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Yeah, I know. Just bustin. That fake shit combined with our fake rulers is what gets us to 350 every year except this year. You were spot on about the upslope missing this year.

Wtf did we do?

Man, I hope you’re right. That’s what’s been missing this year; those constant “fixer” upslope snows. Yesterday was the first time in a while, where I didn’t crave that one more run. I did 5 or 6 runs and then was like “why”. The mountains with less crowds are the place to be right now where the grooming holds up.

The pack can probably handle it, but the timing is crap for the mountains. I was at Stowe today and the surface is “un-good”. Add in rain to flash freeze and president weekend crowds (I would think it brings out some less experienced people also) and pf and staff are going to have their hands full. What I noticed today was not that it was unskiable, but stopping or slowing is obviously much more difficult and with crowded slopes and people stopping in the middle of narrow sections, it’s a recipe for crashes. Def give credit to their ops though for trying to put together a surface with the garbage thaw/freeze.

Took a ride to where the Olympians train today; Burke. First time there..cool mountain. It seemed like it was made for speed. The woods looked cool too, but after dipping in once, it was pretty bad conditions. Anything natural was also garbage, but the groomers were fast and fun and in great shape. Hit jay in the afternoon and the 2” up top really made a difference. Upper tramside glades were legit packed powder. What a difference from Burke. Really dreading this upcoming thaw/freeze. It’s gonna destroy the Vt mountains that relay on natural. Hoping for a more productive March and maybe a little help fixing it from the weekend clipper. Def want to hit Burke again with good snow.

The average up here is in the 3s and the generous resort reporting has me at 162”. Been a terrible year for upslope and not looking like anything big through months end so barring an epic March, this will be WELL below normal up here. Never know with March, though.

The kind of cold that burned once you got some speed. Still decent day, though.

Jay was def hard pack, but not un-skiable. The glades above about 2800’ were actually pretty close to packed powder. Once below mid mountain though, different story and the few bumped up trails below mid mountain were like going over ice boulders. Pick your spots and stay up high and all and all, not bad.

We should be able to report 15-20 out if that @PhineasC

Lol..when the snow report has really been lacking, I head out to a snowmaking whale with a yard stick.

NNE too? We seem to keep seeing these torch rain events out 7-10 days away that start trending colder as they get closer. Just get the feeling we get burnt by one eventually.

Makes sense…that’s what that bread and butter look is I guess. Would be a great look up here. You do well with that too, right?

Active gfs run…be nice if we could keep it all snow.

Weird how it all landed in Randolph.

the magic of tower 16…But I bet andre’s and north glade are waist deep.

SNE, NNE, or widespread everyone gets in on it? Haven’t seen the Euro.

Great shots…I think I rode the tram with that guy last week. I remember the jacket and him explaining his videos.

Come west my friend.

Wow…I can’t argue with that.

From cutter to 24 plus is how you turn a season around!! This was a nice save and over performer. Guaranteed it when I left weds night. Jay was reporting 19 mid day with more to come.

Sugarbush FTW…lol.

Nice timing..you’re going to have the best weekend of the season so far. Hit the face if that’s your thing. There’s about ten days a year it’s really on and forgiving and I bet Saturday is one of them.

I completely get it. Radar is tough because I know for a fact it’s a bad spot. There will be nothing on radar and I’ll check the spotlights before bed and be shocked to see it snowing. Even watching it come in during a storm, the echoes will die out near Richford and it will be be coming down outside. PF pointed this out once and I definitely notice it now. If there’s any moisture nearby at night, you are guaranteed to see flakes once half way up 242. 3k nam seems to be the best at seeing it, but it misses stuff and also can be high on totals. PF can school us all on the meteorology, but the healthy Mansfield dusting is sometimes more like 2-3 here and I think that adds up…but to the original point, I would question,….but believe the 8 too.

Na, I get it. Jay really has everything going for it to put up top numbers, but it’s easy to question it when there’s no real way to verify and they pull these numbers. Knowing what I know about the staff and management from the little time I’ve been up here, I get the impression that they are pretty transparent and not into the number inflating game. Truth is I think 141 is probably a little low for the first week of February. But again, I’m just going by skiing and comparing it and have no real way to tell the difference between 10 of powder and 13. Let’s see what they report by the weekend. I actually thought sugarbush would be the big VT winner with this.

If Mansfield is 111 on the season, then 141 is not ridiculous. I skied both mountains the same day and there is a difference in coverage. They pulled 5 out of their ass last Friday and it was deep in the woods. Skied off after the weekend, but even I was surprised. I really can’t wait to get a full season up there to get some accurate numbers, but you can’t compare it to your spot.