Gore Conditions (2013-2014)

I don't ever remember seeing guns on Topridge this year...this season?  Today was good all things considered.  I skied Rumor before the rope came down but she said I could...It was interesting but I thought Chatiemac was best and Lies was second but eh...Sagamore and Lower Open Pit deserve honorable mention.  There was a very good spot in the woods but we do need some snow...bad.  The little bit of Powder this morning really helped.  Some of it up high was very dense as I assume there was quite a bit of wind.

I'll be there tomorrow for the first time in a while. Looking forward to the personal update. Looking even more forward to the big snow that we've been waiting on for so long (I have no idea if it's coming).

Twas just a txt I got but I sensed MP was saying they blew on Topridge before opening day?

Exact words:

"It was the 1st trail we targeted and will be again. Heading there tomorrow, so it won’t be ready this weekend."

MikeR ... you got doc's clearance?

DIG the new avatar Sponge.

good day on the mt today. i thought everything skied really well. rumor being the most fun. i <3 whalebacks!!

Hadn't been to Gore for a few weeks. The snow is actually really good, as good as it gets without more natural. Chatty was the run of the day for sure with plenty of soft snow. Rumor and Lies were edgeable styrofoam with no bumps.

Really nothing I could complain about.

They started blowing in earnest on the full length of Topridge at about 2:30.

Started out taking Uncas to the SBQ. Guns were going on Topridge. Lapped Lies 4 times early and it got more skied off and icy each time. You could actually turn on the headwall today though,at least the first few runs. Around 9:30 the SBQ started having issues again, so I headed back to TR3 and over to the Darkside. Unfortunately, the mountain does not absorb the crowds very well on a weekend when a trail pod is taken away. There was a big line at the Darkside chair already. We waited once and came back down one of the glades that was actually pretty good,it must have caught some man made blow in. When we got back down, the line was huge and backed up the hill. (Why doesn't someone tell the guys who run that chair that the corral needs to be put up first thing in the morning on a weekend? They always wait until the line is huge and these days the line is always huge at some point.) This resulted in an (EPIC!) poach of Wood-Out, which had good coverage and probably should just be opened to the North Chair and then eventually over to Burnt Ridge. Sagamore was not as good as it has been. Racers had a course along skiers left which funneled everyone together and made for icy going most of the way down. Echo had some fresh man made snow on it, but it was really inconsistent and then icy at the bottom. I skied Hedges back to the North Chair which started to have issues of it's own and stopped a bunch of times. Eventually made it back to the top (SBQ was running again by early afternoon). Rumor opened from the goat path down and was easily the run of the day, so we lapped that until it was time to go. Lots of fun. Decent snow and easy to carve. I believe the SBQ was running on diesel at the end of the day, from the sound and the smoke when they would start it back up.

YUKON CORNELIUS wrote

There was a big line at the Darkside chair already. We waited once and came back down one of the glades that was actually pretty good,it must have caught some man made blow in. When we got back down, the line was huge and backed up the hill. (Why doesn't someone tell the guys who run that chair that the corral needs to be put up first thing in the morning on a weekend? They always wait until the line is huge and these days the line is always huge at some point.) This resulted in an (EPIC!) poach of Wood-Out, which had good coverage and probably should just be opened to the North Chair and then eventually over to Burnt Ridge.

Line backing up the hill?  Sounds like a typical Saturday at Mountain Creek.

Yeah, Rumor was awesome fun today, and liftie told us that electric motor was kaput on SBQ,was running on diesel backup engine.  

it's 2/1, how can you list 2/2 yet????

evergreen wrote

it's 2/1, how can you list 2/2 yet????

Cause I know that I am going to ski.

February 2-Skied a couple of hours in the afternoon.  Conditions were nice.  Temps in the mid 30s.  A bit scrapey in spots and icy and we could really use some snow.  Hope we get some with the coming storm.  Still no glades open yet.  Very foggy at the top, making it hard to see the terrain.  They must have just blown some snow on Chattiemac as it was all bumped up.  Heart paused a bit when the SBQ stopped for a longer than usual stoppage, fearing, I might need to get rescued, since that was the lift that was shut down earlier in the weeki.  The guys I was with on the lift said that they were running it with a diesel generator earlier in the week.  Crowds not too bad at all.  As it got cloudier in the afternoon, there was a definite chill.  Best conditions found on Chattiemac and Showcase for the runs I took.

2/2 was the nicest day we skied at Gore in a long time.  The Gore website indiated 6 inhes of new snow, and that may have atually been true, on the summit.  It was kind of wet at lower elevations, but powdery on top.  Chatti skied very nicely, as did showcase to start the day.  We then sampled "an epic group poach of wood out" due to a long line at the dark side and moved over to Burnt Ridge.  Due to being "exiled by NYSEF" there was relatively little skier traffic over there, and both Sagamore and Echo had lots of fresh snow on the sides.  Echo was run of the day. After luch skied lies once (ok below headwall) and Rumor 3 times, excellent edgeable "hard styrofoam."  Great day and I believe that with the expected storm many glades will be in play this weekend. Finally!

Danzilla's pics...









...and a txt from Shaman at 2:30 pm...

"It's been dumping harder in the last hour than it has all day!"  

Sorry for the sideways iphone pics....

The last two hours yesterday were phenomenal. Must have snowed 4+ inches in that time. Perfect pow on top of cut up. People were blasting through it all over the place. I really didn't want it to end. Best day of the year for me. I see they updated the snow report to 14". Still only two glades open? Odd.

Even odder that Twister Glades is closed tomorrow, because it was open today and shouldn't have been. Hit a lot of rocks. That made me afraid to venture into Cirque Glades. The glades up top are better.

Be careful about creating new tracks in the recently opened glades. A lot of unpleasant surprises. Otherwise, conditions are (finally) awesome.

Gore is in the best shape it's been all year. Git sum.

skied thursday. skied several open and unmapped glades. be very careful. there is no base under the 12-18 inches of new snow. maybe good for a couple of slow, cautious runs before they wear out. two trees down in nugget. will need chain saw action. also, tree down across stream bed. only skied upper half of chatterbox before bailing. no enough snow. found the hardest ice ever on steilhang headwall. if you do go into the woods, make sure your skis are very fat and take your time.

frk wrote

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That's some quality beta right there. Audible?

Gore glades were getting real boney by noon today. Need another foot to really get things going.

Wow I got lucky again.  I had a few hours to ski this morning and hung at the bottom until they opened Sagamore.  Windblown powder in bumps and the last icy pitch had just enough dust on crust to feather your turns.  It was just me...and that guy that beat me to the first tracks...at one point there were 7 tracks and 4 were mine.  The masses arrived on my 5th and I headed up top.  For the most part the 2 inches of windblown and lack of crowds made for a great morning.  The woods I chose were a tad thin but I got away unscathed
I was going to take pictures but it was too bleepin cold!