Whiteface Conditions

[D.B. Cooper]

Couple 15-ish year old girls on rental equipment put themselves at the wrong perch on an icy knoll….and both proceeded to slide 100 feet down a steep, icy pitch into the scrub brush and saplings. They came up laughing, but easily could have come away hurt.

Was that you checking the trail map before starting down Mac and seeing them?

 

[CarlS]

Skyward/Niagara open with snowmaking and whalebacks. The Niagara waterfall has blue ice patches underneath but only a limited stretch.
Mt. Run was great this morning. Temps aren't as bad as the Thermo indicates.
Fairly thin crowd for a Saturday. One of the best days of the year.

100% Agree!

 

[Kleetus]

Any intel on how skiing has been this week? Also if the wind tomorrow will close the mountain down? Game time decision tomorrow morning for WF or Gore..Gore is the safer wind play but been itching to get up to WF

 

[Tjf1967]

Any intel on how skiing has been this week? Also if the wind tomorrow will close the mountain down? Game time decision tomorrow morning for WF or Gore..Gore is the safer wind play but been itching to get up to WF

I'm here it's been skiing well. Cold.

 

[snoloco]

Any signs of life on The Wilmington Trail?

 

[Bandit]

Skied Thursday and Friday, it’s been pretty good, minimal lines.

Sitting in the lodge now looking at the stopped gondola wondering why I bothered. Guess we’ll hit the face lift for a run but thinking it will be cold.

Upper and lower skyward along with Niagara have been sitting with big and often misshapen whales. Some of the whales on lower are so big they’re right up to the guns so much that the gun was blowing water on it.

They had at least the bottom one or 2 guns on Wilmington yesterday.

 

[tirolski]

Guess we’ll hit the face lift for a run but thinking it will be cold.
Some of the whales on lower are so big they’re right up to the guns so much that the gun was blowing water on it.

Won’t be liquid for long.

 

[D.B. Cooper]

Skyward has been open a day and a half - last Saturday and part of Sunday. It's still not groomed. Lower Skyward now has whalebacks top to bottom it, but that's not groomed either. The lowest part still has relatively fresh whalebacks, so maybe they're letting those drain, but above Glen (Ladies' Drop) should have been pounded out by now. Grooming started on Lower Parkway, but that's only half done.
Appears to be top-to-bottom snowmaking on the Wilmington Trail. Ya hear that, Sno?

 

[snoloco]

The report says that they are making snow on the lower portion of The Wilmington Trail. It's right on schedule for an early-February opening. You'd think with the snowmaking upgrades they'd get to it a bit sooner.

 

[JTG]

What’s the deal with Skyward/Niagara? Two Saturday’s ago U Sky to Niagara was open, but then closed Sunday. Have they been open since? With snowmaking moved over to Wilmington now what the heck is going on with grooming (or not grooming) Skyward/Niagara and getting them open? There’s got to be a reason/story….as bad/frustrating as it may be!