I’m doing my skiing off a super cheap Bolton midweek pass - I really don’t want to ski weekends, but with a snowpack this deep in E.VT and NE Slopes 1.25 hrs away, the experience and the $15 ticket are totally worth it….they’ve got plenty of snow, probably a 12+ inch base on 100% organic snow, and that snow WAS good.
I tried to stick to the groomers after I found that the ungroomed stuff had really stiff old snow after a sub-zero night and single digit to low teens during the day. Powerline was the only one I skied unrolled. The hill skies a little bit like French Alps “pistes” because there are distinct ways down the whole open face of it (the groomer helps delineate them): the top ½ of the skier’s right on Main Slope is a bowl which skies very differently on bowl’s far right, while the far skier’s left on the edge and somewhat “above” the bowl is a mostly a constant grade; Northside was rolled three groomer tracks wide right next to the T-Bar and has the most consistent pitch with the fewest undulations. There was another single groomer track on the skiers far left there, hugging the trees. All this meaning that the open face really skis like 5 different runs (6 if you add the ungroomed portion of Northside), and it skies on the whole bigger than its 340ft vertical.
Some pictures in this order: view from the lodge, view from the parking lot, Northside, Sunny Side, Main Slope “bowl,” Main Slope viewed from “the Sluice” (top rim of the bowl), Holland’s, Powerline
