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9” and snowing hard. Great storm!

Funny. I skied BW and it was pretty awesome. Fast snow, great consistency. A few ice patches but easy to avoid.

Hope it stays that way through September at this point

It’s pouring and the wind is insane. May be down to no pack at all tomorrow. Earliest I remember.

Awesome write up. We did do the Sunrise/Birch glades several times and they were great! Spruce Peak also generally was in better shape than Mansfield, probably due to less traffic? Bolton is on my bucket list, will probably try that last year. We have options to stay at the Lodge at Spruce Peak almost for free through a home exchange program so it’s nice and convenient but it’s fun to try different places! We are very lucky to have so much variety within short driving distance. I mean, Stowe would even be an easy day trip if we wanted, less than 2 hours drive

I have to say, it’s amazing how icy the ski trails are in spite of all that powder. Love everything about Stowe but it’s about there with Cannon for ice, it seems!

Holy squalls! Very cool when they come through

Lol how dramatic. Skied Cranmore today. Kids had their first ski race there. A fun little mountain! Got back to the big fluffy flakes falling. Let’s get some snow, it’s school vacation week! Headed to Stowe on Tuesday

Awesomeness

Talk dirty to me. NH school vacation week, will be in Bretton Woods half the week and Stowe the other half. Upslope would be great. Although I’d love to be in Stowe when it’s not a hurricane on the mountain lol

That would probably mean a record breaking March with a 70" snowpack. Just kidding. I really picked a weenie spot for my house lol - I look outside and I think - wow, not much damage. But then I drive to bring the kids to school and it looks like November. Used to bother me a lot more though... it'll be back to full white in no time. And frankly, if winter were to end here, it wouldn't be a terrible thing. I love NNE winters but they seem never ending.

No problems from the ice jam. Phew. But very cool to see the local variations in snow cover with this weather. First 2 pictures from Whitefield, other 2 from my house - both taken this morning.

Actually, it was. All the manmade trails plus a few naturals still have great coverage and the snow quality was awesome with temperature in the mid 30s and no ice at all. Completely different from 2 days ago.

Great skiing today, but the anxiety over tonight is building up. That ice jam is just sitting there... worried about the night might bring.

Nope. And the entire right side in that picture is my property lol

That’s a cool graph. Yes we saw it go up after the dam formed and it was really quick

There’s an ice dam under the bridge right by my house. A bit unsettling with more rain coming…

Heaviest squalls of the day falling now

Send us some. Just light snow here. Visually nice but the trails are in the worst shape they’ve been all season - plus they look like the checkout line at Walmart on Black Friday

Just light snow here,

Received some interesting communication about this. Several trails are closed for grooming; they did not want to groom this morning due to the timing of the frontal passage, which in order to open trails would have forced to groom before the freeze resulting in extremely packed conditions. Instead, they chose to keep the trails closed, let them freeze solid and then reopen after they've been groomed - plus some snowmaking. I actually think decisions like that are what makes this mountain so much better; I've seen plenty of times groom at Cannon with temperature in the 40s ahead of a cold front, and then the next day those trails were unskiable. This allows them to do it right.

I don’t think many outside of the upslope areas had feet to begin with

Those chairs were up to the middle of the rest just above the medallion before this nasty spell. Definitely some big losses!

It’s all already snow covered, ice is not much of a problem. The snow pretty much absorbed the water and gives you decent traction