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New cdc guidance should be a game changer for schools to reopen fully. Teachers vaccinated and new guidance means there should be no excuse not to have kids in school, full time, by next fall at the latest.

Blowing snow other than superstar on March 19th with a week of 50s ahead is pretty impressive.

Unfortunately, I think its going to be struggle to go deep into April though with the lack of recent snow. Next week and those cutters are going to hurt.

Na, I think we agree completely about the skiing. Good mid-winter, very few thaw/freeze cycles and the powder held in the woods well this year. It is snow depth, not totals. I think for me its more that I'm surprised that it didn't "feel" as low as the depths and totals were. If you asked the average ski/boarder who's not a snow weenie, I think they would never have known the depth was near a 25 year low. And where I am, if there is decent pack preservation, I don't think you notice the difference between 250" and 350". There was a solid 36" base for weeks, even at my place at 1850.

I was just looking at the Mt. Mansfield snow stake date. I didn't realize how much of a ratter snow total wise this year has been. It def felt like a decent 6 week winter period right when it should be, but if you look at the data, besides 15-16, there really hasn't been a worse year snow total wise in the last 25 or so years.

Need to save this for next year when a venture over there...never been. Heard they have decent snowmaking. Is it decent by Jan there?

Last year at Jay it was shut down a few days earlier but the weather had already turned to crap. The last few days of Feb saw the best storm cycle of the season with about 36" but by this time, there had been a rainer or two and then a flash freeze. Shutdown weekend was bad conditions and I think there would have been a bad couple weeks after that before it started snowing again if I remember.

We are below average...Like you, retention has been decent and there was a great long stretch of no warm ups/cutters so the mid Jan through early March Ski season was average to above average while the snow totals were below in my opinion.

It hit me 12-18 hours after 2nd shot...Nothing you can't handle, but a general 24 hours of feeling crappy/weak; then almost like a light switch, you feel better...that was my experience at least.

Models look to be keying in on my area up here. Let's see if this event doesn't underperform like last weekend. Should be around 6 blown around by tmrw night. Could use the help on the natural trails.

I had the shots in January...1st shot, just mild arm soreness, but more noticeable than a flu shot...2nd shot; 18-24 hours of feeling generally crappy. low grade fever, slight chills and a little weak. I def would not describe it as the full blown flu or curl up in bed sick, but I wouldn't want to do any yard work or go skiing that day. When I woke up the next day, felt totally fine by lunchtime.

Too cold...I'm usually a "just add more layers" skier, but its not worth bundling the kids up and going out for an hour with these wind chills of about -20 on the hill. The wind just goes right through you today. Tmrw looks like standard cold and breezy, which I can deal with. It just never had that snowy look today; maybe we'll be surprised tonight. One of the only times I've seen an under-performer up here.

Yeah, here too. Couple inches blown all over. Very fine snow right now that doesn’t look promising..but we’ll see.

I agree is and skier demand is going to be through the roof next year if things move toward normal...They would need to take that opportunity to hook people to the resort and make them regulars. I don't know the ownership structure. How much of a leash do they have with the place and can they survive some low numbers for a time?

Jay was similar. I was with the kids, so i stayed on the groomers and they were very firm; not so much icy except a few spots, but firm with some powder on top. 7 year old hit some ice and couldn't cut a turn and went hard into a mesh fence (guess it's there for a reason)...scary moment, but he was more scared then injured. My heart stopped for a minute tho, that's for sure.

Sounds remarkably like the jay playbook...you should be in marketing or work for a ski resort!

I know very little about this stuff, but from what I’m learning, these 850 temps and froude numbers with a slightly blocked flow look great for some high ratio upslope powder here.

Everyone here I think knows better than to doubt the numbers, but if you are from the mid-Atlantic or not familiar with the area, I would say this is a decent pack at1850’ for March. Hopefully, we can add another foot or so for a great March weekend of skiing.

Snowy and blowy couple days incoming up here. Gfs still looks the most bullish. Would be nice to grab 8-12 and a POW day tmrw. We all ways talk about it, but the best thing about the northern greens is these refreshes. Knowing that better conditions after a tough cutter or thaw/freeze are usually only a couple days away is what makes it special.

GFS looks like its getting stronger with the Thurs night/Fri signal in the northern greens.

pure poetry!

Heading back up tmrw so this would be a great refresher for Thursday and Friday. GFS looks like it keeps "snow showers" in the forecast throughout the next few days. I'm going to guess they need the refresh. Jay reported a gust near 90 on the freezer this morning so with the thaw/freeze and heavy winds, those slopes have to be pretty bad. Great news on the refresh; just hope the winds the next couple days don't blow everything down. I bet the woods on Tram side will be the best bet where all that snow lands.

Impressive liquid up by me. Nam picking up on rime or just doing the nam thing? Either way, should be good for close to a foot by the end of the week.

Yeah, not arguing about the reputation and what you’re saying about the past. The generous reports were well known. The ownership is now really just all those eb5 investors with a federal receiver until they sell, but Steve Wright has been the gm since all that shit went down a few years ago and seems like a real solid dude..even puts out emails and fb posts when they expect one of those really bad weather weekends. I think he did it right before the grinch and basically said, don’t expect good conditions so not the best weekend to come up. I’ll see if I can find it. I even see the guy out working a lift line on weekends some days so I think maybe there has been a culture change with respect to transparency. At the beginning of the year, he hosted a zoom call with all homeowners talking about what to expect this year and answering everyone’s questions. Obviously, I’m biased about my home mountain, but it seems like it has been pretty well run lately. Mountain ops did a great job getting it up and running early this year after the grinch.