Belleayre Conditions

[Ripitz]

Mid Winter firm. Slopes empty today

 

[Ripitz]

I don’t know what the morning was like but the afternoon was like skydiving through a cloud

 

[DomB]

I don’t know what the morning was like but the afternoon was like skydiving through a cloud

Thanks Rip - have they been running 7 during the week? Will be heading up on Thursday so wanted to get a sense of what they have been running. I plan to avoid the Gondi even though I think it will be uncrowded, so trying to figure out if I will be bouncing between Tomahawk and 7 or Belleayre Express.
Do you know if for Belleayre Express they load as limited to your group (ie you load with who you come with)?
Thanks for posting on conditions - nice to see another Bell 'regular'

 

[G.ski]

I don’t know what the morning was like but the afternoon was like skydiving through a cloud

Yeah I pulled the 11-3pm skydiving shift as well. Snow was good but having to stop every half run to scrape ice off my goggles was a pain. Similar conditions today I put off my trip to Platty until tomorrow because of that.

 

[G.ski]

Thanks Rip - have they been running 7 during the week? Will be heading up on Thursday so wanted to get a sense of what they have been running. I plan to avoid the Gondi even though I think it will be uncrowded, so trying to figure out if I will be bouncing between Tomahawk and 7 or Belleayre Express.
Do you know if for Belleayre Express they load as limited to your group (ie you load with who you come with)?
Thanks for posting on conditions - nice to see another Bell 'regular'

7 has not run much if at all this season. Park at Tomahawk and run laps there that's what I've been doing. I also venture over to the lift 6 side but that usually requires an eventual trip up the Gondi to get back to Tomahawk. Not so bad they have been leaving all the windows open in the cabins plus I just tell them I'm riding solo so I get a cabin all to myself.
As far as I can tell you can ride solo on any lift there if that's what you prefer.

 

[Ripitz]

We did a few laps on Deer Run with the little one. We’ve been using the gondola to keep her warm. She’s 3 so using chairs is a little unsettling for me. No line at all just walk right up. I don’t know about catching COVID in the cabins but we have felt pretty safe especially when no one is around. The windows are open and we keep our masks and gloves on. It looks like they are running all lifts for the holiday weekend. Not sure about lift 7 spinning midweek but Tomahawk usually does. I think they had it down for a day or two earlier this week for maintenance. It would be great if they could speed that thing up.
We stopped at the Pine Hill Arms for dinner on the way home. The dining room was empty when we got there, only two other groups came in and we were spaced very far apart. The food was great and it was good to see them open. It may be risky and some might say unnecessary but these places need our support!

 

[snoloco]

Lift 7 has been running weekends this year. It first ran December 19th/20th, but was down until at least the weekend after New Year's due to the avalanche. Tomahawk has been running daily. Last year it was the other way around where Lift 7 ran daily and Tomahawk rarely ran. As of last weekend, according to my dad, you could not get back to Tomahawk from the Overlook area. You had to ski down to the bottom and go up the gondola. Going from Tomahawk to the other side, the only way was to ski across the top. I'm not sure if that has changed for this weekend. Their snow report has said they were making snow on Algonquin, Tomahawk Crossing, and Expressway. These are the connections between the two sides at mid mountain. Tomahawk Crossing overlaps a portion of Algonquin.

 

[Q*bert Jones IV]

Belleayre was an absolute dream today.

I've been skiing Belle for three years and I don't think I've ever seen Cathedral Brook open. Unlike the rest of the mountain, they don't groom it at all. So there are weeds sticking up, blown down trees, and whatever snow happens to have fallen. At several points I had to jump (or wade) across streams intersecting the trail. It was glorious.

 

[Ripitz]

Adventure skiing!

 

[JTG]

I think WF should take their cue from Belle....open more natural trails with thin cover!