Whiteface Conditions (2017 - 2018)

snoloco wrote

  Always seems to be a r*in event during or just before every holiday weekend.

Climate change

WF in best condition for Jan that I can recall in almost two decades of living here. Yesterday boot to shin pow!  

Snow tribe in hazardous full on mtn man weather conditions crushed it.

 

Great to hear, WF staff deserves the props.  Too bad Mother Nature is going to monkey wrench it.  However, that will give the Tribe and grooming fleet a different opportunity to shine.

Someone sacrifice something to Ullr for a decent accumulation on the back end!

ugh i cant believe over an inch of rain with temps near 50 is coming :(

Unfortunately not fake news...

Yeah, last 2 days have been great, even had sun today. Sky was super yesterday, left side early w boot top pow. Same for Mtn Run right side. Weather forecast bites, eastern winters suck.

Attn: Whiteface locals, please update us early and through the day tomorrow. I can't ski until Sunday and it looks like WF might be our best bet. Pics appreciated

Brownski wrote

Attn: Whiteface locals, please update us early and through the day tomorrow. I can't ski until Sunday and it looks like WF might be our best bet. Pics appreciated

I'll be there tomorrow ... I'll try to put up a post on Saturday night.

Its going to be ok.  “Believe me”

Best Jan in a decade to worst?

You guys are going to bounce back.

Face4Me wrote

I'll be there tomorrow ... I'll try to put up a post on Saturday night.

If Face uploads pictures of beer taps, you know it ain't good.

Snowing in lake placid?

3 inches bottom is frozen sleet. We may do ok. Lost 15 inches. Need another 10 and we are back in business.

LP just now:

Around 4” on the ground in town, snowing pretty good

Be interesting to hear reports from boots on the ground.  Hope the sliding surfaces are ok.  Mountain reporting 6 inches.

Now, I did think of starting an “Apology Thread” for you know......but I figured that might be a little cruel!  But, if conditions reports ring true it begs a revisiting of some people’s strong opinions on certain topics related to snowmaking and lifts, and maybe a new view on how mountains approach their long term terrain and snowmaking management.

Whiteface reporting 7 of 11 lifts and 60% of terrain, whereas Gore is reporting 5 of 13 lifts and 12 trails. I don’t even want to know what % of terrain that is.  Yes, Gore is probably being conservative in opening terrain.....because their average reported base is like 10 inches right now.  Whiteface reporting an average base of 37.

These observations aren’t about criticizing either mountain, or saying who is better.  Whiteface and Gore just simply have different approaches, both valid.  Where Whiteface is slower in expanding terrain and lifts, due to building more base on the trails they get open.....Gore expands terrain and lifts more quickly, at the expense of blowing as deep a base on their trails.  

Just one question for our resident angry young man.....where would you rather ski today?  I’m sure someone will say Jay/Stowe, but they have open terrain % similar to Whiteface today.

I’m ok with Whiteface’s long term, season long approach to terrain management.  Hopefully an event like this, and what’s available in the aftermath, would at least prompt Sno to expand his hardline thinking.....and MAYBE someone could say it’s a damn good thing they hadn’t blown Wilmington yet!

I actually bumped into snoloco on the summit chair this morning and we froze our asses off! Windy! Good on them for running it tho.

Today does not suck, and I’m happy I’m not a VT skier as they got skunked.

You can say that again!

Comon let's hear it! Details!  What was the terrain percentage?  

Whiteface was a pathetic shit show today.  Three lifts weren't open that should have been.  Mountain Run and Freeway could have easily been open, and Lookout could have been had they planned their snowmaking properly.  This caused lines out of the ropes on the gondola, facelift, and LWF.  I only took the summit quad once and it was running very slow and the conditions up there sucked so I didn't take it again.  The snow was great on Little Whiteface, but you were limited to the terrain above mid unless you wanted to burn half an hour in the gondola line.  If they ran Freeway you could have skied Draper's and Lower Thruway and that would have by itself made the day much better.  What could have been a great day was soured by their failure to open all the lifts, and I will not go back until they prove that they are capable of opening them.  Killington tomorrow most likely.  Thank you Max Pass!!