PowderBeard

The youtube video makes me think A LOT of rock and ledge as it can be seen in a few frames. Comparing it to Red Line or Chute/Liftline at MRG I would agree 2' of settled. I had one contact me via PM on a ski forum regarding an incident when someone fell off a lift. I had captured the image form the resort webcam of the skier dangling from the lift about 20' up and he wanted to know about it. Apparently the area had blasted the chairs with snowguns and not cleaned them which led to some people slipping off chairs that day.

If you do some Killington math I bet you could scrape 900' out of it.

It's the Dutch Hill of Massachusetts, in a nice snow spot. I have been to Dutch Hill when Mount Snow was only on man-made and that place had plenty of base. There are some sneaky good areas east of the Berks with 500-700' of vert with consistent intermediate and legit advanced slope. Most are single lane fire road wide or with thinned out glades. Two of which only need about an 8" base. Haven't had the best experience in the Berkshires, more ledge and you're skiing hiking trails or going to scratch your goggles up on branches. There is one place I have been able to hit twice with a friend that was 800-900' of consistent advanced/expert vert - similar to Ripcord at Mount Snow for pitch and as wide as Broomstick at Magic or Misery Whip at Sugarloaf - that was well maintained by the power companies. I would take it over Greylock's Thunderbolt any day. This should be on everyone's to-do list during a good winter. I'm all for rope-ducking in the "right" circumstances but these would need a ton of snow to ski safely. https://nebackcountry.blogspot.com/2013/01/trip-report-mohawk-trail-slides.html

https://www.newenglandskihistory.com/ Solid as well. I love the lift history details, just learned the chair at Watatic was from Diamond Hill, RI. That place has some seriously steep little chutes.

The days of free uphill are quickly disappearing.

Happy to hear about the local beavers keeping Watatic in good shape. Probably in better shape than Mittersill was when Cannon opened it - then destroyed it. That is some serious base over 600' of vert. I'm curious what Brodie trails look like but don't want to risk a trespassing violation, apparently they are really strict there. Maple Valley is still pretty cleared out minus some grundel floss. I have always wanted to hit the upper liftline section given the ledge bands but it would need a ton of snow.

Damn that is tough. 20 mins south and just under 4" on October 30th and 4.5" for the 12/5 storm.

Enough for tubing I see lol.

That stretch from just east of Athol into southern NH just south of Concord should keep going for quite a while. Another decent area to watch.

Have to love parachutes falling from the sky. Beautiful sight. Excited to see what bands pivot or areas build. First time having a decent radar subscription.

Boom. Pronounced with an "Umpty".

Every time I hike Negus I wish they had built the ski area there lol. 1000'+ of vert, a ton more snow, and steeper with few ledges.

Jackspot. Going to be an amazing day there.

42* around 5am, down to 34.2* now. All snow is around 800', stations at 300-500* still around 39*. Another amazingly tight gradient like the October 30 storm.

Quickly changing over here, more flakes now.

That was two systems, the second system put down 15-20" of that which fell the second night (and only 3-4" was forecasted and we grabbed 18").

Well looking more like a Mount Toby or powerlines in Brookfield for skinning.

HRRR wants to do another Dec 3rd 2019 26" crushing for central Mass lol. It did nail that. Still thinking 6-8" here.

Can always adjust up...or down.

Exactly my thought.

Solid. Alpinezone has a 5-6 page thread ranting about Vail right now and the lack of communication. Pretty frustrating situation.

No update from Wildcat or Sunapee in a while which is ridiculous, Cannon says this weekend is doubtful, Loon and BW are pretty immune to wind holds. I would say the only options that are open will be good to go. I'd be eyeing Sunday River.

Plan a flight out west for 4 days where there are two resorts close by (e.g., Idaho) and it REALLY makes it worth it. My plan next year.

I should have proof read and expanded that thought, my bad. It's an amazing incentive for some and there are also many people who could not care less about it and just see a higher season pass price. For example we have family friends in the UK with a place at Attitash, they come to the U.S. from November - April to stay at their condo and ski Attitash and Wildcat. Those are the only places they ski. They went from paying ~$550 for an unlimited Peak Resort Pass to spending more on the Epic Pass that has incentives they will never use, meanwhile they have one of the slowest and most unreliable summit lifts in existence. Once people have a "home hill" maybe they are just comfortable. Everyone at Magic was super excited with the Indy Pass the first year, since we all had free days to ski Bolton, Jay, Platty, etc. I don't know one person there who skied them and they were free. And most of them drove right by Plattekill to get to/from Magic. Seeing your latest post PF about first time visitors and beginners, I would agree this group and weekend trippers benefit most.

Looks like gusts close to 50 right on the shore. I bet there are some 70mph gusts by the end.