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6 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

No rain.  In a winter month in 2025.  Love it.

It is pretty remarkable. Even in good winters we usually see a snow - snow - rain - snow - snow -  rain seesaw that builds up the pack. Having no rain mixed in at all has made the quality of the skiing amazing, even if the depth is not particularly impressive. 

16 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

It’s f*cking cold out this evening.  You feel subzero on that first deep breath.

What a winter month January was.  Average temperatures can produce a decent winter.

Photo from a friend in Stowe Hollow wondering if it snowed every day on the mountain in January?

It felt like it, even away from the Spine throughout town.  It was cold today.  Snowy month on the NW flow in ADK, VT and NH.

It’s been a great month for sure, and not just for the snow, but for the lack of cutters and warmups 

Down to -10F. 

We are under an extreme cold warning for tonight. Not sure I’ve ever seen that and not sure I like it lol. 
 

currently 13 with light snow 

About 4-5” overnight. 14” at the stake. 

Better than I expected here, about 2” so far

Aside from the consistent snow cover we’ve had, which I know is a local thing, another thing that’s been different this year is the ice. The Ammonoosuc is completely iced over, I have not seen it so frozen in a while. Could be some serious ice damming issues if we end up with a big cutter. 

In the meantime, looks like another pretty good stretch coming up, starting with the current WWA for 3-6”

1 hour ago, powderfreak said:

Yeah, like that guy in the ski thread who vacationed there recent at one of Alex’s properties and said they woke up every morning to the car covered in fresh snow.

It has been amazing to me the lack of synoptic snowfall or even precip events.  It hasn’t rained or snowed synoptically in a long time.

I guess tomorrow is synoptic but there’s an orographic assist too.  Been a while since just straight mid-level lift producing precip.

Just experienced that. My kid had a basketball game in Lisbon, past Littleton along the VT border, and there was barely an inch on the ground there. Even Littleton has very little. Bubble is a good definition; it seems like it’s been such a great January but without upslope it really hasn’t done much. But that’s easy to forget when we’ve had snow probably a good 70% of days in January 

Nice dumpage this morning. A couple of inches so far. 

5 hours ago, Layman said:

While it's not Aspen, Taos or the Matterhorn, we took the kids up to Bretton Woods for a week in mid-January.  We started at the Omni for a couple nights then moved over to a slope side home managed by @alex's company.  I don't know Alex and only found out about Bretton Woods Vacations via this forum, but would encourage anyone to give them a shot if you're looking for exceptional service and a quality stay in Northern NH.  I found their quality of service to be leaps and bounds beyond what we've experienced with AirBNB, VRBO, etc.  

It snowed every day we were up there and I believe it totaled to 6-8" over that span.  Just a little something to keep things fresh throughout.  We have always loved riding at Bretton Woods and now that our kids are as old as we were when we met, we wanted to introduce them to that same experience we've enjoyed.  We all had a blast!  

It was cold and snowy, felt like actual winter up there, and conditions were excellent.  The home was comfortable, ultra-convenient to the slopes, well maintained and managed.  The nights in the hot tub in single digits with snow flying was fun.  Getting to and from it was a shock to the system though!

It's been years since we've done a winter, snowboarding-specific getaway (due to raising the kids) but will definitely be planning another one.  It's really hard to beat slope side access and will absolutely plan to do it again.

We woke up every morning to the car re-covered in fresh snow:

 

Lots of snow everywhere, every day:

 

Hey! I just read your online review - thank you soooo much, you’re far too kind!!! I’m so glad you had a good time. It’s definitely been a nice January. I don’t particularly care for the cold and have skipped several days of skiing because of it, plus a pesky stomach bug, but while the snow isn’t as deep as it probably should be, the conditions are quite stellar. Upslope is definitely a nice insurance policy, and one of the reasons I chose Bretton Woods is that I have not found a single ski resort in the East that has such consistently good snow. A perfect combination of upslope, terrain, lack of wind, great grooming. And hey, we can drive 20 minutes to Cannon or 40 to Wildcat and be reminded that you’re still on the East Coast! Don’t get me wrong, I love those mountains too, as I love Stowe, but the snow quality does not compare. 
 

Felt that earthquake today BTW. That was bizarre. 

One of the squalls today was insane lol. Visibility was almost zero for a few minutes 

1 minute ago, DavisStraight said:

Looks like the north country can get back into the snows in the next few days. What's your depth now?

10" at the stake; not very deep, but the quality of the snow is great from a skiing perspective

Getting some decent squalls

A little light snow/flurries this morning

Down to -4. Hopefully we are done with lows like this morning (-25.2); that was just stupid painful. 

-15 with diamond dust

-9 and and it’s not even 7pm. This sucks. 
 

The Amoonoosuc River is pretty much completely frozen over. Haven’t seen it like that in a while. 

5 hours ago, OceanStWx said:

The best we can do is a 1 km by 1 km grid. 

Just ask @alex, pretty sure his forecast grid goes from like 1500 ft to 2700 ft.

Yeah, over time you learn to figure out how to adapt it. In rad cooling, go under. In cutters, go over. And most of the time, it’s a crapshoot anyways 

30 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Any diamond dust up there this morning?

Nope. But my nose hurt like hell going out and the “hot water” experiment worked great

13 minutes ago, dendrite said:

It’s been bouncing around here. The rad cold sloshes up and down the hills here along the river valleys. Was back up to -7°, but back down to -9.7° (officially -10°) I guess. 
 

Alex will stroll in with -20s this morn

(edit… -21.8°  )

Jeesus it got cold lol…

-14. Not dropping as fast, but still dropping

-13. May be fake but it’s cold as hell

-6 with deck cracking loudly 

Already down to 0F