I would say it was about 70% open. Both peaks were open although the peak serviced by the incredibly slow triple chair only had two trails open. We only went up that one a couple times. There were two ungroomed trails open on the 6 person high speed serviced peak.
After we finished up, we ventured into the bar. To our pleasant surprise, complementary buffalo wings awaited us.
From Ragged, we trekked to Freedom, NH to stay with some friends. On Saturday, January 16th, we tackled Wildcat with some discount tix we purchased from Liftopia.com.
I love Wildcat because of their superfast quad that takes you from the very bottom 2000' to the very top. This makes from some nice, long runs. In fact on our first trip down, Mary remarked about how long the run was as this was her first visit to Wildcat.
You can't really beat the view of Mount Washington from Wildcat. It's literally right across the street. You also get a nice view looking east from the summit that I had never really noticed before.
We capitalized on a nice $25 midweek ticket at Tenney Mountain on Friday, January 22nd. Tenney has 1400 vertical feet serviced almost entirely by an ancient double chair. It's ok though because you get nice views of the Baker River valley and the southern White Mountains.
The mountain was practically deserted. The groomed trails stayed cuordory-like all day and there was a good amount of powder on the ungroomed trails left from a snow storm a few days earlier.
I've heard that quite a bit of snow was lost to the wam spell and
rain we had about a week ago. I'm glad that I was able to take advantage of the snow we've had so far on three January trips. Hopefully February will bring a couple of blizzards to provide for some good March skiing.
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