Timberline on Thursday...

******, you'll be there

I'll be there third in line at the lifts

This is the most reliable conditions report for the valley;
http://www.whitegrass.com/report.html

It's looking good now.

I'd gladly take suggestions on a means to ski at T-Line tomorrow morning and make it back to UF for my environmental science exam tomorrow night! Temps were in the 20s this morning. If I had one of those backyard blizzard snow guns I would have set it up on the lawn and made a few turns this morning!

18" of snow at the 4000 ft stake. What a difference a week makes.

What're you wearing? I'll be in green/grey titanium jacket, but look for the red boots

jimmy

Should we have a small get together place at say... the ticket window at 9am? Thunderdraft lift at 9:30am? Suggestions?

There's a little information posted here:

http://www.timberlineresort.com/snowreports.asp

I'm trying to convince the webmaster to provide more specifics about what will open Thursday and what will be open on the weekend.

If I were a gambler, which I am not, I would bet that White Lightning (Upper), Cross Roads, and Woods Hole will open this weekend, but Sally, I'm afraid to say, is a long-shot at best.

John,

Do you think that T-Line would open on Thursday with only Woods Hole open?

that's what they are saying if you call 1800-snowing....woods hole only for thurs (i cant believe that!!)

Hey guys. I don't really have the inside "scoop" on snow reports because I'm not on the mountain but sitting in Northern VA where there is no snow at all. While I do get nice nuggets of info sometimes and sneak them onto this board the snow report is not one of them. That is controlled by Timberline management at the office. I suggest you check the website and call the 1800SNOWING number to get your info. I get my info there too.

Hrm, so it appears they will only have woods hole open/crossroads open?

Is there any POSSIBLE chance that they will have the midstation stop open with say... Lower White Lightening open??

Any idea which runs are open at T-Line? The site was last updated 12/14. I tell you one thing. Its good they delay opening to work on the base. Looks like they are off to a good start particularly since the weather sucked up until a week ago.

as of 9:43am, Timberline (DEC 16th) snow report says:

Crossroads | OPEN | snowmaking on-going

Fire road | snowmaking on-going

Lower Salamander | snowmaking on-going

Ceiling | snowmaking

Upper Salamander | snowmaking on-going

Woods Hole | OPEN | Snowmaking On-going. Open Today.

Lower White Lightning | snowmaking On-going

Upper White Lightning | Snowmaking On-going. Likely opening this weekend


Lifts open: 1
Trails Open: 2
Total Trails: 34


Timberline SNOW Phone
(304) 866-4828
Online Snow Reports

yo Denis,

sent you a PM, not sure if it got thru.

You gonna be in the Valley on Saturday?

We should be pulling into Chipper's lot 9:30ish.
Hope that it's good conditions for some open area fast and danger. Day one of the year may not be the best to jump into the trees just yet. Figuring Weiss, Springers and National Nordic.
If still a bit sketchy for natural turns, we're heading to T-line as a backup, prolly grab an afternoon tag, 12:30-4:30.

peace,
Tom

Hi Tom,

I got your message and replied; maybe the system doesn't work. I'm going to be at Whitetail for an instructor clinic. In truth I'd rather be at Whitegrass. Make some turns for me and say hello to Chip.

Denis

Yeah, my mailbox shows one received message, but then none show when I hit 'received mail'....weird.

Will say howdy to Chip, will definitely make some squigglies in your honor. Sorry you can't make it, enjoy Whitetail. I might swing by RT Sunday afternoon, if not, then Monday eve. Once I pick up my club card, might try to run down to Whitetail for a late week eve session.

l8r,
T

A good deal:

http://www.timberlineresort.com/coupon_01.asp

If you plan on printing multiple tickets, make sure to refresh the page, it changes the number at the bottom of the ticket. I've seen resorts do e-mail promotions that offer free lift tickets and then say that the e-mail address is the same on every copy, so they will give only one free ticket. That's a great deal though!

Thursday report for Timberline was correct. We drove down Wednesday night, got to the lodge around 11:30. Plan was to get picture taken and ski there Thursday. Glad we didn't call first or we probably wouldn't have gone. Had a couple of drinks @ Timber Pub, got word about what'd be open and headed for the house.

Anyway, we called TLine & Canaan Thurs morning, went down to pick up our passes and talked w/ Ed Worden, I think he's the SSD. He truly felt bad that Woods Hole was all they had to offer, but they're making snow like crazy. Ed said they'd be open to the mid station Friday and should have White Lightning open from the top Saturday.

We hung around wondering if bawalker made it and debating whether to boot up, go to canaan or head south to snowshoe. YEAH lets go to Snowshoe.

Good decision. They had some pretty fun stuff open between Powder Monkey and Ballhooter lift. There was a snow cat parked near the bottom of Ballhooter and we hoped maybe it would open Thursday; later in the day they had moved it and you could see mud in the tracks, the ground is still pretty warm. Conditions were good and we skied pretty hard for first day. Decided at about 1:30 to head over to Silvercreek. Neither Paul or I had ever been able to tear ourselves away from Snowshoe to go there so it seemed like a good day to check it out.

They had four or five trails open and at 2:00pm it looked like they had just groomed. We got 5 or 6 runs in before legs called it a day. Legs usually supercede desire this early in the season. We caught the shuttle back to the Top of the World, had a little tailgate party, stopped by the new Ski Barn (though that's not what it's called) at the entrance to Silver Creek and headed for home. Nine hours on the road, six hours sleep, four hours on the slopes; Crazy? maybe- Worth it? Definitly.

A nice little line we got from a very nice professor from NOVA re: why she bought her 2nd home near snoeshoe, "You don't choose West Virginia, West Virginia chooses you"

jimmy

Jimmy:

Thanks for the great information. I've been on the fence about this weekend, but I just checked the T-line web site and it is reporting UPPER WHITE LIGHTNING as open, so I guess I'll go and pick up my pass.

http://www.timberlineresort.com/snowreports.asp