The Storm - Stowe

Powderific!  Days like this don't common often - at least this season - so live it up.  If my leg weren't broke, I'd be there.   

This afternoon I am going up the Sensation Quad an dthere is a couple next to me talking about how great the skiing was. "Best run ever" and stuff like that. "Really?", I say as I point to the CMH mittens and other logoed gear that they are wearing. "Really" they say, apparently it was as good as heli-land today.

Time to go do it again. I still can't believe how much snow we had yesterday, and so much more last night. My daughter kept getting stuck and having to be dug out from chest deep pow yesterday.

Proof, there is a winter in the East, at least in Josh's world

Hopefully more on the way Wed.-Thurs.

Missed this one but will be up tomorrow for the week.

You took our snow!

I was fortunate enough to be up there Saturday and wore my legs out traversing into woods, skiing deep powder in trees and hiking back to base from those same trees over and over again all day.  It was FUN!

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Originally Posted by Cirquerider 

You took our snow!

In my best South Park voice "Yeah they took ur snow"

Saturday was Great here at Wildcat too.

How was it today???    At Wildcat it was blowing pretty good.  I think the quad was only open for about one hour in morning then reopened around 2:30.   We are glad they groomed the new stuff in on Saturday morning otherwise we would have lost most of the good foot that we got by today.

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Originally Posted by wildcat hank 

Saturday was Great here at Wildcat too.

 

How was it today???    At Wildcat it was blowing pretty good.  I think the quad was only open for about one hour in morning then reopened around 2:30.   We are glad they groomed the new stuff in on Saturday morning otherwise we would have lost most of the good foot that we got by today.

 

Bummer about the wind. It was blowing pretty hard here at Stowe too, but not enough to put a wrench in anybody's plans.

Skied Sugarbush on Sunday. It had snowed another 6-8" overnight, so while I didn't get the Saturday bounty that Josh and crew enjoyed it was a bluebird day and still pretty sweet. Bottomless, fluffy bumps and hits on every trail off the Castle Rock and Heavens Gate chairs - SPLASH!! 

Oh, my poor legs!

It looks like Stowe was the winner though. As for Killington and Okemo... oh well.  I can't imagine wasting a powder day at Okemo and Killington wasn't getting much. If you went to VT this weekend looking to ski the the goods, a glance at doppler radar would have steered you to Stowe, MRG or SB.

Well, all you northern NE skiers can send me a thank you card. As always, whenever I head out west in search of snow, it pukes on New England. I'm sitting in Steamboat hoping the next storm dumps a few inches on us while northern VT and the White's get buried. We're out here for NH school break week. I'm glad you guys got the goods so at least spring shouldn't be a total bust. Enjoy!

Amazing weekend at Stowe.  36 inches in 36 hrs.  Unfortunately, I had to head to MRG for my daughter's ski race on Sunday.  They received about a foot at the base and maybe 16-18 on top.  Tracked by 10AM with a hard, nasty base underneath with brown spots showing by the afternoon. 

Everyone is talking about Stowe but I would rather be in the woods at Bolton if you were going to be at a ski area.  Best place to be  though was back country between Bolton and Stowe and you were able to ski fresh tracks all day for free.  Who needs lifts when you have legs and 30 inches of fresh Pow.

Ski BV in 30 inches of fresh Pow to see what real Vermont skiing is all about.  Castle Rock is good but the lines beteen Wilderness and Vista that you hike to can't be topped. Hike up grab a line and run awesome gladed runs all the way to the bottom.  Adams is open now at BV and along with Preachers makes for incredible tree skiing. 

I want a Derby report.

sweet pics!  looks like we picked the wrong weekend to head up. still had an awesome time but i wouldn't say no to fresh powder....

So after reading the comments I'd almost have wished that I went to Stowe this past weekend... 

Oh wait a minute... we ripped up   47" @ JAY!!!!!

BOOM!!!!

And yes some folks there said it was better then some of their best Heli days.... i am in full agreement... one of the best powder days of my life.

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Originally Posted by Josh Matta 

 

 

no photo proof of it really. Jay is a bunch of freaking liars. 

 

 

I dunno, this looks pretty deep to me.

http://www.skitheeast.net/tv/episode/98924155/ref=hp

There is no real difference between 36" and 47" when it comes to enjoying skiing. It was a great weekend, stop arguing about where it was better. It was 'best' where you got to ski. Simple as that.

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Originally Posted by Whiteroom 

There is no real difference between 36" and 47" when it comes to enjoying skiing. It was a great weekend, stop arguing about where it was better. It was 'best' where you got to ski. Simple as that.

No one is arguing... but I would argue that you only say this because you didn't ski the 47 inches sir... your statement is like saying the kiddy pool is just as good as the hot tub. Sure we can all have fun and be happy in the pool but the best and deepest powder was at Jay... period.... BOOM!!!!!!  And for the record 36" is waist/thigh deep at Stowe while 47" at Jay is over your head deep.

Let me throw in a little example to help in my "argument",  were 20ft cliffs off the face on Friday that completely filled in and disappeared by Sunday. Just in case you can't figure that out it means that some areas of Jay wind loaded with over 20ft of snow in a day.... So technically that's 240" inches of deep pow I rode vs 36"... We even triggered a small slide and I had to dig out my buddy so  I'll let the readers be the judge!

BOOM JAY PEAK

But no doubt, everyone had an incredibly amazing weekend in the north country and it's really great to see so many happy faces in snowy photos!!!! 

I love to be at either one....not picky.

What we've got snow forcast with rain, oh well I can dream a bit.  Think I'll start planting Palm Trees

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Originally Posted by moripper 

And for the record 36" is waist/thigh deep at Stowe while 47" at Jay is over your head deep.

Either you are very short or the lofty claims of Jay Peak have rubbed off on you.... BOOM!!!

Can I post up my crappy iPhone pics now? Thing works a treat in low light - not!

I spent the whole weekend working, so no chance to go and color outside the lines, but here's one of my daughter when she was actually able to move on Saturday afternoon.

My car in the parking lot and then "plowing" the driveway on the way home.

Sunday morning, a long-time clients fist time in deep pow.

leave it to the EC to actually fight about snow. 

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Originally Posted by epic 

Either you are very short or the lofty claims of Jay Peak have rubbed off on you.... BOOM!!!

Neither actually, the concept I was presenting was windloading...  due to windloading, the upper mountain had areas that were over 20ft of fresh... and the upper mountain was easily filled with 6ft+ throughout.... so yup....BOOM JAY PEAK!