Matt Duffy
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I was there late this morning to squeeze in (not out
a couple runs before heading to the dirty "W" word. Temp was 32 degrees as of about noon when I left and it was (& surely still is) snowing like crazy. Seems colder now & there is great potentential for something big going on. It's piling up fast. Yesterday, @ 2" of snow fell before changing over to rain, then back to snow again for an additional 3 inches so far. Base depth did not suffer in the least, in fact now it's a little deeper. The previously icy upper part of Freefall is now caked with wet snow and the trail is now open top to bottom for the 1st time in a while. The mid section/headwall of Madonna Liftline is also open with the same characteristics. Weird, this is usually the last section of ML to open, but as of noon it was the only part open. Here's how the snow is as I experienced it: <BR> <BR>Untracked woods- <BR>There are random places with a fragile crust sandwiched between the two new layers of snow. But not everywhere. It is doable, but the inconsistancy of crust/no crust is far less than ideal. <BR> <BR>Tracked woods- <BR>Awesome. Soft, mashed up snow exploding all over the place. Fast. Obviously, if there was a crust layer on any of the bobsled tracks, bumps, burms & formed turns, it's all broken up now. A sudden drop in temperature would be horrid, except for the fact that it's still snowing hard. Any crunchiness created by a deep freeze should be buried deep by tonight the way things are going. <BR> <BR>Groomed trails: <BR>Soft, pushed around new snow interrupted by patches of icy scrapey yuk. Lack of visibility made the surface impossible to read, not a whole lot of fun. <BR> <BR>Tracked woods were the place to be this morning. <BR> <BR>Outlook - seems good, if not great. But it all depends on how long this puking cloud decides to hover.
a couple runs before heading to the dirty "W" word. Temp was 32 degrees as of about noon when I left and it was (& surely still is) snowing like crazy. Seems colder now & there is great potentential for something big going on. It's piling up fast. Yesterday, @ 2" of snow fell before changing over to rain, then back to snow again for an additional 3 inches so far. Base depth did not suffer in the least, in fact now it's a little deeper. The previously icy upper part of Freefall is now caked with wet snow and the trail is now open top to bottom for the 1st time in a while. The mid section/headwall of Madonna Liftline is also open with the same characteristics. Weird, this is usually the last section of ML to open, but as of noon it was the only part open. Here's how the snow is as I experienced it: <BR> <BR>Untracked woods- <BR>There are random places with a fragile crust sandwiched between the two new layers of snow. But not everywhere. It is doable, but the inconsistancy of crust/no crust is far less than ideal. <BR> <BR>Tracked woods- <BR>Awesome. Soft, mashed up snow exploding all over the place. Fast. Obviously, if there was a crust layer on any of the bobsled tracks, bumps, burms & formed turns, it's all broken up now. A sudden drop in temperature would be horrid, except for the fact that it's still snowing hard. Any crunchiness created by a deep freeze should be buried deep by tonight the way things are going. <BR> <BR>Groomed trails: <BR>Soft, pushed around new snow interrupted by patches of icy scrapey yuk. Lack of visibility made the surface impossible to read, not a whole lot of fun. <BR> <BR>Tracked woods were the place to be this morning. <BR> <BR>Outlook - seems good, if not great. But it all depends on how long this puking cloud decides to hover.