Mogul Sightings
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Stephen
16 hours ago
Member since 02/16/2024 🔗
108 posts

Hey folks, imagine you want to go skiing, but no one posts open trails online, and the only way you can find out is if you drive up there and buy a ticket.  Only then can you see if there's a trail to ski on.  But, if there isn't, you've driven all that way and spent all that money only to find out you can't ski.  Seems absurd, but that's kind of how it is for me.  I don't get the sense that it's like that for many other people here, but I mostly only want to go up if there are moguls.  I'm fine doing a lot of groomed run practice, but there's more than enough of that always, because top to bottom mogul trails are rare around here.  I'm also ok to ski whatever with friends and family, but to go up by myself, it's moguls or nothing.  Sometimes I put all that effort and money getting up there only to find out there really aren't moguls.  I'm so alone in this approach to skiing that the resorts do not help me out much.  Maybe some will give the grooming report, but that's a far cry from telling the mogul conditions to determine if that's how I want to spend my day.  I don't think many of you will give me much sympathy, because you're happy to be up there without moguls.  Even so, I hope for some empathy and some help.  Consider it a civic duty that helps out just me.  

Through the season, if you spot some moguls somewhere, please report it to this thread.  It's possible that there won't be much for a while, and this thread will bury, but please remember it and post to it.  I would appreciate as much detail as you are willing to give; size, shape, regularity, surface conditions, length.... but just a trail name is fine too.

wgo
14 hours ago
Member since 02/10/2004 🔗
1,746 posts

Stephen,

Thanks for starting this thread. Hopefully the weather will cooperate and we will start to see some bumps forming soon.

HokieDave
2 hours ago
Member since 01/2/2024 🔗
39 posts
The 2 local mountains where I’ve seen them allow moguls to form are Whitetail on Exhibition and Liberty on Lower Eastwind. 

I’ve been skiing Timberline more since Covid and haven’t seen a good mogul slope there. 

On one of the Whitetail webcams you’ll be able to see if Exhibitions has moguls. 
Laurel Hill Crazie
2 hours ago
Member since 08/16/2004 🔗
2,083 posts
Lower Wildcat at Laurel was powder bump heaven yesterday with very hard pack between the bumps but it is rare that Lower goes ungroomed although they will occasionally allow skier's right to bump up. Often you will find the best info on Vail resorts in their Snow and Weather report but the info is not consistent. On rare occasions the Lift and terrain status will show bumps instead of a groomer icon on trails that were left ungroomed. Stowe at 7S often has the best bumps even though Goose Bumps is their mogul run. 7S has been know to seed bumps near the top of the Spot terrain park.
Stephen
2 hours ago
Member since 02/16/2024 🔗
108 posts

Whitetail with Exhibition does a great job of supporting moguls, and with the web cam looking at it, I can determine the situation.  I've looped that trail many times.  If all the resorts were like that, I wouldn't have any problems.

7S often has moguls.  A lot of good mogul skiers go there.

I would like to get on that Lower Wildcat with bumps.

Timberline had bumps once upon a time.  It's so sad that they don't seem to have them anymore.

Often a line will show up somewhere that's just a sliver down the side, and that's good enough for me.

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