Skied Jay yesterday after arriving Thursday afternoon. Started just before 9.00 am under clear conditions , lots of sun , no clouds with winds out of the south west . Temps rose to just under the freezing mark, keeping the snow dry . Overall , the conditions were hard packed snow with some loose snow on top . Glades skied ok some sections scraped down exposing roots and rocks . More popular glades showed more signs of wear and tear . Best snow was outside the ski area boundary on state side . In this area we found soft snow with lighter traffic . Open bump runs like UN provided a good work out with hard packed bumps but not icy . Groomers were Jay Peak typical , blown down to their icy granular artificial base . As always Can Am was the worst even had warning signs posted about loosing your edge and going into a dangerous slide. Who would go to Jay for the groomers anyway . Some trails were already showing signs of spring like Power line with its tilt into the sun exposing numerous rocks . This trail does not have much time left. Overall , coverage is not that deep . A warm spell and skier traffic will expose more rocks and roots in the woods. Ski it while you can . The snow depths at Jay were in line with the Mount Mansfield stake which is currently at 62 inches at a elevation of 3900 feet.
Jay Peak VT March 7 , 2014
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Patrick
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Anthony":1jo4wrln said:Hey , were you at Sauvage today . Will be there tomorrow . Would have been there today but stayed over at a friends house at Jay. How is it holding up . Getting off the Jay topic
No, I was at Sauvage yesterday Friday. I was at Ste-Marie today and Cascades tomorrow then off to Spring Break (pronanly somewhere in VT) before a Ste-Marie and Edelweiss next weekend. Race season is winding down.
Hmmm. Patrick's kids are on spring break. I wonder where they could have gone for some quality skiing at a bargain price this week? :-k :-k :-kPatrick":3ed2o15d said:
Patrick
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Tony Crocker":25ezowdt said:
Leaving late afternoon and we have to be back in town on Friday. The plan is to checkout Middlebury Snowbowl one day and two days at Mad River Glen.
Bargain : check
Great snow : check
Promising forecast : check
Fat skis (okay, midfat) in the car : check
In terms of both quantity and quality, Adam, Ben, Eddie and Mark Meisner skied 41,800 vertical today, of which 3/4 was powder.
Adam's definition of powder is usually more restrictive than admin's. What percent of powder would admin claim at Alta on 3/11?
All these Alta reports and pics we've been reading for years looked like powder to me. I guess admin needs to throw down for the cat or heli if he really wants to ski powder.admin":38q2yilg said:
Jay is claiming 30 inches from yesterday's storm... anyone there to reality check that?
Jay Peak hypes their reports but what the heck, they got snow and that is what counts . Just couldn't escape the real world to go skiing this week and now we got rain in the forecast on Saturday with one of the those west to east tracking systems dragging the warm air northwards followed by a freeze up Saturday night. Welcome to the east .
Patrick
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jamesdeluxe":2lbqcl1a said:
I was at MRG for the last 2 days. We got maybe 1-2 inches of fresh at Middlebury on Tuesday.
I just looked at the MRG. "22 inches from the storm over 30 from the week." I would say it probably pretty legit, Montpelier received 18". Fun tracking snow on the roads. I need to find time to write a TR, but I'm skiing both days this weekend.
That's pretty much my definition. The 90-100% estimates are highly questionable not because of how much is tracked but because of traverses to and runouts from the powder fall lines. Alta is Exhibit A of this, even though no question said traverses and runouts contribute to the powder lasting longer in the day.MarcC":lycp7wc8 said: