<I>(Note from the Administrator: This report was originally posted on 1/26/00. Due to our move to new servers, the date and time attributed to this post is incorrect.)</I> <BR> <BR>Skied the Valley for the first time this year. Conditions were as one might have expected arriving at 3:00 p.m. on a Sunday afternoon after what I am informed was a brutally busy weekend. They can be summarized as follows. Lots of groomed cruisers steadily icing over as the temperatures dropped by the early evening. The first couple of hours were amazingly good considering, with very little ice present. However, literally between 4:00 and 5:00 p.m., the runs went from edgeable to glare ice on the more popular runs. As usual, The Wall, Raven, and Chute were a maze of nasty iced over moguls with not much in the way of decent lines available. <BR> <BR>A rather pleasent surprise is to be found in the number of gladed areas being cleared for skiing. Nearly all of the Tannenbaum/Yodeler area is now gladed between the marked runs, with numerous piles of firewood in evidence all over the treed areas. The recent snowfall has resulted in just enough cover to make the glades enjoyable. One nice thing about night skiing is that you can poach the ostensibly closed glades and have enough light from the adjacent runs to ski within the glades. There was actually loose fluffy boot-top powder available most anywhere you veered even slighly off the beaten path. <BR> <BR>The snow-starved crowds were obscene at the day-night changeover time of 4:00 p.m., probably the worst I've ever seen since the Mardis Gras HSQ went in. However, by 8:00, the place was almost deserted. <BR> <BR>I skied until nearly 10:00 until I finally capitulated to the increasingly slick runs. Unfortunately, during the 5 minutes that I spent changing out of my boots, my skiis were ripped off by some low-life, resulting in a somewhat bad end to an evening of fine skiing.
Holiday Valley, NY 1/23/00
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