Liberty was far better on Tuesday than Whitetail was tonight. They're blowing snow hard though so hopefully it will improve rapidly.

Today's Date:
January 7, 2006
Time of Report:
6:05 AM

New Machine Made Snow:
6 To 8 Inches Last Night

This demonstrates clearly how WT can make a heck of a lot of snow with just a brief shot of cold weather. AMAZING.

Real quick update before I head out.

Skied Whitetail today (Saturday 1/7) - excellent coverage on all open trails, but Limelight is a bit narrow. They apparently blew a lot of snow last night. All trails were open except Fanciful and Snow Dancer (not sure about half-pipe).

Crowds were non-existent; guess a lot a people were watching football, weekend after New Year's Eve is traditionally slow, plus previous week's warm weather prolly got the masses thinking of something besides skiing.

Some of the new man-made had some funky moisture content, but hey, it beats rocks and mud. January thaw, mebbe, but there's still skiing and it ain't bad.

Demo day today - tried 6 new skis. I'll post a detailed report next week. Some very good skis out there.

Rode up in the Attiva bus today since my rental car agreement has limitations (main car repairs in progress.) Bus wuz pretty full thanks to a group trip organized by Aaron.

Quit complaining, and start skiing! Carpe Diem.

Sunday update on cover - much warmer today and sliders were scraping through to the ground in a few spots - specially a couple of places at the top of Limelight (usual spots), near the bottom of Limelight, and a couple of places on the sides of Bold Decision. Cover was very good elsewhere, including the troughs on Exhibition.

Exhibition was getting bumped up but the rest of the slopes were groomed. Bumps were plenty soft but not overly slushy. A couple of the more skied lines started to get some deep punch-through in certain sections (but not to dirt, etc.), which made for a few jarring lines later in the day.

Crowds were still very light.

Typical Whitetail warm day snow condition pattern. Overall, a very nice weekend at Whitetail.

Next weekend at Whitetail could get a bit dicey with holiday crowds (MLK), warm temps and possible rain this week. But most DCSki posters avoid Whitetail (and other popular areas) on holiday weekends...