Gore Mountain Conditions

[Country Gun]

My first trip up to Gore of the season, rate it pretty good. Always arriving early, we walked right on Gondi. Cold beautiful sunny day. Later on, it really crowded up. Crossing from Open pit to Lower Darby I was looking for the light to change.
Skied every trail at least once, found the better snow on the lower mountain after taking skis for a quick tune and enjoying a chocolate syrup waffle.
As one skier yelled out to us on Lower Darby "Thank God for manmade SNOW!

 

[TomCat]

By 8:30am Lot D was almost full. Cars were still parked past lot F on the access road at 4pm.

I was almost boxed in parked in lot D. I was parked straight in facing the access road and later the attendants put a row of cars behind me. Then people parked on the side of the road. It wasn’t pretty.

Tom

 

[DomB]

We skied a half/quarter day today. Mixed precip. Wild Air was pretty soft. Hawkeye was really, really nice with some small bumps on the the side and I guess manmade powder, very sweet. Lies was closed and covered in fog. I don't know if I would have skied it in fog because I don't know the trail well.

Bit of a bummer side note: I took the gondi with a group as a solo because Wood In was closed. The attendant suggested that I go with a group (there was no line) which is totally fine and well posted that you ride in groups on the Gondi.

The bummer was, while apologizing for the annoying question I asked the group I got put in if they would mind wearing masks in the Gondi. They said it was totally fine. We get in, and the kids (20ish?) had their masks on the whole time. The dad didn't. I know it was low enough risk and I was assuming the risk that people wouldn't follow the rules; I didn't keep bringing it up, but it was a bit of a bummer. Windows were open and 3/4 with masks up, so low risk.

I guess I would have just preferred they say they didn't want to mask, and then I could make a decision to jump to the quad or wait for a masking group. Or I could have been annoying in enclosed space. Given how people react about covid, I didn't want to do anything that could be viewed as hostile in an flying bucket for 7 minutes. All good.

 

[freeheeln]

Fixedheeln and I braved the roads (not bad up or back) to find quite a busy day. Sunway, Wild Air skied great early. We headed down Pine Knot, not fine. Hullaballu had very irregular bumps but very edgable. Headwater was nice, Hawkeye skied great very soft snow little bumps. Tannery was smooth and soft. Tahawus was better than Sleeping Bear. Finished up with another down Sunway-Petes-Jamboree. We got a report that Lies was more accurately Icely Groomed .

 

[Dmoss]

Glad Hawkeye was good today, it was a sheet of ice yesterday and Friday. When we left North Creek mid day it seemed like the mixed precip had changed to snow for a while.

 

[DomB]

Glad Hawkeye was good today, it was a sheet of ice yesterday and Friday. When we left North Creek mid day it seemed like the mixed precip had changed to snow for a while.

I think Gore, perhaps more than other mountains in focus here, is a place where skiing varies so much day by day. I don't mean that in a negative way. I have still probably only skied Gore 20 days, but I have not gotten good at predicting what it will be like. One observation: when they blow snow but haven't groomed it and open, that trail is usually pretty sweet. It seems like they only do that on more challenging terrain, like they won't even do that on a blue.

One thing I love about Gore is that when it is somewhat open, you could have so many different types of conditions to ski on one mountain in one day. As someone who likes snow variety, bumps, etc., I think it is cool.

But yeah, I am not good at predicting what conditions will be like on a given day.

 

[TomCat]

But yeah, I am not good at predicting what conditions will be like on a given day.

When it’s a relatively small amount of snow over real hard pack, ( like it’s been over the last week) I’ve found that the groomed trails are best the following day.

Tom

 

[Alfredeneumann]

We skied a half/quarter day today. Mixed precip. Wild Air was pretty soft. Hawkeye was really, really nice with some small bumps on the the side and I guess manmade powder, very sweet. Lies was closed and covered in fog. I don't know if I would have skied it in fog because I don't know the trail well.

Bit of a bummer side note: I took the gondi with a group as a solo because Wood In was closed. The attendant suggested that I go with a group (there was no line) which is totally fine and well posted that you ride in groups on the Gondi.

The bummer was, while apologizing for the annoying question I asked the group I got put in if they would mind wearing masks in the Gondi. They said it was totally fine. We get in, and the kids (20ish?) had their masks on the whole time. The dad didn't. I know it was low enough risk and I was assuming the risk that people wouldn't follow the rules; I didn't keep bringing it up, but it was a bit of a bummer. Windows were open and 3/4 with masks up, so low risk.

I guess I would have just preferred they say they didn't want to mask, and then I could make a decision to jump to the quad or wait for a masking group. Or I could have been annoying in enclosed space. Given how people react about covid, I didn't want to do anything that could be viewed as hostile in an flying bucket for 7 minutes. All good.

Be hostile. Dad deserved it.

 

[Andy_ROC]

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[DomB]

Guys - I didn't mean to start this here.

I knew the rule, but I also knew that not all rules, including important ones, are followed. Do I wear masks a bunch? You bet. Do I double mask on a train, you bet. All good.

So, we can just move this to the designated Covid hash it out thread and go back to Gore conditions. My bad on this one.