Plattekill, NY: 3/29/15

Ski Day 34: Some are starting to get tired of skiing, yearning for spring. I'm not tired of ski season one bit. Except maybe for those 4:30am Catskill alarms that remind me it's time to get up, post the weather on NYSB, make coffee and hit the road.


Blessed are the Bleary

But when I get to Meeker Hollow any tired crankiness slips away.  Friday night I was thinking about a rare late start, but after skiing the surprise snow on Saturday, Marcski recommend being there for first chair.


Giant Slalom

The first chair call was a good one.  My new boots are super supportive and brand new stiff and I carved out three laps on Plunge before it saw another track.




Plunge

The groomers were excellent, but we couldn't help dipping into the bumps on Plunge and Block.  First thing they were crunchy under the new snow but as the morning wore on they got softer.  Crazy people that we are, this had us thinking... trees.


Catskill Freeheel eyes the trees

We dropped in and it was surprisingly good. You were barely penetrating the snow, but somehow it wasn't scratchy.



But in the end the snow was getting so soft out on the trails, that's where we spent our time.




John T on Freefall

After ignoring the triple all day in favor of the double side, Face became the place to be after about 2:30. It softened the most in the afternoon sun and we ripped. One last time. Or two. Or five.


Cream Cheese Inspector (More Cowbell!)

At days end we headed to the bar for music, merriment and beerz.


Jan soaks it up

As Dorothy once said "There's no place like home."

Very nice. My wife wants to drop knee.. What are your suggestions?

We need to get back there.. Here is to a long long season.

Spoke to Laz last night. They usually head to NoVT or somewhere after the season ends, but with no end in site they are at Mad or Bush and headed to Bolton or somewhere farther north.

If your wife wants to tele tell her to try it.  It's a lot of exercise, even more so when you are new.  On Sunday at Plattekill Jen-K was laughing at me for stopping halfway down Block (1000 vert) to rest. She was like WTF? You wimp!

IMO for families it's a great way to equalize various skills within the family.  Getting all new gear will obviously cost you, so maybe demo first to see if she likes it.

Nice!

I do have to say that I'm a little disappointed to see Blockbuster mostly groomed.

Hey, I just realized that is my little one and her possee in the background behind Chris and his cowbell pic!

How are the woods?  Looking to get up there Friday.

The limited bumps on Blockbuster -- and everywhere else on the mountain, for that matter -- has been disappointing. On the other hand, there were already bare spots between bumps on Sunday on Block, so Laszlo may be making the right call given the snow depth.

I should note that the bumps that are there were soft and fun on Sunday.

If it's for late season snow preservation than cool but if it looked like that most of the winter I would be bummed a little. Leave a little bit of a gritty edge on the place for crying out loud!

I'm still sad the t-bar is no longer in use.

Sorry we missed each other MJ. Kind of hard to believe really.

I'm not a mogul aficionado by any means not even close.  I like the half and half thing being able to jump out if I need to. although the split isn't half and half.

One side effect of this consistently cold winter is that manmade base depths never got built up. This is the first year in a long time that Plattekill did not blow after the meter was read on Jan 21.

Sorry I missed you, too. I was only there for a couple of hours midday and then had to get home. Drove a long way for what I hoped what be a few runs of soft, sun-kissed snow, and fortunately was not disappointed.