Whiteface Conditions (2017 - 2018)

Snowing and snowing and snowing...

It was awesome today. Skyward was knee deep this morning, they reported 18" in 24 hours. It snowed hard last night and snowed on and off all day and it's supposed to continue. Almost no wind and nice temps too.

Website doesn't show it but they dropped the rope on Empire this afternoon and that was sweet 👍

Really nice powder bumps on pretty much everything by the end of the day. Did 30k vertical. Looking forward to tomorrow already.

Empire:

That doesn't look like Empire.

Shit, misread your post yesterday, didn’t realize that 6:15 skin was today!  Never mind my inquiry.....is that Mike with you?

Glad to see “Empire” skied well!  You think there is any chance they....um, it....officially opens anytime soon/at all, given all the new snow?

I was going to go to Killington tomorrow, but I might be changing plans.  Might bring my avy gear just in case.  

It was officially open. Rope was down.

Still one of my favorite trails anywhere!

Dude...did you do some trail widening on empire? I don’t remember it being so wide! It must have slid.

Def will not open to lift serve this weekend.  It was rock and ice before this storm, so still way too much exposed hard ice for general public to safely ski it.

10th mtn woods were good today too

Everything from mid up was amazing.  Five inches in the yard and five miles down the road and 1600 feet higher there is 18-24!

Natural snow trails still have sharks lurking. At one point today on upper cloud there were two people on my left and one on my right. Then scrap, thump they were face down rolling!  

Stick to your kmart plan. They def got more snow

ScottyJack wrote

 

Natural snow trails still have sharks lurking. At one point today on upper cloud there were two people on my left and one on my right. Then scrap, thump they were face down rolling!

That's why you NEVER go in the middle of Upper Cloud.

snoloco wrote

ScottyJack wrote

 

Natural snow trails still have sharks lurking. At one point today on upper cloud there were two people on my left and one on my right. Then scrap, thump they were face down rolling!

That's why you NEVER go in the middle of Upper Cloud.

SJ - make sure you stay away from mid-cloud bro!

JTG4eva! wrote

Still one of my favorite trails anywhere!

+1

They opened about 10 minutes early, with the gondola this time rather than just the facelift.  Gondola is so slow today.  Missing the very fast Skyeship gondola at Killington.

Little Whiteface lift won't open.  Not even staffed or close to being ready.  Made what could have been a great day mediocre at best.  No Empire or Upper Mac today I guess.

Should've stayed in Rutland overnight and gone to Killington again or really any mountain that actually cares about opening all their lifts.

Can always count on orda to cut costs at the customer's expense.

Umm.....when you tell yourself before 10am that your day is going to be mediocre at best.....it’ll be mediocre for you no matter how great it is.  You need to adjust your attitude, son!  Some of the best conditions of the year, no crowds, and you still find shit to bitch about.

<Sno inserts picture of horrific lift line he didn’t wait in>

The gondola line is totally ridiculous right now and it's running super slow and they aren't filling the cars.  No LWF or Mt Run.  Freeway Is open.  W Trail and the summit is great so I'll just spend more time up there.

My guess is they're so over budget on the lodge construction that they're being told to cut corners as much as they can to pay for it.  Like not running an essential lift on a weekend.

Or.....you are all WS, much ado about nothing!  I know you are having a great day!

Wilmington is skiing the best it has all year.  Still in very good shape now.