hurricane snow

Has anyone here ever skied in the apalachins? I noticed with hurricane season in the fall one year recently they got dumped on 3 feet or more in late october during hurricane sandy.  From what Ive heard snowshoe is the biggest place to go there.  Is that true and does anyone have any experiences from there to share?  Was hurricane snow a freak thing or is that something that is known to happen early season in that area?

I've skied Snow shoe before. They have elevation, at 5200' at the top they get a lot of snow. But the trails are a short bit of pitch and then a long run out. There is another resort beside Snowshow, Silver Creek - skied it too - same issue but in spades. The places I liked better were Timberline and Canaan Valley, they seemed to have better snow and more consistent pitch, for some reason they got a lot more snow - Winterplace is just too far south and the one timeI went there I regretted it. But all that was about 20 years ago when I spent a brief time D.C. I also got a chance to ski other smaller places like Massanutten, Bryce, Wintergreen & Ski Liberty.

http://forum.nyskiblog.com/Timberline-WV-Oct-2012-Matt-and-Pat-s-Roadtrip-td4020638.html#a4020654

http://nyskiblog.com/hurricane-sandy/

Sounds like an awesome time.  Did they ever fire up any lifts or did you hike every run?  Thats dedication.

Hiked, I skied 3 resorts in 3 days, all in the canaan valley; Whitegrass XC (awesome place on a hill with tons of BC around it), Timberline (steepest of the 3, cool vibe around it), and Canaan Valley Resort.

Here's my last shot from the last day before going home:

Awesome.  That's dedication.  How many runs do you think you got in a day?

great October stoke! I'd like to do a trip to whitegrass with the xcd setup one day

Glade Runner wrote

Awesome.  That's dedication.  How many runs do you think you got in a day?

Tough to say. It was dumping snow the first two days, on that day the sun was finally out but we had to do the long drive back so we only got two very beautiful ones in. Just thinking about it puts a smile on my face and makes me want to visit the other thread so I can yell about how powder is different in the east than in the west.

What a great way to end it:

pics look awesome as well

http://directory.nyskiblog.com/Epic-Snow-Storms-f5001460.html

ml242 wrote

tree skiing

Thankfully, I'm older an wiser now. They should drag big orange nets around the woods so no one ventures in. That would look so cool, too, with plastic safety orange separating people from the dangerous nature. Maybe they should draw lines on the trails like on the highways so people can stay in their separate lanes.