Labrador Conditions
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Lab skied bigger than normal for it's 750’. Skied all the trails but a few. Lots of everything ya'd want except corduroy. Main trails were bumpy except for some slots in the middle. Ski-on to both lifts except once. Boarders were having fun too as there’s piles of snow.
Drove past Song on the way home. It looked nice too. May go there in the morning.
Drove past Song on the way home. It looked nice too. May go there in the morning.
AT83
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- Dec 2, 2020
Labs snow report says 32+ for the week. Tuesday there was over a foot of powder on a nice base and you could ski the ungroomed easily. The tree sking was great. Today not so much. The groomers were in great shape, but the ungroomed trails and woods had deep packing snow. Turns were a lot of work. It was around 32 degrees with some sun. But I was there for the moguls today, and the mogul skiing was good under the lift and on No Name.
Ptarmigan: My morning warm up run. Big mistake. Ungroomed deep crud. Bailed out onto the one groomer track on the edge of the trail. Wanted my knees intact at the end of the day. With falling temps I guess tonight it could groom out nicely.
Jacobie liftline: Decent bumps with good coverage even around tower #8 which is often thin.
No Name: A natural snow trail. Probably my favorite when the snow is deep. Really nice moguls, but firm because of the packing snow. It was skied enough today to keep the snow loose. Have not seen it this good in a long time. Took the most runs here.
Midnight Express: Not bad with fairly loose crud. I think this is also a natural snow trail.
Glade: Skiable but today a lot of work for me. Better after some lanes had been cut through the trees by other skiers.
Jughandle (part of Cutthroat): I like this part of Cutthroat but today it did not look skied on. I tested the top part but the crud was too dense for me.
So two great days of skiing with the best coverage I've seen in a long time. I stopped at Tinker's Falls on the way home. It's 3 miles north of Lab on route 91. It's a short, easy hike on a well packed trail. Beautiful ice formations. Well worth seeing.
Ptarmigan: My morning warm up run. Big mistake. Ungroomed deep crud. Bailed out onto the one groomer track on the edge of the trail. Wanted my knees intact at the end of the day. With falling temps I guess tonight it could groom out nicely.
Jacobie liftline: Decent bumps with good coverage even around tower #8 which is often thin.
No Name: A natural snow trail. Probably my favorite when the snow is deep. Really nice moguls, but firm because of the packing snow. It was skied enough today to keep the snow loose. Have not seen it this good in a long time. Took the most runs here.
Midnight Express: Not bad with fairly loose crud. I think this is also a natural snow trail.
Glade: Skiable but today a lot of work for me. Better after some lanes had been cut through the trees by other skiers.
Jughandle (part of Cutthroat): I like this part of Cutthroat but today it did not look skied on. I tested the top part but the crud was too dense for me.
So two great days of skiing with the best coverage I've seen in a long time. I stopped at Tinker's Falls on the way home. It's 3 miles north of Lab on route 91. It's a short, easy hike on a well packed trail. Beautiful ice formations. Well worth seeing.
Your write-ups are much better than mine. I only do moguls when I have to. Agree about Ptarmy. If they groomed more than the one slot the moguls would get bigger and better on both sides. It’s how they used to do it. Now it’s all the cut-up-crud ya can eat. With the Ptarmy lift only running on weekends that side has been much lower trafficked.
Holy Mole-hill, Lab made #4 in last week's snow totals for ski areas, eking out Vail, Aspen and Hunter, allegedly. https://unofficialnetworks.com/2021/02/05/winners-of-the-week-2-5-21/
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Skied Lab before noon till after 3. Sunshine low to mid 30s, no wind. Drove by Song on the way, looked nice but there was a line so went to Lab as not been there in a while and they were runnin 2 lifts to the top instead of 1 at Song. Ptarmigan was best trail as most south & sun softened as well as favorite. Chalky with some golf ballmarbles in the others. Plenty of snow, no ice. Fast conditions, there's lots of jumps and little kids were playing on em. Ski on.
MarzNC
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Lab was combined with Song in 2014. According to this Sept 2014 article, it was founded in 1956. The couple who were part of the founding family had been running it since 1990. They stayed on for the first season. I drove by one fall and remember thinking that being able to ski both on the same pass would make it more interesting for locals.
Song Mountain and Labrador ski resorts merge, will operate as one company
One new development is the introduction of a new "Inter-Mountain Passport," full season pass.
www.syracuse.com
