Showing posts with label powder. Show all posts
Showing posts with label powder. Show all posts

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Tummy butter.

Powder weekend, HayOH!


96% occupancy over the weekend, traffic up Friday was a standstill for hours.


So Ryan passes time.


The young lion waits for his prey.


Big Foot lives at Snowshoe.


What guardrail?


What snow?


The road to fresh crotch height snow.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Again?

Im not getting my hopes up but looky here... we could be experiencing another big dump at the end of this week... Party hardy?




Also, this is on NOAA... A little other support behind the possible storm : )

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
456 AM EST TUE JAN 26 2010

NCZ002-VAZ010-011-014-017>020-022-WVZ044-271000-
ALLEGHANY NC-BLAND-GILES-MONTGOMERY-FLOYD-CRAIG-ALLEGHANY VA-BATH-
ROANOKE-MONROE-
456 AM EST TUE JAN 26 2010

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST NORTH
CAROLINA...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...WEST CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND SOUTHEAST
WEST VIRGINIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

A WINTER STORM MAY AFFECT THE REGION BY WEEKS END WITH THE
POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY SNOWFALL.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Snowshoe Park Update

As of Monday Dec. 28th, the Snowshoe basin area had both parks open.
Spruce Glades - 3 features: flat down rail, battleship rail, and a good sized kicker.
Powder Monkey Terrain Garden - 6 features: surface box, box, flat down box, up flat rail, barrel, and triangle box.

As of Tuesday Dec. 29th, Silver Creek had both parks open.
Mountaineer - 4 features: up rail, c-box, round down rail (setup semi street style), and a flat rail.
Timberjack Terrain Garden - 11 features: two flat boxes, two flat rails, down rail, three small jumps, two small small jumps, and a conical object.

Pictures of Timberjack Terrain Garden

Start it off with this box, slides real nice by the way.


First set: Small small jump and 10' or so flat rail.


Second set: Small small jump and 10' flat box that may be a bit catchy.


Third set: Conical object and 20' down rail.


Forth set: Small jump and 20' flat rail.


Fifth set: Two small jumps.


Reminder is that we are not employed, affiliated, or paid by Snowshoe or Intrawest. We just want to shed light on the parks left in the dark.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

opening ceremony

Its always nice to get home from a night's work, to find a forecast like this for you local resort, which is in dire need of some cold and snow to open up...



 -Snowshoe, WV


All that snow, then a bit of sun on what should be opening day?? Hurrrd datt.

check back soon. until then...