Nearing the end my foot... Been at Snowshoe for over two weeks now following my time at Whistler. The temperatures have been well below freezing, over the past week it got down as low as 7 degrees at my condo. And snowing. This AM we woke up to 5 inches that fell overnight. Even with a warmup towards the weekend, the rest of the week will bring falling temps.

Conditions were excellent today.

Unfortunately, people in DC/Balt/Richmond and everywhere South and West, that tend to be the SShoe clientele, flip a switch around the 1st of April and don;t want to hear about snow. So like Rich said, one can be alone at Cupp with gobs of snow on the 1st of April.

I agree with lbotta. It is a shame that the WV resorts have to shut down when they do. Snowshoe typically has almost everything skiable when they shut down. I skied cannan on closing day about 6 years ago and they had 9" fresh and 100% open. With everyone closing though, i've always wondered if Snowshoe could profit by staying open as late as possible with limited operations, they could shut down some of their low key bars, cut some of their staff, etc, or even reopen just on weekends until they run out of snow. If they were the only provider in teh area they might get by, and pad their reputation by offering one of the longer seasons in the east. My guess is that if they maximized all their snowmaking efforts in march and maybe hit a day or two in april when it got cold enough, they might be able to make it to May in good years. It would be cool if they offered late season ski/golf packages like they do at other resorts like killington. Plus killington often stays open well into may, sometimes June with just one trail, which they blast with their snowguns almost excessively making a riduculous base that would last well into the warming months. Think of hte base snowshoe could have if they concentrated all their firepower on say ballhooter, grabhammer, and spruce glades...plus if they managed to keep that park open, my guess is a lot of the young crowd will keep showing up. So they cut their operations down to just 3-5 trails on the ballhooter lift with like 25-30 dolla lift tickets in a perfect world and we ski WV till May....any takers?

I think that would be a great idea as well. At one time, before big corporate ownership, the shoe would keep Cupp open on weekends and sell a $10 or $15 lift ticket. The only place open for food/drink was Yodlers at Whistlepunk. We skiied until the snow was gone....even had to cross some "straw snow" to make it to the lift some days and skiied the over/under on a 2' wide ribbon to get to the lift. Ahhhh the good old days!!! I would go back to the shoe if they were to do something similar.

Whitetail has enough snow to last through the 26th. With the temps warming up, the crowds will be gone by the 19th. That's my bet for Whitetail and Liberty.