<I>(Note from the Administrator: This report was originally posted on 3/14/00. Due to our move to new servers, the date and time attributed to this post is incorrect.)</I> <BR> <BR>Hard to find anything positive about skiing at Mt Snow yesterday. Took a <BR>half bus load of HS'ers and while they were OK, the day was not real <BR>enjoyable. Early start didn't pay. Black ice over Hogback jackknifed a <BR>trailer truck delaying us over 45 minutes. Trail offerings were minimal. <BR>Good for mid April, but this is early March. North Face bullet proof Ice <BR>with heavy sugar on two trails (racing on another). Sunbrook one way down, <BR>Carinthia one or maybe two ways down but all funnelled to one place. Main <BR>face best options were untravelled areas on the sides of the two bowls and a <BR>few of the hidden intermediate trails on the lower mountain, but those were <BR>difficult to get to with big ice and heavy sugar in travelled areas. Lift <BR>lines short, but with few trails and with even moderate traffic stuff became <BR>treacherous. Had to pick lines through the crowds cause the trees were all <BR>spent. Began to snow lightly around noon giving some hold to icy trail <BR>edges where there was no grooming. Actually the best places were sides of <BR>intermediate trails where there had been no grooming. But most of that was <BR>a bit chattery. A freezing mist in the morning yielded to light snow at <BR>noon, about an hour of light rain and sleet then the last hour, heavy snow. <BR>Visability was fairly poor all day. And with heavy snow, the ride back over <BR>Hogback was slooow. <BR> <BR>The area picked up about 9" of snow so things are promising. Not sure about <BR>change over to rain. Rain/snow line was below Greenfield, Mass. But <BR>without substantial snow, Mt. Snow is cooked.
Mt. Snow, VT 3/11/00
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