Belleayre Conditions

From Jason:

"I skied Bell today.

Hard and icy in the A.M. Soft and dreamy in the afternoon.

I poached Cathedral Brook, it skied like a dream.."

Thanks Harv!!!
Around 11:30 the sun started to peak out and the conditions went from ok to great. All the trails still have full coverage and the woods too. Off trail was just too firm...

April 9 2011 Tons of snow left great late morning conditions a little mushy in the afternoon.

This video is from Saturday. Nice patch!



Can any Belle experts identify the trail?

Onteora I think is the trail next to Mohawk and Yahoo on the other side.

From the Belleyare Facebook Page:

"Snowmaking begins tonight which means opening day is around the corner."

And from the website:

I'll believe it when I see it! haha

Just got this:

BELLEAYRE MOUNTAIN
New York's Winter Snow Park
PO Box 313, Highmount NY 12441 845.254.5600
www.belleayre.com

BELLEAYRE MOUNTAIN CONDITION REPORT
December 3, 2011
Ski Day # 1

The Rail Park will be open today from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm on lower Wanatuska with 4 Rails- No lift access

Belleayre planned to open tomorrow 12/10 with top to bottom on Onteora (black diamond) via Chair 7 and some beginner terrain on lower mountain on Iroquois and Running Bear Via Chair 1 and a Handle Tow.  

Bell received around 2" on Friday night.  Nightmare ride to the mountain, I guess NYS only has one plow truck to hand the entire NYS Thruway.. Crowds were light . The new snow did nothing to improve the conditions. Any slope   that had any pitch was a tilted ice rink..Lower angled stuff was just hard packed and edgeable...
 The temps never got out of the upper teens , they only hand 4 snow guns running ,on Upper Bell run???
 

Anyone been to Belleayre this week?  Just trying to decide were to go in the Catskills this weekend.  Might try Plattekill though, hopefully the guns will be blasting like they were last weekend.

Skied Bell this week. They finally have a decent amount open across the whole ridge. And what is open is well covered, with a decent surface. Plattekill was great last weekend though, and the 4" they got today should make the whole surface even better.

the web cam is showing dirt..2-4"?????

temps got into the 40s....

ml242 wrote

temps got into the 40s....

The highest temperatures I saw today on both plattekill and belleayre's weather stations was about 32 degrees

Skied Belleayre Sunday the 23rd.   Three ways down conditions not bad after the rain event. Only people on upper mountain were race kids and their family. Sons cousin left poles home so they hit lower mountain for rental, They saw  lots of lessons going on and real nice snow down on lower mountain.

Good coverage on most trails off the quad and triple. Bare in some spots, but mostly avoidable. Hit bottom twice on Yahoo.. Great pow on the sides of Yahoo and Onteora..it was snowing all day today and there was maybe half an inch and still coming down when i left at 3..

Bell has a ton of terrain for closing day tomorrow. Lots and lots of snow. They could go another week.

New Belleayre Fans guns arrived today.

From Belleayre this morning:

"While we had unseasonably warm weather we did not lose much in the way of trails – thanks to the snow from the previous week and the prior snowmaking. Right now we are touching up the trails that we have open and then we are moving on to more new terrain."