Belleayre Conditions

[Harvey]

You drove 5.5 hours one way to Belle for the day!?

I drove 5 hours and 25 minutes, each way, for a powder day at McCauley.

2nd best ski day of my life.

McCauley Powder Odyssey

We were looking to bank some powder euphoria for a rainy day.

nyskiblog.com

 

[JK_PA]

You drove 5.5 hours one way to Belle for the day!? I've done 5 to Stowe but that was with an overnight and a huge dump. 10 hours in the car for a day of skiing is worthy of more than just a road warrior badge.

Luckily my drive up to Belle was not as bad as my 5.5 hour drive back. The drive back home should have been ~4 hours if not for the rush hour accidents along the way. I have made the ~8 hour roundtrip to the Catskills for skiing multiple times all in one day (leave early in the morning, ski, and then drive home). However, this time I drove up to NY the night before to visit family (and break up the drive) so I only had a 2 hour drive the next morning to Belle. Still 7.5 hours of driving that day (and 10.5 hours total if including the night before) but it could have been worse.

 

[jasonwx]

Bell was real nice today..Good conditions...8:30 -11:45 was enough, got a little boring...New lift is nice, but agonizingly slow...imo not worth taking

 

[Sean Mc]

Lightning to 7 to the top is brutal.

 

[gregmarx]

New lift is nice, but agonizingly slow...imo not worth taking

Liftblog has it as a tick slower than the old Lift 7... And with the longer distance it's more than 2 min longer ride time

 

[jasonwx]

Lightning to 7 to the top is brutal.

I thought it was me.
Also sat on the hsq for 15 mins swaying in the wind

 

[Q*bert Jones IV]

Gorgeous day and it feels like most of the mountain is open. Although I might argue that Dot Nebel probably shouldn't have been, as grass was poking through in a couple of places.

 

[Sean Mc]

I half heartedly got in the car at 6:30 not really expecting much from today but boy was I wrong. Dense clouds and fog up top at 8:00. I was expecting loose granular groomers but I was wrong. They set up pretty well overnight. First few runs in dead flat light but really nice nonetheless. 10:00 onward we had Blue bird - really amazing. Decent crowd - nothing crazy. No wait at the lifts at all.

 

[Country Gun]

Gorgeous day and it feels like most of the mountain is open. Although I might argue that Dot Nebel probably shouldn't have been, as grass was poking through in a couple of places.

Wow I thought Dot was the run of the day! I did suffer a core shot on n my brand new skis.

 

[snoloco]

Liftblog has it as a tick slower than the old Lift 7... And with the longer distance it's more than 2 min longer ride time

Those are just the top speeds, and not the speeds that they necessarily run at. I took a video of the new lift today, which was running at 400 fpm. The old lift was run slower, but because the new one is longer, that means a longer ride time.