The snowmaking crew seems to be running the plant at maximum capacity to make up for what Mother Nature has withheld. I counted more than two dozen fan guns in operation last night on the single lighted top-to-bottom run that was open, with more going on adjacent trails. I’ll take quality over trail count anytime, and the skiing surfaces were as good or better as any snow I’ve been on this year.
Night skiing photos are pretty tricky to take, especially with my old beater camera. One of these days I’ll have to make it over to West during daylight hours so I can take some better photos. Here’s a recent daytime photo from West Mountain’s facebook page that appears to have been taken from about half way down Frolic, the trail we were skiing last night.
No guarantee that I'll have a report up for every Wednesday night, but I will be skiing most of them for the rest of the winter.
Jeff - I agree. The conditions really were surprisingly good. Thanks to West Mountain for their good snowmaking job.
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It was great to ski with you guys last night. I'll be back...
Sorry I couldn't make it, Jeff. I got the info, though, so I might be in at a later time. Later this month, the ACC class that I teach starts, and that has me at West on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Three nights a week might be a little too much West Mountain for me, but I'll see what I can do.
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