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About an inch down so far…nice to see the 2” mud layer on the driveway white again.

Jay today… the bad…most natural trails are done; some are very done and have streams where the snow was a week ago. It was misty and wet until the changeover around 3 and there is standing water near the lift loads the good…snowmaking trails are soft and there is full coverage. Baring another absolute torch stretch like the last four days, they will make it into April and jet and Haynes should go til may. There are some very skiable glades with good coverage, especially up top. It’s snowing now and I wouldn’t be surprised to see a 4 spot by tomorrow and what’s out there should hold through this week. And the mountain is empty, so zero lines anywhere… best part…with soft snow and an empty mountain, my son was able to conquer his first black glades today. He couldn’t have been more excited today, even in absolute shit conditions. One advantage of the soft slow snow is it makes some harder pitches and woods within reach for them and builds some confidence. Overall, great day.

Snowing at about 2200’..mixing at the base. I’m a little more optimistic for 3-4 here based on the 3k, but we’ll see. Not going to change much but maybe make the snowmaking trails a little more fun and fill in some gaps.

Hoping Saturday rain changing to Sunday snow might help, but the trend seems to be warmer and warmer with less backside.

Breck…

Absolutely fantastic skiing at Breckenridge today. Such a cool mountain and so much diverse terrain. Literally skied from almost first chair to last and still only got to about 25 percent of the mountain. Best conditions of the year for me.

A fun challenge!

Having a home mountain is such an advantage. 100 percent agree on the trails that are icy even if it’s 3” an hour. Every mountain has them. Upper goat at jay, that pitchy spot on t line or right off the mountain triple at Stowe, upper fis at sugarbush, lower east fall at Killington, just to name a few. I find one big advantage is getting around the mountain. I’ll be like “I want to hit this glade or trail one more time” and know I can do it and cut to where I need to be to get home.

No one goes to jay to ski upper goat…you actually seem pretty knowledgeable sometimes, despite the trolling, but this is one of your more ridiculous comments.

Or those with solid medical benefits. Has that been open this year?

You would think I’d say jay, but honestly, I’ve heard great things about the kids programs at smuggs and they do have basically a whole mountain (Morse) dedicated to beginners. I would look to a non epic/ikon with less traffic. Also, I think late season is a great time for kids to learn..less traffic, no frigid northern greens weather and soft snow. Don’t have to spend an hour layering them up either only to hear “dad I’m hot” before you walk out the door into sun zero temps.

Best wishes for your procedure.

Classic upslope enhancement all week with these little clipper disturbances...good call by @Ginx snewx a week or so ago. Like the way it should be in the northern greens. Enjoy your laps, bro. I’m not back for another couple weeks, but pattern doesn’t look terrible through mid-month for us.

Over performers for Jay on all three they are reporting another 6 this morning....the missing upslope magic this season came through, though Friday was anything but beefy. Still, great to see the powder in the woods again. Was almost a guarantee since I’m in Jersey this week. Starting to feel like I have the phin effect on winter. You guys don’t do well with us fake NNE’ers.

Sugarbush didn’t run slidebrook this year due to staffing issues, but I wonder if they would have had enough snow to run it for more than a week or so even if they had the staff with those totals so far?

Great memory and interesting similarity as places in south Jersey are well above average this year while up at Jay and Stowe, struggling to keep out of all time bad territory. That can’t be a coincidence.

Really only one torch day away from being alone with 61.

Seeing it within two inches of the infamous 15-16 and hearing how bare it is near phin really hit home. I think we can still have some decent stretches (maybe next week) but it has become a “pick your days carefully” kind of season. And though I’m sure there will be a couple deep powder days that make us forget, having this little base might bite us late March into early April. Smuggs only scraped together 27 trails today and nothing at that top of Madonna. That’s pretty crazy. Same for jay. I guess we’ll see. I’ll be in Breckinridge the second week of March. It will be interesting to see how they are out west. I haven’t really followed the western season since the early season Tahoe dump.

With most of Vermont only on groomed snowmaking trails right now, I was checking the Mansfield stake data this morning to see how bad it really is right now. It finally set in. Since 1962, only 3 season had less snow at the stake on todays date and all 3 were within two inches. Sixty seasons. I know we’ll get some help tomorrow and next week, but wow.

You’re doing better than up here…bright echoes are south of here just slamming into Mansfield.

Yeah, no joke today. Jay says 80 mph gusts up top and no upper mountain lifts today.

A beefy 8 on Friday, 10 with the first shot and 6 with the second get us two feet in a week and back to good skiing. My hope and prediction. And let’s loose these 50s to single digits for a bit.

Yeah, this is tropical. Days like this make some people put away their skis for the season and focus on spring; forgetting deep winter might be 48 hours away at any given point.

regardless of Friday up here, looks like finally a decent signal for some upslope love next week.

You can borrow my jay peak ruler and be there by the end of next week?