Bristol Conditions

Uggh..................my two oldest granddaughters are doing Christmas camp Mon-Thurs. My wife took them down and I got there around noon to ski and take them home when they finished at 2:30. Hard piles of sugar snow with ice patches in between combined with low light, occasional sleet and fog, total beginners and race kids on limited terrain-hey, best day ever! Did 6 or 7 runs and decided to live to ski another day. Not Bristol's fault-no real opportunities to make snow. Depressing....................
 
Much better today. Same limited terrain, but the sun warmed and softened things up and made it much easier to see. Crowds while still bad for the available slopes seemed thinner than yesterday. Might be a little natural overnight, but next real snowmaking opportunity is Sunday night. You can see the receding snow line on the north side of Rocket in the picture. Trail to the south of the snowguns (Outer Orbit) is not open.

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One run last night-did the torchlight parade for the first time in several years. Rocket was really bumped up with sugar snow and ice-made for an interesting trip down the mountain! Glad we didn't have to do it twice.

We tried some LED flares this year mixed with a few regular flares-the LEDs don't put out enough light to really see, especially with conditions the way they were. Great fireworks display afterward. Kudos to the Fullers for putting it on considering the year they've had so far.
 
Today's report: Making progress! Cold temps have allowed resurfacing on the open trails, and snowmaking on some of the closed trails. There was a little natural which helped. Snow today was good-actually really edgeable in many spots and thankfully crowds were down. Warmup on Wednesday, then it gets colder again. Winter may actually be here!
 
Skied yesterday and today. Too warm for snowmaking , but Comet was opened today as well as the Launching Pad bunny slope. Per the weather report in the last post, we can expect continual improvements and more open slopes shortly. Surface wasn't bad (Comet was better than expected for it's first day). Some natural would help smooth things out as it mixes in.
 
Well, we didn't get the dump that the Buffalo Northtowns did, but the guns are really running. Upper Infinity and the Sunset Chair opened today for the beginners (good idea!), and there are guns on Upper Galaxy, Lower Meteor, Lower Galaxy and Southern Cross. Sun made for nice visibility today (my old eyes like it!). Looking good for the future.
 
BTW, anyone else is free to chime in on this thread. Hope I'm not boring anyone with my almost daily updates, which is what you get from a retired guy who likes to ski..........................
 
Johnny V. said:
BTW, anyone else is free to chime in on this thread. Hope I'm not boring anyone with my almost daily updates, which is what you get from a retired guy who likes to ski..........................
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Na, keep em coming. I've never been to Bristol, kinda surprised I haven't, some of my ski buddies have. I assume you get some lake snow. I think Greek, my home "mountain", gets less than it used to. Sometimes the couple inches here, couple inches there, of lake snow can deceptively add up still. We used to hit Snow Ridge more often too, seems their lake effect ain't what it used to be either. Maybe I'll try getting up to Bristol this spring. I hear the spring conditions can be good there.
 
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