Gore Mountain Conditions

[Harvey]

I'm out for tomorrow, but I will try to make myself useful. I'll try to post an updated snow total sometime early am.

I sincerely doubt this is going to be mixed precip here at Gore, but I'll let you know what i see.

 

[TomCat]

I won't bother saying which trails were scratchy late in the day, since that will be irrelevant tomorrow!

But wild air skied amazing at 3:30. No snow yet at the glen but my money is on a foot+.

Tom

 

[Harvey]

1am - Maybe an inch so far.
440 am - 3-4 inches
605 am - 6 inches wind is ripping

 

[DomB]

In Johnsburg about 10 min to parking at Gore, between 6.5 and 7.5 inches on the ground where we are staying and still snowing.

 

[Harvey]

Slowing down and the snow is becoming bouncy. I got 21 degrees here.

Must be 8-9 inches. Gore calling 5.

What's fallen is excellent.

Have a great time and post some pics.

 

[Alfredeneumann]

Gore regulars - what is the etiquette/practice on glades? I imagine they will be skiable tomorrow with the storm, but what's the indication they are open - rope/no rope? I don't really poach.

Would be happy to take my kids into something like otter slides glades, but I have been in very few glades.

Two or three years ago there was a storm on a weekday where the power went out. I remember lapping a glade in the high peaks area, but I can't remember the name of the glade for the life of me. That was an awesome day. Pre covid. Met up with a random nice young guy on the first chair and the kid would not let me stop for lunch. We stop for lunch at 2, and a patroller comes in and tells us the power went out, and we have to ski down cloud from the top. Man that is a long traverse.

I consider Gore to be my home mountain even though I live two hours away. It’s certainly my favorite, due to the diversity of terrain but mostly the quantity and diversity of glades. At most mountains glades are usually pretty high up in the conifers, steep and tight. For me, that ship has sailed. But Gore has many glades at lower altitudes that are less steep, long and mostly in open hardwoods - Abenaki, Barkeater and Boreas off Sagamore and Chatterbox and Twister on the lower mountain (Sadly, the lower half of Twister disappeared when they built Echo. The old exit was right at the Adirondack Express.) and the glades at the Ski Bowl. Unfortunately, the glades off Sagamore will go unskied after this storm, unless you’re up for some serious poaching. It doesn’t appear that Sagamore or the Pipeline will be opened any time soon.

 

[DomB]

Best day of skiiing at Gore I've had, and second best ski day period (loses to the sidecountry trek at Copper, which is fair). Skied nearly nonstop 8:30-2:45, with a minestrone Saddle lodge outdoor break and a warm up break at the cool hut in the old Gondi building up top.

Conditions were powder, chopped up powder, skier packed packed powder, some scratchy ness on some of the steeper or wind-exposed trails, and super sweet in the glades with some bottoming out.

Glades were super fun but I do not want to look at the bottom of my skis. My J Skis will now be dubbed my Rock skis.

We skied Macintyre, Kildare (Kilcare?), Twister, Rabbit Run, and Otter slide glades. Twister was gorgeous. Your'e skiing along and there are huge glacial eratics. I did have a front eject over what I thought was a bump and ended up being a fairly larger boulder. And my son was stuck in the small icy creek near the Echo exit for a few minutes when I was waiting on Echo, insisting he didn't need help.

Hawkeye and Hulabaloo were fun but both had powdery bumps and hardpack in different spots by the time we got to them. Hawkeye had a headwind. Took a look at Lies but didn't do it. Pretty massive headwind there when I was around and the goggles not doing great, so no go. What I heard was the headwall was scratchy but the rest good.

Echo was super fun with packed powder small-medium bumps all the way down.

Hats off to all the Gore employees, who had the mountain running and ready to go.

 

[Harvey]

Best day of skiiing at Gore I've had, and second best ski day period (loses to the sidecountry trek at Copper, which is fair). Skied nearly nonstop 8:30-2:45, with a minestrone Saddle lodge outdoor break and a warm up break at the cool hut in the old Gondi building up top.

Conditions were powder, chopped up powder, skier packed packed powder, some scratchy ness on some of the steeper or wind-exposed trails, and super sweet in the glades with some bottoming out.

Glades were super fun but I do not want to look at the bottom of my skis. My J Skis will now be dubbed my Rock skis.

We skied Macintyre, Kildare (Kilcare?), Twister, Rabbit Run, and Otter slide glades. Twister was gorgeous. Your'e skiing along and there are huge glacial eratics. I did have a front eject over what I thought was a bump and ended up being a fairly larger boulder. And my son was stuck in the small icy creek near the Echo exit for a few minutes when I was waiting on Echo, insisting he didn't need help.

Hawkeye and Hulabaloo were fun but both had powdery bumps and hardpack in different spots by the time we got to them. Hawkeye had a headwind. Took a look at Lies but didn't do it. Pretty massive headwind there when I was around and the goggles not doing great, so no go. What I heard was the headwall was scratchy but the rest good.

Echo was super fun with packed powder small-medium bumps all the way down.

Hats off to all the Gore employees, who had the mountain running and ready to go.

This is awesome Dom. Great to see the excitement.

Never skied in Twister Glades before? They are very cool. True part of it go chopped, but IMO some the best part remains.

What did the kids like the most?

 

[DomB]

This is awesome Dom. Great to see the excitement.

Never skied in Twister Glades before? They are very cool. True part of it go chopped, but IMO some the best part remains.

What did the kids like the most?

Thanks! My wife and daughter left after the second run. They had fun but my wife doesn't really like to ski powder, and my daughter had a blast but took one face tumble and got cold. My daughter definitely liked twister the most (she LOVES that trail). I am sure she can do rabbit run, so that will be fun when we take her in there.

When I asked my son what he like the most, he said, "the glades". Twister glades, when pressed. It was funny, I think in a few years my kids will be better than me. My son wouldn't let me stop (not that I am complaining) but every time I opened it up, I looked back and he wasn't far behind. And when we did hawkeye, open pit, and hullabaloo, I thought he would say they were hard because each had patches of pretty tricky hard pack. He was like, 'that wasn't bad,' or something. So that's cool.

There really wasn't much chop in the glades, and frankly that can make it easier to ski. I meant the chopped up powder that turns into bumps. That stuff is fun, but on our second lap on Echo I was air straightlining more than I usually do just because my legs were getting tired.

It was totally awesome. Thanks for asking.

 

[NorEaster27]

Only skied from 1pm to 3pm, lots of bumps all over the mountain. My legs were screaming after only a few runs