jamesdeluxe
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- Jul 17, 2020
“Should have been here yesterday… or the day before” — I heard that from a lot of people today.
Jay, like pretty much every other ski area in the northeast, is still recovering from the two to three inches of liquid precip that brutalized us 12 days ago. Luckily, since Monday, it gradually picked up about 20 inches –- snow that apparently didn’t register on any weather tracking maps, leading the Famous Internet Skiers website to call it “magic snow.” Anyplace in the woods where it hadn’t been skied extensively was incredibly soft and light: pure pixie dust. I never hit bottom once in those areas.
Stateside Glade
Unfortunately, since I didn’t have any real knowledge of where everything was, I had to use the cut trails to get from one place to the next, and the often scratchy subsurface there, both on groomers and moguls, was a partial buzzkill. Still, I found a bunch of really smooth shots and milked them as much as possible.
Milk Run
When I got to the base area this morning, it was about 0 degrees, but the bluebird skies warmed things into the low 20s. Noteworthy was that the Freezer lift –- famous of song and story as being the coldest 10 minutes on earth –- was pleasant today: no wind and lots of sun. Oh well, a nice warm-up day for this trip. Tomorrow, I’ll be going to another VT mountain that I’ve never skied before. Then, it’s up to the Eastern Townships for several days.
Had interesting conversations with several locals while on the chairs. One gave me an earful about his love for the mountain itself and his disdain for the resort. According to him, the resort is all about the real estate and hasn’t cut new trails, put in a new lift, or upgraded the facilities in years. When I asked about the West Bowl area, one of them guffawed “that’s been on the drawing board since before the birth of Christ!!”
Jay, like pretty much every other ski area in the northeast, is still recovering from the two to three inches of liquid precip that brutalized us 12 days ago. Luckily, since Monday, it gradually picked up about 20 inches –- snow that apparently didn’t register on any weather tracking maps, leading the Famous Internet Skiers website to call it “magic snow.” Anyplace in the woods where it hadn’t been skied extensively was incredibly soft and light: pure pixie dust. I never hit bottom once in those areas.
Stateside Glade
Unfortunately, since I didn’t have any real knowledge of where everything was, I had to use the cut trails to get from one place to the next, and the often scratchy subsurface there, both on groomers and moguls, was a partial buzzkill. Still, I found a bunch of really smooth shots and milked them as much as possible.
Milk Run
When I got to the base area this morning, it was about 0 degrees, but the bluebird skies warmed things into the low 20s. Noteworthy was that the Freezer lift –- famous of song and story as being the coldest 10 minutes on earth –- was pleasant today: no wind and lots of sun. Oh well, a nice warm-up day for this trip. Tomorrow, I’ll be going to another VT mountain that I’ve never skied before. Then, it’s up to the Eastern Townships for several days.
Had interesting conversations with several locals while on the chairs. One gave me an earful about his love for the mountain itself and his disdain for the resort. According to him, the resort is all about the real estate and hasn’t cut new trails, put in a new lift, or upgraded the facilities in years. When I asked about the West Bowl area, one of them guffawed “that’s been on the drawing board since before the birth of Christ!!”
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