Living Proof,
Keep in mind I am a patroller (and I slept at our very comfortable patrol house the night before) and got a few runs in before the lifts opened.
The Pow, in completely unbroken form (meaning that skilled skiers could lace together unbroken streams of powder turns) lasted until @ 11am (it was a Saturday)-though by 10:30 you really had to know how to look for it.
On a weekday it would have lasted all day.
However, when you are talking about 20+ inches, skied up powder still skis like powder for the most part, we had NO scrape-off areas all day. It was deep, soft snow everywhere wire to wire. The Glades still have powder shots available in them (and not just the secret glades) for the game skier as of this morning.
And, I'm biased here, but honestly, the average skier at B'east is a good deal better than at most mountains ('cept Mad River in the east) and there are not that many snow boarders (cause we don't have a really ambitious park) so there is more proper turning happening in that snow than other places.
We did not get the winds they originally predicted and most of the mountain yesterday was a combination of creamy groomers that turned to easy moguls by 1pm and Big, soft, steeper mogul runs (and the glades still skied well...). It was as good a day of skiing as I've had in the East in a long time.
We did have the biggest crowd I've ever seen at Berkshire East on Sunday (we ran out of parking!!!...That's never happened before--still, it never felt anything close to VT crowded (in numbers or in temperament of the skiers-which I mean positively!).
B'East will be a great for all of president's week (lower crowds and lower prices that jiminy or anyplace in VT-and solid skiing for all abilities).
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