After the Jack Frost party at Whitegrass I made turns at Timberline on Sun. morning. Alas it did not precipitate until Sun. AM and it was rain not the hoped for snow. Nevertheless I skinned up White Lightning where a line of connected whales allowed about 600 vert. of turns. They were rain softened corn and skied like butter. I'd have taken a couple more runs but for the half dozen places where cold rain was soaking through to skin.

The cold side of this front is likely to drop 6-12" on the WV Highlands on M-Th.

Way to go... nothing wrong with some earned turns on Dec. 2nd! How much snow had they made up there? Probably even more than a foot up in the valley. I would not be surprised to see isolated totals of 12-18 inches at snowshoe and canaan. Looks like they will get some great upslope and a decent clipper on tus night-thurs! Next weekend could be great for timberline's opening day

way to go Denis! you win the hardcore award i hoped to do the same but was a little too jack frosted sunday morning to venture in the rain/drizzle. It looked like white lighting was covered top to bottom tho... minus the truckload of snow the Chase boys borrowed from tline to make a little jump at whitegrass

the rain over top of whats there, should freeze and make a nice base for the new stuff tho.

The top 3-4 whales on WL were not connected yet. Rather than take skis off or just mud ski, I skied from where the continuous snow ended, about halfway + a bit. I hope that TL gets busy during this cold snap. They have a lot of work to do if they are going to open anytime soon.

Thanks for the first hand report Denis; u'd think with the new, improved?? wesbite and mountain cam people who are interested in whats going on down there could just get on the internet and find out .

but it is timberline we're talking about....

Denis,

When you left on Sunday was there any natural snow in between the trails? Was the ground frozen?

John,

No and No, unfortunately.

That may be changing right now but I can't tell for sure; the Sods webcam is down.
http://www.fsvisimages.com/images/photos-large/doso1large.jpg

Denis:

Does chip have any interest in a webcam? I suspect he could get one of the realtors in the valley to sponsor it? It would get a lot of traffic. The Timberline webcam this year is never running.

Chip has a webcam here:

http://www.whitegrass.com/webcam/webcam.html

Nice work Dennis!Sounds like some difficult conditions.

Thinking of getting "sick" tomorrow and earning some turns at T'Line, Canaan Valley or White Grass. Anyone have an opinion on whether it's worth the drive? The White Grass report is lookin good and I'm thinking that the resort slopes with a man made base could be downright fluffy!