Gore Mountain Conditions
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Country Gun
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Almost chose the Ski Bowl to start out at Sat, seeing the late start and line, glad I chose a stiff cold wind in the face up the ADK first thing. Never a problem parking up against the paid area when arriving before 745.
Wish I could have been there Friday for the goods. Saturday still was pretty fun. Made it to the Ski bowl eventually and skied the Ski Bowl glades once.
Very happy Gore got the direct hit this time.
Talking about weekday, weekends, I will take a ski day any day I can get it. I never complain, I ski the terrain and snow that’s available!
Wish I could have been there Friday for the goods. Saturday still was pretty fun. Made it to the Ski bowl eventually and skied the Ski Bowl glades once.
Very happy Gore got the direct hit this time.
Talking about weekday, weekends, I will take a ski day any day I can get it. I never complain, I ski the terrain and snow that’s available!
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DomB
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Hey, that's me and my son! Nice. It was his first time down 46'er.
DomB
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Um, look, I look forward to a time when I can weekday ski (and there is so much I just enjoy now, though yeah there is the normal stress that comes from my particular stage of life (like any stage)), but man, I skied Gore yesterday and today, and today there was nothing that ever felt like a line. Yes, I am in NorEaster's 8:27 waiting pic, and yes sometimes I wait in a line.
But even on a crowded weekend, Gore can (like this weekend) ski like a place without lines if you are looking in the right spots.
Longest line I hit this weekend was like 4 minutes, that was the ADK quad in the morning to go up.
DomB
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Conditions wise: Super awesome weekend.
Today was a blast. We parked at the ski bowl maybe 30 feet from the night skiing lift (sweet). My family was second and third chair on Hudson triple. I got a first track down 46'er, which had some pitch but was so perfectly groomed (chair ahead of me went skier's right, I went skier's left). Folks ahead of us knew there stuff about Gore and said they thought 46'er was more narrow than Lies. Did not feel that way to me, but we all have perspectives! I would describe the pitch as similar to the first steeper pitch on hawkeye but maybe twice as long. It was just so nice today. Got to lap it a second time with my son, which was a cool family moment. Gore milestone: his first double black at the mountain.
Hudson skied really fun and some challenge as it was ungroomed, chopped powder and some sizeable bumps. We went down Moxam (?) which was mostly ungroomed packed powder with fun bumps down both sides. My wife and daughter left after a run - I think my 8 yo was just tired from skiing powder, packed powder, and trees all day yesterday.
Then we took the interconnect. Sagamore was fun, a handful of scrapy spots on the two steeper pitches, but plenty of good snow. The bumps in there were really soft and fun. I may have slightly 'crashed' into a sapling in that small bump patch that is about 4 bumps wide. While I wanted in Barkeater, my legs and prudence (and son's concurrence) led us to skip it. I think it was the right choice. BTW, if you're like me trying to figure out all the parts of the mountain, if you park at ski bowl, taking Barkeater seems like the least flat and fastest way to get back to the ski bowl.
Tahawus glade from Hedges was really fun - packed powder, pretty wide open. Powder pass had rows and rows of soft, well-spaced bumps and a handful of fun jumps. I felt like a pro in there after skiing Hudson ungroomed chop - haha. We lapped that the most.
Then we tuned it down, hitting Sunway to Little Dipper. Honestly, LD had lots of fun bumps but you couldn't just go to sleep in there - you had to ski.
And then we were done. 4 hours, 4 peaks (Ski bowl, Burnt Ridge, North Side, Main face (what's it called). Max wait time - 0 (other than waiting for second chair on hudson, which probably opened at 8:45 (?). What's not to love about Gore?
Today was a blast. We parked at the ski bowl maybe 30 feet from the night skiing lift (sweet). My family was second and third chair on Hudson triple. I got a first track down 46'er, which had some pitch but was so perfectly groomed (chair ahead of me went skier's right, I went skier's left). Folks ahead of us knew there stuff about Gore and said they thought 46'er was more narrow than Lies. Did not feel that way to me, but we all have perspectives! I would describe the pitch as similar to the first steeper pitch on hawkeye but maybe twice as long. It was just so nice today. Got to lap it a second time with my son, which was a cool family moment. Gore milestone: his first double black at the mountain.
Hudson skied really fun and some challenge as it was ungroomed, chopped powder and some sizeable bumps. We went down Moxam (?) which was mostly ungroomed packed powder with fun bumps down both sides. My wife and daughter left after a run - I think my 8 yo was just tired from skiing powder, packed powder, and trees all day yesterday.
Then we took the interconnect. Sagamore was fun, a handful of scrapy spots on the two steeper pitches, but plenty of good snow. The bumps in there were really soft and fun. I may have slightly 'crashed' into a sapling in that small bump patch that is about 4 bumps wide. While I wanted in Barkeater, my legs and prudence (and son's concurrence) led us to skip it. I think it was the right choice. BTW, if you're like me trying to figure out all the parts of the mountain, if you park at ski bowl, taking Barkeater seems like the least flat and fastest way to get back to the ski bowl.
Tahawus glade from Hedges was really fun - packed powder, pretty wide open. Powder pass had rows and rows of soft, well-spaced bumps and a handful of fun jumps. I felt like a pro in there after skiing Hudson ungroomed chop - haha. We lapped that the most.
Then we tuned it down, hitting Sunway to Little Dipper. Honestly, LD had lots of fun bumps but you couldn't just go to sleep in there - you had to ski.
And then we were done. 4 hours, 4 peaks (Ski bowl, Burnt Ridge, North Side, Main face (what's it called). Max wait time - 0 (other than waiting for second chair on hudson, which probably opened at 8:45 (?). What's not to love about Gore?
That be Bear.
Glad y’all had some fun.
Harvey
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Do you want to be first, or just in line at 830?
Harvey
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Main face?... the summit is Gore Mountain, the east side (aka the front) is Bear Mountain.
46er is narrower than Lies and also the headwall is steeper than Lies, but much shorter.
Sounds like your crew might be ready for the Burnt Ridge trees? There are a few steeps in there.
DomB
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Ha, that is funny. I've skied Lies I think 3 different days this season, and I came to the opposite conclusion (concluded Lies was steeper and more narrow than 46'er).
The only reason I can think of (other than bad judgment/conclusion on my part), each of the days Lies was either fairly bad or marginal conditions. 46'er today was perfectly manufactured by the combination of snow volume, weather, and grooming. Honestly, the four or so cat tracks wide of grooming (without the bumps skier's left) on 46'er alone felt wider than Lies. Then again, when Lies is icy or not so great, I really try to pick the area I ski to a pretty narrow corridor making judgments a few turns ahead.
I can't wait to get into the Burnt Ridge trees. I just made the judgment that 12 hours into awesome nonstop skiing on the mountain and enough accomplished on the checklist, we weren't going to jump in there today
