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Yea, out West ya can't compare, but not everybody can do a week-long vacation out there. Jay Peak is windy and very cold, but after a great storm, they keep the mountain powdery and even leave some of the lower trails ungroomed for light powder skiing. Since it's so cold usually, they typically don't have as many ice issues. You take a huge gondola to the very top so you're not getting wind-burned. It's far away (which is also a good thing) but the resort is awesome, and they've recently built an in-door water park when you're inside for the night.
Catamount is more aggressive skiing. And Butternut is definitely more geared towards family; that's the first place I learned to ski.
Yea, out West ya can't compare, but not everybody can do a week-long vacation out there. Jay Peak is windy and very cold, but after a great storm, they keep the mountain powdery and even leave some of the lower trails ungroomed for light powder skiing. Since it's so cold usually, they typically don't have as many ice issues. You take a huge gondola to the very top so you're not getting wind-burned. It's far away (which is also a good thing) but the resort is awesome, and they've recently built an in-door water park when you're inside for the night.
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I wasn't talking about getting wind burned when talking about wind. I was talking about the wind affecting the powder by blowing it off the trail into the woods and also compacting it badly. 60mph winds blowing on a wind affected trail and powder don't mix well. Winds are strong there when there is NO storm, forget when a powerful system is dropping 2 feet.
You get wide open untracked powder foot plus on the trails regularly? Because all I ever see from jay peak pictures is deep powder in the woods. I can't even find a descent video of on trail waist deep pow at jay peak, which they supposedly get a lot. Hell I've seen better powder at ski sundown on trail than what I've seen from jay peak.lol. Granted it's a RARE event at ski sundown. At jay peak, It's all glades. Because in all honesty I've seen better powder conditions at places like bromley and berkshire east than jay peak. I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm simply stating what I've seen. Have you scored untracked knee to waist deep powder on the trails repeatedly at jay peak?
It's far away (which is also a good thing) but the resort is awesome, and they've recently built an in-door water park when you're inside for the night.
It's not far from montreal(1.6 million people), which is bigger than boston and think how crowded wachusett is.
Water park is cool.
Wind is definitely a problem there but not every day. Of course the powder doesn't last long, but the morning after a good storm has fine skiing. They'll groom the wider trails to keep the snow packed up top. A few years back, I think it was New Years Day and everybody was hungover so people didn't go out. The night before, 6" dropped and the trails were ours. I can't say I've done waist-deep skiing there, though.
As for the Canadians, I've ran into many and most are usually pleasant-- it's not as crowded as it should be. I think most prefer Tremblant since it's inside Canada.
Of course the powder doesn't last long, but the morning after a good storm has fine skiing. They'll groom the wider trails to keep the snow packed up top. I can't say I've done waist-deep skiing there, though.
Great picture!
Yeah, any ski area even on the west gets tracked out if you come a few days after. lol
That's one thing I don't get about ec skiing. No reason to groom most of your wide trails since those would be the ones that hold untracked powder the longest!(more acreage with powder on it) Grooming at closing time is fine, but not first thing in the morning destroying the pow. EC areas tend to do a lot of grooming in the morning getting rid of powder because most people on the ec can't ski powder and complain to management if it's not cord. Sad, but true/
Video looks great! But those type of conditions exist at berkshire east.
It's nothing crazy like the video below of aspen
Watch this video....absolutely sick. Again aspen gets around the same amount of snow as jay peak. It makes no sense if you believe jay averages 350 inches a year. And the pow on that video is wide open, not extremely tight trees with drifts like what jay likes to post pics of a lot.
The snow is much drier out west. That's why Cottonwood Canyon in Utah has what's considered the best snow in NA, it's dry and they get a ton of it. I went to Alta in April once and the conditions were still fantastic.
Sick video of Aspen! They don't have that at Jay. Maybe a few times a year they could do that but like you said, the EC is so inclined to groom, groom, groom since that's what folks can ski. If Jay is averaging that much per season, then most of it's being blown off haha. I do find the best EC powder skiing (that's not saying much) and snow in general at Jay though; JMHO. Comparing Jay to other places on the EC/NE, it definitely stands out.
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Have you seen the powder out there? lol
