Quote :

"They could have a cold spell and last all of March or go the complete opposite direction"

This. Spring Break last year, the NC mountains got up to a foot of snow. Easy foot at Grandfather. Sugar Mountain got about 11 inches, so we hit that up. AND since it was in early March, the March Madness discounts were in full force.

1/26/2010 11:56:46 AM

I was thinking of going to Whitetail, PA this weekend. Not sure what the conditions are going to be like because of the warm front the northeast had this week but then now its supposed to snow and be in the 20-30's. Not sure how much snow they'll get or if it will even be worth going up there.

1/26/2010 12:13:48 PM

Wednesday
Thursday
Flyday
Snowboarday
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Snowmobilday
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Flyday

1/27/2010 12:38:16 AM

every time i plan one of these things, i regret not making it longer...

1/27/2010 3:38:00 PM

shit's gonna be awesome in Snowshoe this weekend

1/27/2010 3:40:37 PM

I'm supposed to go to Snowshoe this weekend (leaving tomorrow), but I'm a little worried about driving home. My first day of work is Monday and I can't get stuck in WV.

1/28/2010 8:46:12 PM

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"Anyone going to snowshoe want to let me tag along?! I could break up your pricing!! At this point it looks like I'm going by myself..."

EPIC TWW SNOW GO 2010.

If someone would organize it, I might even risk going with you people.

1/28/2010 8:47:28 PM

if you have a capable vehicle you should be fine on sunday coming home. just allow the possibility of a 10 hr drive. but if you need to move across the roads and go about it sensibly you should be able to reach your destination.

1/28/2010 9:06:06 PM

Going out Sunday to teach the n00bs how to ski. Wish us luck!

1/28/2010 9:44:25 PM

heading out of asheville at 6 AM tomorrow

told my boss if i get home sunday and there's no lights in my house, i'm going to keep on rolling down to charlotte i really hope WNC doesn't get owned again in this storm

1/28/2010 10:15:59 PM

What's the quickest/easiest way to get to Snowshoe from Raleigh?

1/29/2010 12:24:25 PM

^ I went last weekend and took 220 out of Greensboro to Roanoke and then hit 64, wasn't too bad

1/29/2010 12:30:54 PM

I'm wondering how 220 will be with the weather.

1/29/2010 12:48:34 PM

best way from raleigh is take I-40W to business 40W into downtown Winston-Salem. Take US 52 North to I-74 W to I-77 North to I-64 E. From I-64 E take exit 269 (HWY 219 North). HWY 219 No takes you right past Marlington WV and straight to the entrance to Snowshoe.

1/29/2010 12:50:34 PM

^^^

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"Raleigh-Durham, Greensboro Area: North on US-220 to Roanoke and on to Clifton Forge, VA, then I-64 West to White Sulphur Springs, then 92 North to WV-39 West to Marlinton, WV; and 26 miles North on US-219 to Snowshoe. (Highway 92 is a very drivable route from I-64 to WV39)."

directions from snowshoe's website. Last few years I've driven a different route each time, both there and back, and those are the best I've found. They're used to snow up that way so that put down salt/gravel, and plow often.

1/29/2010 12:52:03 PM

^^ That's the way I usually go, and it looks the safest since there should be better road conditions on highways.

1/29/2010 1:00:47 PM

Thing went well today though I was a bit frustrated when I would tell the one girl what to do and she would reply, "IKNOWIKNOWIKNOWIKNOW!" and not do what I was telling her

1/31/2010 7:14:35 AM

how was snowshoe over the weekend? powdery i'm sure. let's hear it from those of you who went up there.

i was at wintergreen for 7 hours or so on saturday. conditions were pretty fantastic. i was one of the first people to hit the slopes on saturday morning. i strapped right by the ticket window, went about 10 yards and sank in the powder. had to basically butter off of the back end to make it to the bottom of the green so i could move over to the blacks. the blacks were in great shape. the people that shouldn't have been on the blacks, and kept falling, created kickers everywhere from powder they pushed up. i rode the 6 person lift by myself for basically the first 3 hours. after that i was never on it with more than 3 other people.

2/1/2010 8:53:53 AM

went to blue mountain in the poconos last night

cheap lift tickets for sunday evening session

kinda LOLZ

stayed off in the "double black" areas most of the night, best snow and fewest people

although, they were less challenging than even a cup run at snowshoe.

whatever though, it's snowboarding an hour from my house, so it'll work for a hankerin'

2/1/2010 9:09:35 AM

the conditions at snowshoe were excellent. it snowed all day saturday and it was cold so it wasn't too crowded. sunday was clear and beautiful as well. road conditions were fine until we got to NC non-highway roads.

2/1/2010 12:55:27 PM

Snowshoe was fantastic this week. Started snowing early AM Saturday and snowed mostly all day (some times VERY HARD) and stopped around 3pm... Then we got an unexpected extra 3-4" from like 5pm until midnight.

They groomed everything (even Lower Shay) Friday night before the snow so there was clean powder on top of the freshly groomed runs.

I thought it was pretty busy at times on Saturday in the middle runs at Snowshoe but Western and the newer black's at the far end and Silver Creek were great.

We got really lucky with the conditions IMO...

