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People are just skiing in the woods everywhere, literally everywhere. The gondi line is seeing big time poaching. Today we could watch them as we rode up. It looks unbelievably awesome and every thing is buried very deep. Trail signs are buried or just sitting on the top of the snow. If you walk around the left side of mid station lodge (looking down) you have to be careful not to hit your head on the roof. On a section of pole line on upper lift 6 the telephone cable is under the snow for about 50 ft. You could easily smack your head on the high power line and people are poaching this now. All the saplings in the lift line on upper 6 are totally buried. The cloudsplitter glades are getting difficult to ski now. The branches that used to be overhead are too thick to get through in places and belt high. If you ski under the triple on tower 10 hill you might get kicked in the head by people going up. When starting up the Mountain Run double you have to pick your feet up pretty quick or you will get stuck in the snow. The lift usually picks you up quickly and there is normally huge ground clearance like maybe 20 ft. People are poaching the stream bed above the start of lift 6, there is full snow coverage all the way across it. Upper Peron's run keeps getting wider and wider, the trees on the left side are getting fully buried and even the snow guns don't do that with over drift from the blowing. <BR> <BR>These are the best of times as everyone has been saying. From what I hear unofficially, Whiteface is gleaning the benefits of the bountiful snow year. Their skier visits and gross revenues are way ahead of any past records. Supposedly snowboarders account for about 60% of the revenues. Maybe the ski industry is dying but you couldn't tell from around here. Maybe it is just demographically rearranging.