I had a good day up at Liberty yesterday.  Skied from ~830am-7pm.  Everything was open and I got in tons of runs.  Sunshine with high temps, maybe close to 30.  A little breezy for a while on the front side, but the back was calm pretty much all day. Crowds VERY tolerable, with max wait all day about one minute.  Ski-on much of the day on the backside. I wondered where was everybody, but I didn't ask twice :-)  Met mephitblue and me and three of my adult children skied a few runs with him in the afternoon. Mephitblue is in a cool, month-long developmental instruction program for adults and his group looked fun and fast.

Base area around 830am:

Lower Strata on backside, note empty morning base area:

This Telepatrol was lapping Upper Eastwind for hours.  The bumps were firm, but had a little bit of soft manmade on top and they also got a dusting of natural Friday night at Liberty:

I took this shot of the main frontside chair at exactly 12 noon.  I was at the back of the line!

Lower Eastwind after dark:

Hope you're out getting some this weekend!

I was there at Liberty on Saturday, and was surprised that the crowds were not completely overwhelming. It was very very windy on the front side, which was where we had to stick to due to our group's abilities, but the lifts weren't too bad. No significant lines until around 11, then short lines until about 2, where things got crazy for a run or two, then they dropped back down to perfectly resonable again until we left a little after 3. I thought it would be much worse.

The snow was 'firm.' the wind blew pretty hard, so there wasn't much soft stuff on top, but not a lot of truly icy patches either. I guess they are calling for 4-6 inches of natural snow Tuesday of this week, We need a few more of those storms I think!

We have to get Scott to put out some DCSki stickers so we can spot each other on the slopes:-)  Of course, that might be kind of tough if 5000 people showed up. Maybe next time Eggraid.  Glad you got out.

Sounds good, JimK! We will be there again this Saturday, but I will be escorting my 5 year daughter down Dipsy Doodle for pretty much the whole day.

I'm thinking Superbowl Sunday?!?

We hit Whitetail last year on Superbowl Sunday, and crowds were way down compared to a normal weekend day. Saturday will probably be a zoo because it will be just warm enough for people to tolerate, and everyone will think that the snow will be better because of the snow this week. We have to stick to Saturday because my son is in the development program so I guess we'll just get there early and then do our best to tolerate the crowds.

Actually, I'm probably going to be there all day tomorrow 1/25, crowds or no crowds.  See PM in case you get free to make a few turns.  Hope to ski a bit with Mehphitblue too around 3pm.