Skiing Sugarloaf #10 - A snowstorm would be nice скачать в хорошем качестве

Skiing Sugarloaf #10 - A snowstorm would be nice

Snowmakers and groomers have done their best today, but it stands that the mountain is craving some natural snow. I was talking with a shuttle driver today and he made an excellent point - it seems like in years past winter has involved many minor snowstorms that deposit a few inches at a time on the mountain throughout the winter in addition to the major snowstorms that dump a foot or two. This winter, there has literally been one snowstorm that left us a foot or so and that's it. There really haven't been any minor snowstorms this year. Just one big one and then all rain other than that. Here's to hoping that January will be more generous to us than november or december! As for today, conditions were significantly softer than this past weekend, but steep sections requiring skid turns were pretty icy and bare after a few hours of being skied up. An accurate snow description would be an inch or so of frozen granular over icy hardpack. Unlike this past weekend, however, trails such as CandySide and Lower Winter's Way were soft enough to make some carves, though not soft enough to hold any serious edge angles. It was around 20 degrees and though the forecast had called for sunshine, there were some flurries throughout the day. However, nothing accumulated due to wind and the whispy quality of the snow. The best news for today is that Whiffletree is being blown on, so by next week we should see significant reductions in traffic on superquad and the trails descending from there. Ugh. I can't stop thinking about snow. Even if just a few inches, a snowstorm depositing some accumulation would do wonders to freshen up the skiing surface of the open terrain, even if it doesn't snow enough to drop ropes on additional trails. After that rain though, the closed trails that haven't had any snowmaking are literally grass. It would take several feet of snow to open new terrain. I am longing for nitro and gondi as I am sure many others are, but it appears that we may not see their likes for many weeks.