Gunstock conditions
 

Anyone have any recent (3/16/06) knowledge of the snow conditions at Gunstock?

Thanks!

Lots of information here: http://www.gunstock.com/frames_index.cfm

Gunstock to Close this Sunday
 

Bargain Rates for All Throughout the Week-end.....

see Citizen Article....

....another sign of Spring! Skiing is done for the year!

Waterville is bargain.....
 

On the 31st of March, check out Waterville Valley. The lift tickets will be a dollar that day. Usually the dollar day falls on April 1, but this year, that day falls on a Saturday. :)

Perhaps checking a post or two on this site for a Cam view and a pricing schedule would have been advantageous?

http://www.waterville.com/winter/snowrpt.asp

http://www.waterville.com/info/winter/prices.asp

http://www.waterville.com/info/winter/livecam.asp

http://images.boothcreek.com/water/cam/Park.jpg

Unfortunately PBLG,no ski area is going to tell you their skiing stinks.I think most people understand that.Did you think with the weather we have been having that it would be different than what you discovered?As far as trail count,same thing for all ski areas. BW is showing about 16-18 trails.Those are trail segments and you only need to check their website and the trailmap page shows what IS open so there should be no surprize there.It has to get better soon cuz I'm leaving to ski out west next week.Works every time!

Actually, I got that information out of a reservations person at Waterville Valley last week. She basically told me the skiing stunk, so we went to Sunday River instead - where conditions were pretty good there, given the warm weather. I'll be sure to get up to Waterville Valley for a weekend once conditions improve, to show my appreciation for their honesty.

Waterville Valley Conditions
 

We drove up to Waterville to go skiing today. On the positive side, they were discounting the tickets $5...hmmm. There was very limited terrain open and the conditions were very scratchy. The loose snow was skied off by mid day and it was glaze ice thereafter. They are talking about 6" of snow later in the week. There were very light crowds (no real lift lines), but the congestion on the trails was pretty bad. I would wait until they get more terrain open before venturing up there.

Jetskier:cool:

Jetskier:

Thanks for the heads up. Your description is pretty much what I expected. I agree that it doesn't make much sense to go skiing in New England until there is another storm. I wouldn't want to be a business catering to the outdoor snow sports this year.

...Bears not a-ready to hibernate just yet
 

At least one bear is still out and about here in Waterville Valley. Some large tracks showing paw prints and claws were very easy to follow in the heavy wet snow, just 1/2" deep, on a cross-country ski trail, yesterday. Usually, most years, the black bears around these here woods, take to hibernating on about December 7, Pearl Harbor Day, but not this year.

Are they staying up so's they go do the terrific Gunstock night-tubing runs, under the lights, or what?

CONDITIONS and TRAIL REPORT for GUNSTOCK TODAYhttp://www.gunstock.com/mountain/report.php

http://www.winnipesaukee.com/photopo...20ski_lift.JPG

Photo by mcdude Jan. 1, 2003. Note: lake is frozen!

....rain.....what rain...did it rain here?....no-way!
 

So, what do war fighting reports and ski condition reports have in common? The reporters can be creative with their timeliness and totally leave out certain hot words like 'civil war' and 'rain.' Rain is called the "r-word" and is definately not what people want to hear/read on a snow condition report. It's a competative business and probably all the large ski areas practice creative reporting except maybe state owned Cannon Mountain.
Not a mention of the r-word on Belknap County owned Gunstock Mountain's website, even though Monday's weather was a very r-word type of a day.
At 3:50am, the Waterville Valley temperature is now a rainy 39 degrees according to my thermometer, and that obviously is very warm for Jan 2. ....anyone for waterskiing!

Right on both counts.I have a place at Cannon and it was not a pretty overnight or Monday.First,plenty of ice built up overnight with winds blowing 50 - 60 mph.I thought the roof of my house was gonna blow off!Interesting ice build up on my car.Only one side had ice and the other had none from the direction of the wind.It's a pretty sad situation this year and the forecast doesn't look any different.Headed to British Columbia Thursday where the website says there is 10 ft(yes ten feet) of settled snowpack at the lodge.Lucky me.

Siksukr:

Watch out for avalanches out there and bring some of the white stuff back with you!

50s the next few days!
 

I just checked the weather report and it is going to be about 50 through the weekend up there. It is going to be 60 in Boston on Saturday.

I hate to think that Al Gore got something right:laugh:

Bad news for skiing so far!

Jetskier

Unfourtanetly, I wouldn't be surprised to see some of the smaller ski areas close for the weekend, given what is headed their way this week. Pray for snow and cold!!! This is getting ridiculus.

74 degrees today in Haverhill MASS
 

74 Degrees at SkiBradford at Haverhill, MASS where there is NO SNOW on ANY SLOPES!!! :emb: Toughest for the southern ski areas - nothing down here - not even cold enough temps at night to make the stuff!