CCHurricane

Road tripped from Boston up just south of Jackson, ME.

Totality is a whole other ballgame.

Kudos to my buddy’s Samsung Galaxy, wildly good camera setup for a phone!

2 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Stake probably at 100 by now

Yup, that information is plotted with a +1 day lag. 

1 hour ago, psv88 said:

How much snow does Stowe average in April?

Looks like Mt. Mansfield COOP station stopped reporting data to NWS database in 2017, but the prior 20-year average was around 20 inches in the month of April. Judging by the Mansfield Snow Stake monitoring (at elevation), this is just the amount of snow to fend off the melt season snowpack cliff...

17 minutes ago, Prismshine Productions said:

GEFS shifted south btw

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Did they? Looks to me like the 18z GEFS moved pretty meaningfully inland / warmer for SNE.

1 hour ago, mreaves said:

I don’t know a lot about ski area operations but I bet they looked at how much money they make early vs April. No excuse for the lack of communication though. 

This is one of the potential downsides with the proliferation of passes sold by Ikon / Epic. Late season, I can assure you the mountains know their mix of clientele. With that mix likely skewing to passholders vs. lift-ticket purchases, it's a massive conflict when it comes to the right customer decision vs. right corporate decision.

Throw in the fact that many mountains have already sent home their out-of-country employees, and they have even less ability to run at full capacity.

31 minutes ago, DavisStraight said:

I'm leaving for Florida the 2nd, good chance this will happen. 

right there with you...a cruel game.

6 minutes ago, ineedsnow said:

nice 48 spot in SE ma lol

40" in 6 hours, now that would be something...

8 hours ago, sankaty said:

Killington also had a plowing mess on Sunday. The Skyeship parking lot was still a partially plowed mess at 10AM causing traffic on Rt 4 to back up all the way to Bridgewater Corners (about a 20 minute backup). I've never seen anything like that even on the busiest holiday weekends. I skied Pico but had to wait in the backup to get there. Parking was a challenge at Pico, too, but that was mostly just because of the limited space.

What a run we've had, though. Between this past weekend and the weekend of the 9th, it's been a 10 out of 10 March.

Widespread +30" over the past week, with the 06z GFS hinting at another +30" before it's all said and done. We can hope! 

11 hours ago, powderfreak said:

The bolded is a tough miss by a ski area’s contracted plow service.  A huge miss.  Contracts would be in jeopardy at most areas if you aren’t dug out and plowed by arrival time in the morning.  Especially late season when early plowing bids may start coming in not long afterward following the season.

You need those parking lots dialed on busy post-storm days to maximize parking and efficiency.  Front end loaders, dump trucks with plows, the tractors with 7 foot wheels… every tool needs to be out on those days.

Particularly with the ski/mountain business model evolving to emphasize food & beverage purchases on a day when the mountain should be packed. Throughout the day the Governor Lodge had plenty of space inside and felt like a decent Thursday/Friday, rather than jam packed Sunday. 

1 hour ago, Angus said:

I referenced in a previous post the backup on 93 getting off at the Lincoln exit Sunday morning. I got caught in a similar backup - thankfully I was off the highway - on 112 over MLK weekend. From the off-ramp to the main entrance is almost 3 miles and it took us at least 30 minutes to get by there. When we passed by, they were turning cars around b/c the parking was full. I would have been ballistic as a customer. 

A lot of unhappy people on what should have been the best day of the year. Silver lining was the lack of lines at Governor Lodge since no one could park in the main lot! 

Absurd they don't have a digital sign down near main street indicating the parking situation at each of their lots. 

Deep winter feel at Loon on Saturday / Sunday with free refills followed by a bluebird day of soft turns. Hard to not have fun, even with the comedy of errors by management, impacting morning enjoyment.

As of 7AM on Sunday Loon's main lodge parking (which is the majority of their parking), had yet to be plowed. With snow wrapping up prior to midnight the night before, was shocked to see how poorly snow removal was handled. Perhaps due to lack of resources, or maybe the Ikon / Boyne Special! 

Just about wrapped up here in Lincoln, NH.

A little bummed the heavy banding that the HRRR and NAM predicted would swing through, never made its way up here, but I have nothing to complain about!

Quite the day here at Loon. Plenty of soft and fun bumps today, tomorrow should bring the best groomers of the season.

Difficulty to measure while enjoying the day, but easily over a foot.

Have gotten lucky this week with a rental here in Lincoln, NH. Have used it as home base for mid-winter feeling days at Loon, Sugarbush, and Sunday River. Will do my best to report in a handful of times in between runs at Loon tomorrow AM.

11 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

NAM clowns are great. Lets go. What a LOL solution.

Live look here at Loon after seeing the afternoon model guidance...

12z 3k NAM isn't messing around this evening for many northern mountains. Even here in the Whites (Cannon, Loon, Bretton Woods). Spitting out 4-6+ inch possibilities, yet time will tell. Has been all over the place from run to run. 

Disclosure: My model observations are biased as I am at Loon

1 hour ago, mreaves said:

I think he was saying that open-1:00 was when the skiing was the best. 

Thanks Mreaves, nailed it!

1 hour ago, WinterWolf said:

Looks incredible.  But Why was it only open til 1 pm? 

Oh, sorry for poor phrasing. Mid-mountain to base started to slush up around 1:30-ish. Upper half stayed solid throughout!

25 minutes ago, alex said:

Skin conditions were amazing today with the 3” fresh powder from last night. Glades were open and skied great, and you could still find untouched snow at 2 pm. Everyone has given up lol

Sugarbush did not disappoint. A solid 4-6 inches of fresh snow mountain wide last night. Open to 1PM delivered mid-winter like skiing after +foot dump two weekends ago.

Still coming down at a good clip @ Sugarbush base.

Still holding on the decent rates down Mid-Cape. Looking like 6” could be in sight.

2 minutes ago, Radtechwxman said:

That's insane. Kind of what I figured. Big ol' fatties. Easily getting 2-3in/hr rates there now if not more. 

Definitely dealing with a decent amount of compaction and melting from underneath, don't believe it's adding up quite as much as we thought, but still awesome to watch.

Mid-Cape. Impressive flake size and pouring snow.

Looking forward to CCB bands later today on Cape Cod

Accumulating down on Cape Cod. Should do well and may have a legitimate shot at clearing +8”.