A Few of the Best Pictures of the Season

The Winter Season Has Come to an End

Wow.  The 2010/2011 season was a great one to say the least.  The weather cooperated throughout the season with abundant amounts of snow and awesome skiing conditions.  From those cold January days, to the powder days in February, to the awesome spring days in March, everyone always seemed to be out there enjoying themselves. My favorite day of the season was on February 2nd.  It was an awesome powder day and it kept on snowing throughout the day.  The snow was deep and the lift lines were short, so the trails weren't too tracked out.  I remember skiing down True Grit and thinking that I had never had that much fun skiing in a long time! Unfortunately, the season does have to come to an end at some point, but summer is on it's way and there's still plenty of things to do around here.  I'm so excited for the 2011/2012 season that I've already purchased my 2011/2012 season pass!  Do you have yours yet?  We hope to see you again soon!

Late season Silver Streak Nordic Day

Wednesday, April 6

What a fine day for skiing! Last night it snowed again; two inches in Waterville Valley. When seven Nordics met at Depot parking lot we found the trails freshly groomed for us. The temperature hovered around freezing and a breeze made it feel colder. However, the sun was pouring down on us and after skiing up Lower Osceola we were so warm that we were shedding some clothing. The snow cover was perfect; amazing for this time of the year. A couple Nordics skied Moose Run and Wicked Easy, the others went up Osceola all the way to the top and down, some returning via John Deer. Even the steep section on John Deer showed no sign of deteriorating snow. On our way back we met Angel who joined us. We skied together to Bob’s Lookout for photos since today is Paul’s and my 48^th anniversary and we wanted to record our celebration. Then off to Jugtown for sandwiches. We had brought along a big bottle of red wine and Karen invited us to have lunch in her apartment which Paul has named “Karen’s Kastle”. What a beautiful place with such great views. For dessert I had baked cookie bars for our celebration and Karen made coffee to go along with them. We had such a wonderful time. Thank you very much, Karen. While we were enjoying ourselves we didn’t notice that the sun had disappeared but all of a sudden we noticed that it was snowing again.

What a great ski season we have had. I will be working as a volunteer in the Mt. Washington Observatory for a week, starting next Wednesday and won’t be able to ski. However, if the conditions allow Paul may ski again with any of you who would like to continue. To all of you a great summer until we meet again.

Fresh Powder in April?!

This is something that doesn't happen too often on the east coast.  Fresh snow in April.  This is not some April Fool's Day joke.  And on Dollar Day.  How much better can it get?  Skiing fresh snow in April for one dollar.  The people are out and about all over the mountain enjoying the fresh snow.  This morning I took some runs on Gema, Upper Bobby's and Tyler, too.  All were enjoyable and the people seemed to be enjoying the runs they took. This weekend we have our last two big events of the season.  On Saturday, we have Boxes for Days.  This is when the park takes the normal boxes and puts them together in a line to create one large and difficult box to slide.  That should be an enjoyable event to watch.  Then on Sunday, we have our Extreme Pond Skim.  Who doesn't like watching people trying to skim across a pond on their skis?  That should be an enjoyable event for everyone.  The skiing and riding this weekend look to be fantastic and we hope to see you out there!

A Midseason Day in March

What do you think of when you ski in late March?  I think of warm weather, slushy conditions, and skiing in a sweatshirt.  Well today was a throwback to January/February type weather.  It was cold and windy too.  But the sun was still shining and it looked like a spring day.  It just felt like it was January.  The people seemed to enjoy it though.  The crowds were in and the people were enjoying the snow.  As the morning went on, the winds died down and the temperatures began warming up little by little.   I started off the morning with a run down White Caps and I ended up cutting over to Tippecanoe and down to Lower Tippy.  With the wind and weather, I was a bit chilly but I went up for a few more runs.  I then took a run down Oblivion to Valley Run, which is one of my favorite runs on the mountain just for the view.  I then finished up with a run down Upper Bobby's and cut over to Upper Sel's Choice and then over to Exhibition.  The conditions varied but that is to be expected.  Hopefully the spring weather will return in the coming weeks and we can end the season on a nice warm note! -Mike

Spring Like Day

If you weren't able to make it out onto the snow today I am sorry. Spring like temps under bluebird skies a great respite from our normal February days. We spent some time doing toboggan training on True Grit this morning and every run reminded me of the great spring we had last year. Alas, more seasonal temps will be returning tomorrow night, so we will be waiting a few more weeks before tee shirt temps to arrive.

This weekend there are two big events happening at Waterville Valley; first starting tomorrow is the North Face Park and Pipe Open Series and on starting Saturday the Plymouth State Ski Team is hosting ECSC regional races. The North Face event is drawing a large group of talented rides who put on quite a show in the Exhibition park today. Exhibition received a face lift this week with a new arrangement of the rail garden and some maintenance of the airs. The regional races are bringing racers from all over the northeast to compete at Waterville, so that they may qualify for nationals. There should be some great skiing and riding to watch as well as great conditions this weekend. Hope to see you out there

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