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True. Felt like early April. Trickles and streams were flowing. Hard earned snow disappearing act. Oh well. Hopefully the melt slows down.


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Stratton was bluebird. Clouds forming on the southern windward side quickly evaporated on the leeward side. Snow was soft and easy to turn in. I had trouble finding bumps. The firm base under the spring corn just refused to bump up. But what a glorious day with no lines and a festive vibe.



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For those craving damaging winds, be careful what you wish for. My house got split in half by a massive 140 year old Norway spruce on February 3 (arctic front - 64 mph gust) and we have been displaced ever since. Gave up on getting back in house anytime soon (Statefarm is so slow and contractors can’t find help) so we are closing on a new house on Friday (out in the country, more land, higher elevation and hopefully more snow). Gonna sell the old house which will be virtually brand new…. Hopefully late spring . Damaging winds can change your life for sure. With that being said, wind gonna do what wind gonna do, so wishing for or against it won’t change anything lol.


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2” here in Albany. Pleasantly surprised. Roads are horrific. No sign of plows.


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Thanks for all of the updates today! Looking forward to some spring corn hero snow arriving soon!!


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Anyone ski today? A Little warmth, a little rain and now cold. How did the snow hold up. Icy?


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7” of cement



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35.6F / 34. All snow now. Coming down good. No accumulation yet. Drippy out.


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39.5F / 37F.  Rain.  No flakes yet.  

4" here.  Overperformer!

6 minutes ago, TalcottWx said:

Here's 0z euro rh at 7h. I'm going to buy pivotal plus for a month right now so I can take a look at 6z. But this is good a little further to the east, better than gfs for sure. 

 

https://weather.cod.edu/forecast/ has the off hour Euro runs.  

Snow started and picked up quick. S mixture of huge and tiny flakes. 36/29. Stupid warm.


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Days 3-5 Alta Snowbird. Day 4 was an epic powder day. They opened Mineral Basin just as we’re got there and we got 5 epic powder runs. We liked Alta and loved Snowbird. So many chutes, gullies, bowls! Double blacks everywhere. Took the keyhole from Alta to Snowbird. So much fun!!!

Day 2 - Deer Valley. 25” fresh but we got there late since SLC got their biggest storm in 10 years supposedly. We got about 16” in Draper at our AirBnB. Great sprawling ski area with great trees and cruisers. Some decent steeps but not a lot.




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Utah was awesome last week! Pow. Pow pow!!! We skied 5 days straight.

Day 1 - Snowbasin. 15” of freshies, much falling while we were there. Fun mountain. The lodges are ridiculous!



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Top ten day at MHM for our “last.” Deep powder turns with constant refreshers. Face shots all day long.  
 
Our flights got cancelled the next day due to a 12/06 Boston type situation in Portland Wednesday night .  We drove up Seattle to fly out of there instead.  We skied the summit at Snoqualmie at night.  Very cold but also very fun.  
Finally after more cancelled flights we made it home at 3:40am Saturday. Full 30 hours later than expected.
 

Heading to Salt Lake City tomorrow to sample some of their patented fluff n stuff. Skiing Tue-Sat at the Ikon mountains. Should be quite the adventure.


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Mount Hood Meadows is pretty legit.  Doesn’t get the credit it deserves.  Skied some pretty steep lines yesterday, heather canyon, private reserve, both super fun.  The rest of the mountain was pretty awesome too.  Snow was real good while the sun was out.  Skied a pretty legit no fall line into Heather canyon, chalky wind blown to straight up ice, had to tell myself several times “I’m a good f$&king good skier!” 

 

Not sure how to follow up Japan.  That looks like it was an amazing trip!  I’d like to make it there someday. 
 
February 1st marks the beginning of the end for snowmaking at a lot of resorts. Most places like to wrap it up before the busy school vacation week.  So go longer depending on weather and need.  Looks like a prime stretch for round the clock snowmaking the rest of this week at least down here.  

Japan is a magical place. Did 11 days of skiing on the northern island of Hokkaido followed by 3 days in Tokyo. The people, food and snowfall were all incredible. Will 1000% be going back in hopefully the not too distant future. 

About 6” here with steady moderate. Branches hanging low.


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Killington was fun today. No lines. They opened Outer limits with a ton of snow guns
going. It was so fun! Definitely get the burn. Killington also had a ton of natural trails open that were pretty thin. My skis survived too lol. Most of the brown is leaves and grass. Not as bad as it looks. The 11” really helped conditions but that boiler plate lurks beneath and shows is ugly face in places.



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I’m skiing solo at Killington tomorrow if anyone is going and wants to meet up lmk.


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Kirkwood… 163” in January so far. 80” past 7 days.

Wolf Creek is awesome btw: Also, been watching Taos webcams - doing a lot of skiing vicariously this season so far! pounding snow there right now. They have a 40-50+ base right now too.