Labrador Conditions

[tirolski]

Went to Lab for the opener on Saturday after going to the office at Song to avoid the line anticipated for Saturday. Song only had bunny hill lift open. Got to lab at 10 & lot was quite full. Booted up, walked passed the rope tow and looked at lines. One for tickets/passes was really long and the one for the lift was even longer. Ya had to go uphill about 50 yrs to even get into it. Decided to hit the rope tow as I’ve never had.

Did 8 “runs” in about 10 minutes and called it a day. Let the other folks have at it. Friend said he had a ball skiing under the foot of dry pow under the triple chair. He said line wait was 5-8 min. On my wait out mentioned to patrollers to have them run the T-bar, which was running the next day and lines were not a problem as observed from web cam.

 

[tirolski]

Skied Lab Monday. I let the other folks have at it over the holiday period. Snow was good as they got 3-4” of new and temps were ~32. It was ski on to lifts all runs, but did wait for 2 twosomes once. Lab has a triple and a double open now. (And a rope thing I tried last time due to lines at the triple)
Skied all the open trails but one. It was very cloudy with visibility less than 1/2 mile due to low clouds hanging in Labrador Hollow. Ski Legs getting stronger as well as turns. Snow was soft and a tad dense allowing for fun skiing. Left at 2:30 or so.
Elevation makes a big difference in CNY now as temps around 32 means it either melts or gets deeper. Hopefully it stays below freezing and white stuff continues to pile up.

 

[tirolski]

Was thinking of skiing @ Lab this morning.
Think I’ll wait a bit.

 

[tirolski]

Lab is running on all 4 lifts today (including my favorite, Ptarmigan). There’s nice accessible glades from there and it’s always less crowded. Gonna try and go Monday but doubt they’ll have it running ... we’ll see.

 

[tirolski]

Skied Lab today noon till 3 or so. Everything open, fast firm snow. The last 4” wasn’t the fluffier lake effect. Rapid transit, as not a lot of folks and was still ski on to lift, except for a few folks twice.

If ya wanted soft bumps Ptarmigan got em. They moved the groomer to bring a long gun to fill a hole before the cut off back to the triple. It’s. not been groomed and lots of tree skiing in that patch of woods. Ptarmy lift wasn’t spinning today.
Busier midweek day than what’s seen in the past few years, could be the good snow, could be best thing to do these days. Lots of “students” havin more fun skiing than in class, for what’s that worth. Small patch of blue ski seen ac couple times. Mid 30’s not wind. Light spit of snow. If folks can come up with night vision lenses why can’t folks make flat-light vision googles or something similar?

 

[Brownski]

First visit today.

We’re fans

 

[Brownski]

I can find no evidence on Wikipedia or my various ski reference books that Lab even exists. Can somebody enlighten me a little about it’s history. Like, how old is the place? Looks like 1960s and 70s lifts.

 

[tirolski]

First visit today.
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We’re fans

That be Ptarmy. Nice woods to right. Was lift runnin at bottom?

 

[tirolski]

I can find no evidence ... Lab even exists. Can somebody enlighten me a little about it’s history. Like, how old is the place? Looks like 1960s and 70s lifts.

Lab exists. It’s somewhat squirrely findin it’s web page?
It’s better in person.
Lab's & Song's web page listed as SKiCNY.
In this one.

SkiCNY | Skiing in Central New York

Full Labrador Report Full Song Report…

www.skicny.com

1960s is about right.
Skied it then.

 

[Brownski]

Yeah, I skied it today and really enjoyed it. Nice place. I found a date for its founding someplace- 1957. That’s all I’ve got.