2/1/2010 5:54:53 PM

anyone been out to colorado this year? what are the conditions like? it sounds like they haven't had as much snow as normal.

this is interesting...http://www.skireport.com/colorado/breckenridge/stats/

2/2/2010 5:09:20 PM

summit county really seems to be getting the shaft. dubcaps and i went out to winterpark, steamboat, and copper. copper being right next to breck and in summit county was pretty much hardpack/ice, which is a shame too big cause the mountain had a nice setup and the trails were pretty great.

if you're looking to go somewhere that has been getting good snow, go to tahoe, jackson hole, or anywhere around SLC (park city or snowbird mainly).

2/2/2010 5:26:47 PM

All this talk about going out west depresses me. My plans got shot down by work. Now I'm left with shattered dreams and plans to head to the NC mountains for a pity ride this weekend.

2/2/2010 6:52:04 PM

go to snowshoe instead. it's worth the drive. i'll probably be headed there this weekend.

2/2/2010 8:12:20 PM

wtf it's supposed to snow all this week. Why the hell did I go skiing last week?!

2/2/2010 9:44:58 PM

Heading up to Wintergreen tomorrow for a day. Just got a few more inches today, should be pretty good.

2/3/2010 12:01:42 AM

^^where'd you go last weekend? It snowed all last week at Snowshoe.

2/3/2010 8:56:37 AM

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"anyone been out to colorado this year? what are the conditions like? it sounds like they haven't had as much snow as normal. "

i've been up about 10 times or so, it's been very dry so far this season. i'd say i'd normally be at 15-16 days by Feb. but the snow just isn't as fun when you're used to powder.

still fun, still some of the best mountains in the nation. if you look in SW Colorado they just got 8 FEET!

http://www.skireport.com/colorado/wolfcreek/stats/

[Edited on February 3, 2010 at 11:48 AM. Reason : ,]

2/3/2010 11:44:06 AM

I wonder if Wintergreen will ever expand the ski areas or add more slopes. Seems as though they have the room to do so fairly easily. If anything they need to add another high speed lift to get people to the top rather than just the one lift that gets bottlenecked during heavy hours.

2/3/2010 3:43:22 PM

whoever said the snow base sucked in CO this year was correct. it wasnt awful, but compared to previous trips, it was embarrassing. there were definitely more than a couple runs where i ran over rocks.

beautiful weather this past weekend though, skiing in tshirts = win. would trade for some more powder though. ended up skipping vail and doing breck and beaver creek.

2/3/2010 4:01:23 PM

It looks like Snowshoe is going to get destroyed this weekend. The storm coming in tomorrow should bring in well over a foot of snow.


JEALOUS!

2/4/2010 4:08:11 PM

I'm heading up to Wintergreen for the day on Saturday. They're supposed to be getting almost 2 feet of snow and already got a foot and a half this week.

2/4/2010 4:27:17 PM

i'll probably just be doing wintergreen too golvoko. i was going to go to snowshoe, but i'm staying in richmond on friday night and don't really want to drive all the way to snowshoe before dawn in that kind of weather.

2/4/2010 5:43:50 PM

^are you just going for the day or saturday/sunday? I'm glad i won't be the only nutter on the road attempting to get to wintergreen

I've got a friend meeting me there from DC if I don't actually have to drive up there tomorrow and pick him up.

2/4/2010 6:00:20 PM

i'm going for the day on saturday. i went last saturday. left richmond at like 6, stopped and mcdonald's in charlottesville, and got to WG at around 830.

powder on the roads in extremely manageable. i had no problems to or from WG last weekend. also make sure you get off at exit 107 on 64. do not, i repeat, do not come down the blue ridge parkway.

2/4/2010 6:28:51 PM

I'll be coming from Raleigh. I've also got my snow/ice tires on and AWD so I hope I don't run into any issues on the way up. Glad to hear the powder on the roads was manageable last weekend.

I was thinking if i left at 5am Saturday morning I should get there by the time the slopes open and avoid any traffic congestion delays but probably experience slow speed due to the weather.

2/4/2010 7:40:49 PM

You'll be fine...

Evo, do want!

2/4/2010 7:52:17 PM

Haha yeah the evo was a blast last weekend when we got snow in Raleigh!

2/4/2010 8:31:14 PM

^^^you're going up Sunday. Fuck I'm tempted to ask you for a ride

2/4/2010 9:35:49 PM

^going up Saturday

2/4/2010 9:45:12 PM

whoops, i meant to say Saturday.

Though I'm hanging out with your roommate's sister that night.

2/4/2010 9:52:22 PM

Well if you wanted to come up with me I am driving up there solo and meeting someone there.

2/4/2010 10:20:48 PM

Just got back from Breckenridge.

Shit is awesome out there right now. So much powder.

2/4/2010 10:47:20 PM

looks like i'm gonna need to set my bindings back about 2 inches...maybe more. i really wish i had a powder board. WG is going to get absolutely destroyed tonight.

2/5/2010 8:01:29 AM

POW POW Platter. I'll be up at Wintergreen as well tomorrow. Park City in two weeks.

2/5/2010 8:42:08 AM

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"Just got back from Breckenridge. Shit is awesome out there right now. So much powder."

lol wut

2/5/2010 9:35:40 AM

^ it's all relative. for some people on the ice coast the little bit of powder they have on the ground at breck can be pretty sweet...

2/5/2010 10:30:05 AM

going out to CO 2/24-2/28, hope it starts dumping up there

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