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My colleague Mark was still in town for work yesterday and my older son had the day off, so the three of us headed out for another tour on the Bolton Valley Nordic & Backcountry Network. Mark was looking for a tour that would have an ascent in the backcountry potentially followed by some rolling backcountry terrain, finishing off with a descent on some groomed alpine terrain where he could work on his Telemark turns. When he described what he was looking for, I had just the route he needed. We ascended via the Bryant Trail to the Bryant Cabin, then traversed back toward the alpine trails on the rolling terrain of North Slope and finished off with a final descent down Lower Turnpike. Temperatures had crept up into the 30s F in the valleys, so I was unsure what was going on up at the resort, but temperatures dropped as we ascended to the Village. The temperatures were below freezing at Village level, so all the snow was still in midwinter form. My younger son had been out for some lift-served skiing in the morning, and he felt the off piste snow had settled somewhat, so I was surprised to find that the powder was just as fluffy as usual out in the backcountry. We didn’t ski a ton of untracked powder on the backcountry route we took, since it had a lot of rolling terrain without many big descents, but the powder that we did hit was excellent. Just as impressive as the powder off piste was the quality of the turns we found during our final descent on Lower Turnpike. I hadn’t been there in quite a while, but I’d say it had the highest quality packed snow I’ve seen during this recent stretch. Even with lift-served traffic on Wilderness, we couldn’t find a touch of firm snow on Lower Turnpike, so it wound up being a highlight of the trip and a fantastic surface for Mark to use for practicing his Telemark turns.

Umm hmm ?? Kind of out there in a tight window we shall see?

Cutting across the region or even north of here isn’t going to get it done. Id feel good in NNE

There's a digital snow thread.

I can see the snowstorm on the gfs near the 30th come north with a better phase.

Nice snowstorm on the 30th for the area on the gfs.

0z GFS is pretty nice

ENSO thread is fine lol

Definitely warmer down your way, though colder than 18z verbatim.

https://x.com/webberweather Then there's the ENSO thread

Quite mild today. Fort Wayne, Indiana reached a record of 55F, while Detroit fell 1F shy of its record, topping out at 53F. Several other locations were within a couple of degrees of daily records.

Lights out here in Seymour

Looks kind of warm to me

A couple of weeks of normal to slightly above normal temps and the winter is over speculation has already started. Mid season form, folks. Mid season form. Relax, y’all.

Well, I just added something to my last post that may cheer you up. The models are actually suggesting a good chance this moved right back into 8 either yesterday or today! So, we might go right back to celebrating as early as tomorrow!

Oh we recognize a pattern alright

Question is will the tune change 2 weeks from now or will forecasters string us along with "not too late" pieces until it's February and we're staring down a week of 70s?

Looks like DVN canceled the winter storm warning. 90+% of the warning area received a trace or not a flake.

Yeah better run for the region.

Another troll

You have been wrong all December.

ENSO thread has transitioned to last rites, Philly is transitioning to last rites, Our med/long range thread is transitioning to last rites, NYC is hanging by a thread, NE isn't far behind.

We take.

No sooner had I said that than thunder boomed. TIMs activated. Of course this may end as snow flakes towards morning.