The Southeast Thread.

[stec06]

Eyeballing Wintergreen for next weekend, but it's not looking good. Same shit happened last year between Christmas and New Years and they had to shut everything down for a week.

[SumJongGuy]

Two weekday tickets, pockets full of leftover ham and fried chicken, tank of gas to get me and the kid up here for a couple hours today. Mashed tater 60 degrees by 1pm. Still hellafun though.. and pretty cheap.



365 glorious feet of vert. Harry would dig this place. Reminds me of Buck Hill Minnesota.

Edit, photos didn't stick humm..

[jables]

Working on throwing the groms in the car this afternoon to see how this storm develops in NC. I swear last night I saw forecasts of 8-10" but this morning reading forecast 2-4" which seems more realistic. Easy jokes to be made here too.

Will report on what we find.

[SumJongGuy]

Working on throwing the groms in the car this afternoon to see how this storm develops in NC. I swear last night I saw forecasts of 8-10" but this morning reading forecast 2-4" which seems more realistic. Easy jokes to be made here too.

Will report on what we find.

Excellent. Looking like wet heavy snow but it will help replenish the base. They will pack it all down tomorrow night to help prolong the season best they can.

If it were only a few degrees colder we'd be looking at a legit powder day Sunday night/Monday morning.

[jables]

Awoke to rain in Maggie Valley, was not inspiring at all. Just shy of the top of the mountain road leading to Catalahooche it finally turned to snow. Wet, wet snow.

Groms and I skied most of the day with just one candy bar and hot chocolate (coffee for dad) break. Going to try and get a few hours in the morning, should be sunny. Snow was fun. Kids had a blast. I expect it to be kind of empty tomorrow, today we waited in lines every lap.

I saw a small kid not get off at the top of the quad and the lift turn the corner and almost make it out from under the station before it was stopped. The "stop bar" or whatever you want to call it was laying on the ground. Two chairs later a young teen girl didn't load well and fell off the chair after hanging and yelling, from about 8' or so. Luckily, she seemed OK from where I was.

[SumJongGuy]

Bumping this thread to express the DESPAIR! I was looking forward to heading up to grab a few more turns until I looked t the web cams. I can't remember another time in my 20 years here where first weekend in March was BARELY open. Unless they can push some snow around to get the top of Appalachian Big Appal open I'm gonna pass on the 3 hour drive up there to pay full price and ski half of 365 vert. I think they are trying to hang on because a big slopestyle park contest is still scheduled there so cannibalizing the part to push snow over to the main big trail probably isn't going to happen.

Oh well. Glad I did get a couple days this season but this totally sucks!

[Sam Apoc]

Bumping this thread to express the DESPAIR! I was looking forward to heading up to grab a few more turns until I looked t the web cams. I can't remember another time in my 20 years here where first weekend in March was BARELY open. Unless they can push some snow around to get the top of Appalachian Big Appal open I'm gonna pass on the 3 hour drive up there to pay full price and ski half of 365 vert. I think they are trying to hang on because a big slopestyle park contest is still scheduled there so cannibalizing the part to push snow over to the main big trail probably isn't going to happen.

Oh well. Glad I did get a couple days this season but this totally sucks!

Definitely a disappointing season in the Southeast / Mid-Atlantic. We lucked out and got a couple really nice days at Canaan in January, but other than that it's been pretty much a wash. Still have a couple Indy days that I was hoping to use over at Bryce, but I can't imagine they'll be open much longer.

[SumJongGuy]

Looks ;ike we're getting one last gasp.. They're blowing this weekend and a few days next week. if they have something worthwhile covered I'll go next Sunday, last day of the season. Saturday should be fun too, meltdown games and pond skims most places.

[stec06]

Looks ;ike we're getting one last gasp.. They're blowing this weekend and a few days next week. if they have something worthwhile covered I'll go next Sunday, last day of the season. Saturday should be fun too, meltdown games and pond skims most places.

This is the earliest I remember Wintergreen calling it after ten years of skiing there... sucks. Usually we have a few good March weekends of slushy spring skiing on Highlands, which is super fun. I just wish they would throw some money into their mountain bike infrastructure to make up for it but they don't seem willing to do that.

Off to Crested Butte next weekend.

[SumJongGuy]

It's game on everywhere except Cattaloochee (and Wolf) this weekend. I'm gonna try to get a few laps at Apps mid day Sunday. Wonder if it might even be too cold for the pond skim.. What if it's frozen? It will be in the 20s all night and most of the morning there.

[SumJongGuy]

Gear's loaded up. Just need to suit up, load the cooler, and hit the road tomorrow morning. Looking like there will be 4 of us geezers meeting up there at Cr/Happy Appy for the end of season party/turns. It's going to be oddly cool.. Wonder if their pond skim pit will be frozen over. I'm hoping that it's still on... Lift lines thin out while that's going on.