Guns going on Upper Double Dipper, Upper East Fall, Downdraft Headwall (except the top near the walkway) as well as a few on Great Northern near the bottom of the Snowdon Poma, and a single gun on Great Northern on the hill just past the bottom of the Northridge Triple. While taking runs on Northridge the snowmakers were getting more guns going, they lit up Great Northern from Rime all the way back around to the bottom of North Ridge, and snowmakers were hiking up Killink...
Overall pretty good skiing on Rime, the snow on Reason was good with some granular conditions on skiers left, Double Dipper guns started out dry at the top but they were putting down much wetter base snow down lower, Upper East Fall has areas of water and no snow with wet base building snow being blown up top. Towards the bottom of Lower East Fall they were blowing snow from both sides of the trail and the trail was covered pretty much edge to edge and the guns were much drier as the base was already down.
Ran into Shortski, skiing on some short skis
, good to see you out there! Every chair on the Triple had people on it with a short liftline at the bottom. Trails weren't too crowded but Rime was steadily being used. Temps in the 20's and mostly cloudy with the sun coming out from time to time.The hike back up took me about 8 minutes with 2 short breaks. Not too bad a hike but it did take a bit of energy to do it.
Overall a good first day at The Beast!
Snowmaking on Downdraft Headwall, looking up from Great Northern
Upper Double Dipper
Rime
Snowgun going just past the North Ridge Triple
Rime
The Reason terrain park
Upper East Fall
Upper East Fall
Northridge
Looking down Great Northern from Rime
Looking down Downdraft Headwall
Upper Great Northern
Guns going on Great Northern from Rime down to bottom of the Triple
Looking from the parking lot to Skye Peak
Guns going near the bottom of the Snowdon Poma, and a view of Killington Peak
