2zlwi1h5 said:
If you're not happy with the quality of eastern skiing in 2007-08, you need to move away from the East. Because 80+% of seasons will be worse.
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If you're not happy with this season, you should quit skiing and play shuffleboard instead. :roll:

Regarding snowpack, it has melted a lot this week, I'm probably down to maybe 12-16 inches in my backyard. Snowpack is as deep at this time of the yearn South of the border (I'm not even talking here), as most of the years I can remember.

Regarding % of runs open, check out what Tremblant has...again, lift closures are shutting down runs, not lack of snow. Might make some local turns tomorrow at a hill with 33% runs open, but would be at 100% if they would open other lifts. I don't really care about the 67% that are closed, because the best runs of that hill are in that 33%.
 
ya, tony got it right, if ya didn't like this year or last or 03/04 or 00/01 or 92/93 or 93/94 or 95/96 or spring 97, do move west to leave even more of the goods for those of us who continually reap the rewards on a weekly basis, winter after winter out here, go on, go west, you know you want to. LOL
rog
 
Tony Crocker":39cnh8ej said:
While I think the snowpack in lift served areas may not last all that much longer, the eastern season as a whole is definitely not overrated. After the exceptionally strong start 2007-08 will be fairly close to 2001 overall (current score is 47 by History of Vermont Snow Conditions, should total 50 by the end), falling short only by having only about 2/3 as many powder weekends.

If you're not happy with the quality of eastern skiing in 2007-08, you need to move away from the East. Because 80+% of seasons will be worse.
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I found last season was better overall for quality of powder days. I had similar powder days this year but the quality was not quite at par. Part of the reason I think is the majority of skiers thought last year sucked while this season ruled. So, naturally, more skiers showed up this year increasing competition. There were some ridiculous days when the powder starved came out in full force this year. Additionally, the best powder last season fell at the end of the year whereas most of the best powder this season fell closer to the start of the season. This translates to less terrain options open when NoVT was getting nuked versus all terrain options open last season when we got nuked. Overall, this season will probably rank higher overall than last season (still a few months to go and Mount Washington got hammered with snow in April last year but not this year..... though the snow pack is already really deep... different options are better this year it seems). NH having a banner year really saved this season from not being as good as last season for me. Several killer days in NH this season and the Rock Pile is begging for quality late season turns if the weekend weather would just swing in my favor. Wish I could have taken some mid-week vacation days this week but it wasn't in the cards.
 
steve, last years april snow fell on minimal mount washington base depths. it's so much fatter up there this year than anytime last year and will be with no additional snow, aprils not even half over yet and this weekend could give higher alts a bunch more. this years storms were definitly more wallyworld at the lifts than last, i agree. take next wed/thurs off, the whites could be good yet again.
rog
 
It's always better to get the snow early IMHO. Powder in December and then what Sharon & company were skiing last weekend is vastly superior to having not-worth-skiing-at-all conditions through most of January last year, no matter how much pow there was after that. This is an issue where I'm more in Patrick's camp than the pure powderhounds. The more months of "interesting" skiing the better IMHO. Like Mammoth in 2004-05.

And I agree with icelantic that the buildup of base throughout the season will make the Mt. Washington spring season better/longer than last year.

Regarding % open: I've just gone through my last survey for a Season Progress Report, and it's obvious some percents open (ie Vail 75%) are due to lift closures rather than snow. And I'll concede the point of the other thread about Sugarloaf because it's at 99% now, a promising sign that it might make May 4.
 
Tony Crocker":259ofe4o said:
While I think the snowpack in lift served areas may not last all that much longer, the eastern season as a whole is definitely not overrated. After the exceptionally strong start 2007-08 will be fairly close to 2001 overall.
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Holy COW! Tony posted some EC Stoke! I thought for sure it was an imposter! But then....

Tony Crocker":259ofe4o said:
If you're not happy with the quality of eastern skiing in 2007-08, you need to move away from the East. Because 80+% of seasons will be worse.
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:roll:
 
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