riverc0il
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Why are you reading this? Go get your gear ready, pack up your gear, make a sandwich, and check the weather! No need for any more information! If you didn't ski today, you really should be out there tomorrow.
Okay, with that aside, a little more information regardless. Sunday the 20th is Stowe's last day. Any one that follows my limited amount of Stowe reports knows that I only ski there on canned good days, earned turn days, discount days, or when I have a comp. Today was a comp day. But tickets are a relative "bargain" at $54 or something like that.
Yet another blue bird day *yawn* I think this is almost getting old. Yea, you know the type of day... not a cloud all day, bright sun shine, soft snow, yadda, yadda, yadda. What I wouldn't give for it to be -10F, crowded, and frozen hard packed snow conditions. Why any one skis this late into the season is beyond me. Bunch of wackos.
It never got below freezing last night so the snow was really soft to start and temps were excessively warm from the get go. Having never been up on the ridge before, I took a hike up and poked around a bit. Being solo I just played it conservative and skied back down one of the climbing gullies but it was nice to get the lay of the land. Looked like a few options might have still been in play barely via the chin but like heck I was going route finding by myself without good coverage. Good first run up top then a wicked soft and slushy Perry Merrill back to my car where I switched to alpine gear and ditched most of my clothes opting to ski in a T-shirt with no gloves. I swear it had to have hit 70 today. Fashions on the hill were easy on the eyes as folks stripped down to beat the heat.
Hammered the bumps from the Forerunner for the afternoon and just went back and forth choosing various hits from Hackett's to Goat. Upper Liftline was really nice and Lower Goat was also to my liking. As was Lookout where I enjoyed some of the best lines of the day. Hackett's was pretty thin and barely passable without going into the woods in places. Upper Starr is toast and was not fun. Hayride was enjoyable and as per usual, Liftline was a bore below the upper section. Many locations with poor lines and bad bumps, especially those areas that received the most traffic however decent lines and bumps were most of the skiers were not. Almost 100% coverage except a few minor bare spots. Even the base area looked great. Needless to say (but I will prime the pump a bit any ways
), Stowe could certainly go at least one more full week or at the minimum open next weekend with only a few trail closures and minimal need to push some snow down to the lifts at worst. No chairs went up empty today and there was a short two to three minute wait through most of the morning and early afternoon. Though I will say, I would estimate over half the customers were not paying day tickets.
Few more pics here.
Okay, with that aside, a little more information regardless. Sunday the 20th is Stowe's last day. Any one that follows my limited amount of Stowe reports knows that I only ski there on canned good days, earned turn days, discount days, or when I have a comp. Today was a comp day. But tickets are a relative "bargain" at $54 or something like that.
Yet another blue bird day *yawn* I think this is almost getting old. Yea, you know the type of day... not a cloud all day, bright sun shine, soft snow, yadda, yadda, yadda. What I wouldn't give for it to be -10F, crowded, and frozen hard packed snow conditions. Why any one skis this late into the season is beyond me. Bunch of wackos.
It never got below freezing last night so the snow was really soft to start and temps were excessively warm from the get go. Having never been up on the ridge before, I took a hike up and poked around a bit. Being solo I just played it conservative and skied back down one of the climbing gullies but it was nice to get the lay of the land. Looked like a few options might have still been in play barely via the chin but like heck I was going route finding by myself without good coverage. Good first run up top then a wicked soft and slushy Perry Merrill back to my car where I switched to alpine gear and ditched most of my clothes opting to ski in a T-shirt with no gloves. I swear it had to have hit 70 today. Fashions on the hill were easy on the eyes as folks stripped down to beat the heat.
Hammered the bumps from the Forerunner for the afternoon and just went back and forth choosing various hits from Hackett's to Goat. Upper Liftline was really nice and Lower Goat was also to my liking. As was Lookout where I enjoyed some of the best lines of the day. Hackett's was pretty thin and barely passable without going into the woods in places. Upper Starr is toast and was not fun. Hayride was enjoyable and as per usual, Liftline was a bore below the upper section. Many locations with poor lines and bad bumps, especially those areas that received the most traffic however decent lines and bumps were most of the skiers were not. Almost 100% coverage except a few minor bare spots. Even the base area looked great. Needless to say (but I will prime the pump a bit any ways
), Stowe could certainly go at least one more full week or at the minimum open next weekend with only a few trail closures and minimal need to push some snow down to the lifts at worst. No chairs went up empty today and there was a short two to three minute wait through most of the morning and early afternoon. Though I will say, I would estimate over half the customers were not paying day tickets.
Few more pics here.
