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The vibe was great with powdery slopes, bumps, upslope snow lit up by the lights, the moon visible through the snow and we even saw an owl eating a squirrel under the lift. Just enough people to make it festive but with short lines. Magical night. . Hard to see the owl feasting but pretty cool thing to see while night skiing!!

Skied Jiminy this evening with a couple of freinds. Amazing snow quality. I have never skied soft powdery bumps while night skiing. It was fantastic!!!

1st accumlating 9am. Just cleared board at 3:00pm 6.1" 4.3F S+. Heavan on Earth!!!

My lessons at Jiminy cancelled so I took 10 runs and headed home. About 2" of fresh poweder on top of groomed corduroy. Amazing silky skiing. 8F when I left and dropped to 4F as I headed west into the Hudson Valley. Roads were not good. I hit one spot where a plow that was 2/3 as wide as the road was coming the other way and yikes. Then I hit a steep uphill that I almost couldn't get up. Glad I left when I did. Glad to be home. White knuckle drive. Clearing my snow board at 2:15 (started 8:15) and I think there will be about 4.5". Flakes are medium. Decent snow growth, but could be better.

3.25”. S+. 5F .

I’m heading to Jiminy Peak in a bit. Our morning adaptive ski lessons are on (I’m sn instructor) . Afternoon lessons are canceled. I have to balance powder ski runs with not crashing on the way home. Gonna be tough deciding when to leave! Virga here so far around Albany. 4.8F. .

Awesome, congrats. That’s a nice set up! Git it!! [emoji3555] .

So.......you folks that live near a ski area.......how bad was the damage?

Jiminy's program is part of Stride and we also have a program at Catamount which probably is about an hour from Sundown. I can show them the pics you posted and see if we could offer a similar setup if you want? Unless you already looked into it? LMK.

Thank you! So glad you found something that works for you!!

Like this. .

Wow, that’s awesome! I don’t think we have bi-skis like that at Jiminy? Ours all have parallel skis and the skier uses outrigger poles or attached outriggers. We ski behind them with tethers. Are you tethered when you ski? I’d love to see a video if you have one. I want to show this to our director. I also skied with you at Berkshire East way back in the day at a forum ski get together. So glad you are still going out there! .

What kind of adaptive skiing do you do? I started teaching adaptive skiing at Jiminy Peak last year. It's amazing the variety of options out there to get almost anyone who wants to ski out there!

1st day of the season for me today at Killington. Snow was pretty darn good quality for November. Some nice soft bumps on Snowden. 13K vertical to get those ski legs going!!

I lived in Baltimore from 1969-1985 and then went to Albany for college and never left the area. Cool to hear snow stories from before I arrived. 79 and 83 were the 2 epic storms from my childhood and were my snow weenie seeds. .

I was actually in school at Suny Albany. Albany actually did pretty well my first 3 years of college. 63”, 81”, 77” and then the 88/89 disaster 19”. January 87 was epic. It pretty much note every Tuesday and Sunday the whole month I ended up with over 30” on the ground. .

I couldn’t find killington‘s annual snowfall for my freshman year in 1985-86 but I did find 86/87 (233”)and 87/88 (238”) and 88/89 (202”) my other three years. For comparison they’re at 223 inches so far this year so I guess they got a decent amount of upslope and it wasn’t as bad in the mountains of Vermont as it was in the more populated areas. I was coming from Baltimore so it seemed like a shit ton of snow to me ha ha.

Wow, that’s crazy looking. Never saw anything like that. .

Killington skied into June 7 years in a row in the 80’s (82-88). Interesting that people kept referencing the 80’s this winter. Good for upslope in VT I guess. .

From Killington snow report: “Snowmaking: The average snow depth on Double Dipper is around 11' and the average snow depth on East Fall is approximately 10.5'. Even with tons of snow stockpiles for spring skiing, our snowmaking team will be taking full advantage of cold temps starting on Friday. Stay tuned to see where they will be going next. “ It will be interesting to see how long they can stay open this year with the canyon plan. I remember skiing Cascade in late May, early June in the 80’s before the Superstar “Glacier” .

Such a wide trail that it almost feels like you’re out west. .

Killington was great yesterday. I really enjoyed Devil’s Fiddle (only pics I took). Haven’t skied it since college haha. What a fun trail!! Pretty windy. South sides of trails had great snow, north sides eye originally icy. Trees were great. Lots of silky packed powder. Catwalk was fun. Snow guns were cranking in the canyon. I don’t think they’ll make it to June with this plan but the spring skiing should be great with more paths down than the normal Superstar. .

Paying for elevation with lodging lol. Crazy idea. Thanks for all of the info. I have to do a bunch of research and figure something out. .

Wow, great summary. I’ve never skied in Europe, but hope to in the next winter or two. There’s lots to learn I guess about ski trips out there. So from what I gather, skiing is cheap and food is expensive? How are lodging costs compared to US? .

Wow, looks amazing! Lucky kids!! I need to plan a European ski trip! Never been. .