it really is an amazing post. opened my eyes to how annoying I was being. let my annoyance of the industrys marketing of snowfall get in the way of realizing that yes it's just a stick next to a camera that drifts from time to time.
anyway yesterday was a really sweet day aside from some wind holds but that was expected. soft snow everywhere but a little sticky in the natural snow areas. overall it was like a day in March when you can ski anything and feel like a pro ha. doubt the same can be said today.
Keep,the faith!
Kudos to mountain ops. I was pleasantly surprised this weekend!
I'll copy/paste most of what I posted in the Sugarbush thread over on AZ:
While they may be only making snow on a handful of trails at a time...they are absolutely hammering them with a nice quality snow.
Downspout skied really nicely on Saturday with the ungroomed gunpowder. Today it was nice again this morning even after being groomed. Lower Organgrinder skied nice under the guns yesterday. Steins was mostly good under the guns yesterday (although there were still a few icy spots you had to watch out for under the snow). Today Stein's was skiing really nice after they turned the guns off. Organgrinder this morning had near 0 visibility at the top so I cut in off the traverse from Jester. The snow was sweet, but visibility was still a bit of a challenge, although better than it had been at the very top. I felt like at times I had to almost duck under the snowgun towers as the piles were so tall. Amazing how much snow they can pump out with cold temps.
The snow squalls this morning were a pleasant surprise as is the shift in the forecast for mid-week where it looks like they may now get 6+ inches of snow instead of the unfrozen stuff in the forecast just a few days ago. Still a long way to go to getting the mountain back in peak shape, but it is still a positive turn of events to help get us through things until the pattern changes later this month.
The Mountain Team thanks you. They have been working hard to get the mountain in shape for this busy weekend. The Strategy of putting down very good depth pays off when we have weather event like last week. The ten day forecast is now looking a bit better and possibly some nice snow Tuesday into Wednesday.
It was a busy weekend, that's for sure, for us snowmakers. Over the course of the weekend, we put down some serious depth on Downspout, OG, Lower OG, SB/Fling, and Stein's. It was a LOT of digging and moving around, which kept us nice and warm. I sampled the fruits of those efforts today (and will again tomorrow). Seeing some of those piles we made during the daylight is truly awe-inspiring.
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