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kwillg6

March 3, 2005

Member since 01/18/2005 🔗

2,066 posts

Johnfmh, I believe the 30"

is or was correct. They should see a few more over the next several days especially with a cold front on Saturday. NBC4 out of DC had a picture of main st. Davis with 25" on yesterdays 5 pm news. I hope to see you on the mountain this weekend.

tommo

March 3, 2005

Member since 01/16/2004 🔗

303 posts

The reports are all correct. I left my place in western Garrett County at about 11:00 this morning. I shoveled half my deck, and it was an average of about 29" deep. Driveway depth was at the limit of the snowblower ~ 24" yesterday. The woods are a nicely settled 20 - 24 with another 4" of the finest powder you will ever see on top (that 4" fell over night.) The temp when I departed was 17 degrees, the wind was at about 15 or so, and there were on and off snow showers. The XC conditions were as good as can possibly be and the downhill conditions were sublime. W didn't have time to make it down to CV, but I can certainly believe that they had 2 to 4 more inches.

Main roads, e.g. I68 and 219 in MD were in great shape. Secondary roads are completely snow covered. WV roads, particularily west of Petersburg, are likely rather treacherous

. Please be careful driving

For the record, this is turning into a FINE snow year! And this weekend stands to be one of the best in recent memory for the combination of snow, temps, daylight and crowds (or lack thereof).

andy

March 3, 2005

Member since 03/6/2004 🔗

175 posts

This is an epic dump...NO MATTER WHERE WE ARE TALKIN!! The only thing that seperates us from the big boys is the big boy...."ALMOST HEAVEN" West Virginia!! Thank you for your support.Do us RIGHT Mr. BRIGHT!!!!!!!!!!

SCWVA

March 6, 2005

Member since 07/13/2004 🔗

1,052 posts

Ok, I couldn't take it anymore. All this talk about 30" of powpow in valley. I drove up Friday am to check out the conditions for myself. I was not disappointed. Blue bird skies and tons of snow everywhere. They had groomed most of the trails with the exception of The Drop and OTW. The snow on the groomers was unbelievably silky smooth top to bottom. There was still a fair amount of freshies to be had on the Drop and OTW. After a couple of runs down OTW and the Drop we started hitting the easy to get to glades which at the start of the day had nothing but untracked powder in them. We spent the entire day in the woods. The Powder in the woods unbelievably deep. In some of the harder to get to woods there were 5'+ snow drifts you could bust through. It started to snow around 1pm and by 4:30 another 3" had fallen. Conditions only got better. There was still so much untracked powder in the woods that it was hard to leave. Hopefully the other DCSkiers that went up there Sat. am will take care of that powder for me.

Conditions were epic. There's nothing like a little Powder, West Virginia style.

andy

March 6, 2005

Member since 03/6/2004 🔗

175 posts

Just checked a few of the snowiest resorts across the country & even up in canada...WEST VA RULES!! More snow than anyone this last month & blowing everybody away the last 14 days! & it ain't over til the fat lady in the tight ski pants sings!

bawalker

March 6, 2005

Member since 12/1/2003 🔗

1,547 posts

ACK I saw that yesterday... a "larger" woman in those tiny stretched tight set of 80's ski pants. With it being 60*F here today, maybe that was the omen, not that the fat lady sings, but when she skis?