March 2010

March 2010 can suck a big fat one.

It has essentially not snowed in a month any where in New England. During what has historically been a month of big dumps. Two years in a row March has not only failed to deliver but this March is full of fail in the most epic of proportions. Put this March in the record books for all the wrong reasons and let us never revisit the subject again.

At least April will begin with a big fat weekend of sunshine. But even after recovering from a deluge, we go from famine to excessively gorged heifer with temperatures forecasted to be pushing towards nearly eighty degrees at bases making for a big fat slushy mess and melting snow without a corn cycle.

Seriously?

5 thoughts on “March 2010

  1. Steve,

    Headed to Saddleback Friday night (forecasted low of 35 in Rangeley) and Sugarloaf Saturday night (forecasted low of 37….yuck). Hopefully no inversion and the snowfields set up a little Saturday night. Any recommendations for restaurants in Rangeley?

    I agree that March sucked. I looked at the snowfall chart for Jay and it made me want to cry. Might not be too bad up there Saturday early. The face chutes should be edgable if there’s enough cover. I suspect this weeekend will be the end of them if they’re still in play.

  2. Have fun at Saddleback this weekend! I have never stopped in Rangeley for food so I have no recommendations to offer. Jay’s seasonal snow fall is pretty horrid. An epic March might have made up for the rest of the season. It was not to be.

    I originally planned on skiing Jay about 8 times this season. So far I have skied there twice and one of those times was earned turns for frozen man made on Haynes only and the other time was following three days of heavy wind that either loaded or picked clean all of the powder. I imagine the total snowfall for Jay actually makes it look like a better season than it was up there. I just never thought they got a storm that was better than all the other mountains all season.

  3. To borrow a phrase from the anglers:

    A bad day of skiing is better than a good day at work!

    I skied at Jay nine days this season and enjoyed every one of them. OK, there weren’t that many (read ANY) Vtah powder days but all things considered it was a great winter. We all went skiing, had a lot of fun doing it and I got my knee fixed so I can ski another day.

    Lighten up you fellows! In these days of global warming, you should appreciate whatever snow you get to slide on, be it powder or boilerplate.

    SBR

  4. Hey SBR,

    Thanks for the comment. Its cool that you have that outlook and perspective on skiing. My experience is that a bad day of skiing is not better than a good day at work Both because my good days at work feel really good! And also because the differences between my best and worst days of skiing are so night and day that I can not help but not have much appreciation for the bad days. We just experience the season in different ways and there is nothing wrong with either of our perspectives.

    I did have (and continue to have!) a lot of fun this season. It is my nature to compare and contrast and occasionally over analyze. Doing so does not lessen my overall level of satisfaction but can lead to disappointment when things slide towards the “worse” end of the scale. But if climate change ever lessens the ski season to all boiler plate, I would find a different activity to pursue so actively as I have been too spoiled to ski boiler plate everyday.

    Nothing wrong with loving every ski day no matter what the conditions. But also nothing wrong with really enjoying certain conditions and being a little disappointed when a “once a decade” poor season happens. Just different experiences and perhaps ways we personally choose to experience the same conditions.

    Cheers!
    -Steve

  5. OK, we agree to disagree, sort of. Perhaps my perspective comes with advanced age (52) and the fact that I live 8 hours away from Jay Peak. We milk the most out of the small hills and short “BC stashes” we have here in Muskoka but after the long drive to Vermont, I never have a problem seeing the bright side of a theoretically awful ski day at Jay. Plus, for some twisted reason, my ski partners and I seem to get really stoked in horrible weather:
    http://jonnyjay.blogspot.com/2009/01/run-of-day-on-new-years-day.html

    Anyway, keep up the great posts so I can ski vicariously while rehabbing from ACL reconstruction:
    http://jonnyjay.blogspot.com/2010/04/sbr-and-blue-toes-run-of-year-2010.html

    Maybe we will meet at Jay next season, I’ll be the guy skiing very carefully through the woods.

    SBR
    (soon to become SUPer G, due to new activity of Stand Up Paddling, possibly the best and most fun off-season training for skiers)

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