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Wildcat Mountain Sunday, April 22, 2018 | |
Submitted on April 23, 2018 by rocket21 ( 1390) | ||
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Session | Full Day |
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Ticket Type | Discount from Ski Area |
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Lift Lines | 3 to 5 minutes |
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Trail Conditions | 99% open; Spring Snow, Spring Snow |
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Glades | Fully covered with mid-season base depth. Ventured into the woods between Cougar and Panther, which were great. |
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Moguls | Most of the mountain, except for Polecat-Lynx-Alley Cat-Catapult-Bobcat-Catenary-beginner trails. |
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Terrain Park(s) | None |
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Run of the Day | Tomcat Schuss |
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Food and Beverage | Cafeteria and pub still operating. |
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Comments | Wow. Late March conditions in late April. Nearly everything open, wall to wall coverage virtually everywhere (with the exception of the usual large rocks sticking up on some of the natural trails), rime on the upper elevation trees all day, blue skies. Polecat is in great shape top to bottom with zero bare spots or rocks; more April snow on this trail than I've seen in recent years. Catnap and Tomcat were not groomed; the former is getting tired where it faces south, but the latter is fine. Tomcat Schuss was wall to wall, but the rocks below the crossover were starting to poke through this afternoon; really nice wall to wall coverage with soft bumps, and the Polecat traverse back never got slow/sticky. Lynx is fully covered top to bottom with zero bare spots or rocks. Al's Folly's boulders were exposed, but it was skiable. Hairball was over my head with the cliff exposed, as was Feline with a frozen waterfall, but both were open and being skied. Cougar and Catenary were ungroomed with full coverage and bumps. The very top of Top Cat and Lift Lion were closed due to ice (ropes were being ducked late in the day, was Top Cat was beautiful when it warmed up), but the bulk of the current and former lift lines were open and skiable (I turned around on one short segment of the gondi line due to ice and skipped two short segments of the quad line due to rocks/ice, but rest was good...Sphynx was toast by the end of the day and The Chute was developing bare spots). Upper and Middle Catapult are wall to wall and good. Lower Catapult was not groomed, which made it quite nice when things softened up around lunch time. Alley Cat was wall to wall and Leo's Leap was fun. Full coverage on the two beginner slopes. Upper Wildcat was great in the afternoon, with better coverage than I can remember in April. Wildcat Pitch had some grass popping up, but lower-Lower Wildcat had nice soft bumps wall to wall. Wild Kitten was fine with full coverage, as were Bobcat and Cheetah. Lines for the quad were generally a few minutes, except for 10 to noon, when it was closer to 5 to 10 minutes. The 6 minute, 2K vertical ride made up for any lines. Managed to ski just about every trail for a total of a little over 46K vertical, which bumped the season's total over 1 million vert. Epic Wildcat day. |
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URL | https://www.instagram.com/p/Bh37EHVHcKJ |
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Report Rating | 6
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