Jason’s Weather: Week of March 8 2010

Forecast Update March 12:

With a cut off low meandering around the Mid-atlantic and no cold air to the north… r**n should advance to the Canadian border. That said, the heaviest NCP will remain south of Albany. Sleet is a possibility in the mountains.

Now too much anticipated long range. It appears that for the next 10 days or so the storm track will be across Canada. This will result in a series of cold front passages. Which means a brief warm up followed by cooler air and a chance of snow showers.

The bottom line is, this pattern is not favorable for any meaningful snow. As we all know, we are getting closer to April and the end of, what I think, was a pretty decent season …

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Gore Mountain, NY: 3/8/10

Plan was to meet Xman and Margo at 9:45 at the Gondi. Unlike other rendezvous plans from this weekend, it worked perfectly. Off the Gondi we chose Uncas. It’s steep pitch, and southeast face, makes it great first choice on a spring day.

Once again, I couldn’t resist the trees. But on a cool spring morning, the trails were the place to be. Chatiemac was groomed and rippin. Lies, groomed on Saturday, had nice midsize bumps.

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Gore Mountain, NY: 3/7/10

Today was my best groomer day this season, and trees were good too. Temps didn’t go very low last night – 26F at our place. I knew things would soften fast.

Chuck on Lies

I ran into Chuck in the Gondi line and we went up top. The corduroy was phenomenal — carve-able down to a full ski width. We did Chatiemac and Lies. At the bottom of Lies we were both laughing.

Fox Lair

I had to abandon the summit to get Neve out of her lesson. The run down to the base was pure elation. It must look odd to see an old teleguy ripping trailwide GS turns on Sunway wailing… Woo Hoo!

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