Whiteface Conditions (2017 - 2018)

You playing in the woods at all?  Nice to see them open and skiable!

All the glades are on little Whiteface and the gondola line is way too long (due to their failure to open LWF) I really don't have the patience to wait for it.  Took 3 laps off of it in the morning and that was enough.  I prefer to ski off the chairs since there's no lines at Freeway, Facelift, Summit, or Lookout.  I think W Trail is ROTD followed by Skyward.

The gondola is so slow right now it's actually comical.  Knowing the cabin spacing and loading interval, I clocked it around 575 fpm.  That's not even half speed.  Would take around 15 minutes to ride.

Paron's was nice up top and it's going to be my last run today.

Edit: found out why the gondola was so slow.  Messed up sensor.  Work chair being put on now.

Cloud was the run of the day. They did close the lifts 5 minutes early. The snow got better as the day went on. Everything skied great. Thin in places but all trails were fun. Lwf had a mechanical problem yesterday afternoon. The Gondi single line was 10 minutes at the busy times. Everyone I saw seemed more than satisfied with the operation today.

So you took three runs off the Gondi. Did you hit the glades off of approach, empire, and upper Mac? You at least got North way right? Let's here the trails you took of the Gondi? I want to here what a wise man like you skies.

I took three runs off the gondola first thing in the morning with no line.  Mountain Run, Upper Mac, and Upper Northway in that order.  Empire, Mac, nor the glades were officially open first thing so I poached Mac.  I probably could've done a 4th gondola lap without waiting but I already hit the trails I couldn't get to off Freeway or Summit that were open and didn't want to poach again.  I got on the Lookout chair after taking Upper Northway although my first instinct was to go to the summit.  Wilmington skied great all day but it was the best run I've ever had on it when I did it first thing.

Great three day stretch of skiing. Surprise 18” Friday followed by on and off snow and wind deposited reloads Saturday...no crowds aside from peak time Saturday, and still not a big deal.

Hopefully the trend continues and supports a solid spring skiing season.  This week lookin good.

SnoClue wrote

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.

Fake news!

SnoClue wrote

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.

Fake news!

ADmiKe wrote

Great three day stretch of skiing. Surprise 18” Friday followed by on and off snow and wind deposited reloads Saturday...no crowds aside from peak time Saturday, and still not a big deal.

Definitely a great weekend. Conditions were fantastic all over the mountain.

Not having the Little Whiteface chair yesterday due to the MECHANICAL ISSUE was definitely a bummer, but it certainly wasn't the end of the world.

SnoClue

SnoSnooze

SnoStooge

ScottyJack wrote

SnoSnooze

SnoreLoco.

^^ winner!

SnoreLoco “the adirondacks got shunked in this storm.”  Going to kmart hahahahah!!

SJ - heck of a stash. Kindly send GPS coords!!! (Jk!)
Skyward after a couple crumbs fell:

Empire!

Finally figured out how to embed! Fixed video

16" 24hrs, and still dumping. Wow.

“No one to answer to
No one that's gonna argue, no
And since I got the hold off me
I'm living life now that I'm free, yeah”

Yup.....I’m going solo!  Looks that way this weekend at least.  No need to fly west when WF is in prime, prime, prime condition.  If anybody is kicking around this weekend let me know.

Where’s this foosball table people play on?

Remember when snow said summit was closed for the winter a month ago?