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Wildcat and attitash no. That’s why everyone goes to Cranmore and Bretton woods.

Jay could really use a snowmaking upgrade like you say. I’ve experienced the Jay cloud, but have also experienced a frozen, windy chunk of ice. Snowmaking is one thing Boyne does right, all their Maine mountains do an above average job with above average infrastructure but also benefit from great water sources.

The new fixed mount fan guns are expensive but incredible technology. Pleasant has invested significantly over the last 4 years in them and was able to resurface all their high traffic terrain over the past 24 hours and they are blowing a ton of snow elsewhere to get things open for MLK. Doesn’t hurt having unlimited water from the lake right next door. These are the years where resorts with the best systems really shine. Today felt like a real mid winter day. Trending next weekend into 4-6” gain would help a ton.

on like 1" qpf no less. When I was out there last spring all my local buds were complaining how they haven't had a real wasatch snow year in years, saying it might be over forever, CC has ruined the lightest snow on earth etc. etc. Actually sounded a lot like the this subforum for the past month.

This latest cutter might do it for me. Will reassess after the long weekend but I have a strong hunch I will be out west before the month is over....what a nightmare. It will stay warm and wet right through Feb vacation and then start dumping once the average consumer loses interest, now that's how you run a ski season on the east coast....

hoping for some last minute trends but not looking good. Hard to fathom another 2" rainstorm and right before MLK to boot.

Trend next week into a 5:1 paster and just shut the power off in Maine for rest of winter.

Sunset at pleasant mountain .

2” and still a snowing. This one is over performing my expectations. Winter vibe is back for snow. Skiing is bad but at least it’s white. .

It's great to see. It's been a really long time since the mountain west has gone this bananas. Hope we can get in on the fun at some point.

They're going to lose at least a month of their riding season the way it looks right now. I don't even know why the local clubs bother down here anymore. They are constantly losing access, putting in hours and hours of work for riding seasons that are lasting a month at best. The last club meeting I went to was 90% gray hair. The sport is dying down here. Still some hope for next weekend but no end in sight to AN temps.

Awesome recap, thanks for sharing your data. I don't remember the late Jan. freeze so that was interesting to see. Keith Carson posted this yesterday FWIW. Looking forward to getting out of the crap regime we've been stuck in the last 3 years.

I'm no doctor so my opinion is worth very little, and while my ten year post op ACL knee is not perfect, I'm glad I had it done. Takes maintenance and I've definitely struggled with patellar tendonitis at times but I'm not limited by it in any way (for now). I'm sure you have your reasons and don't need advice from an internet stranger but ACL's these days are practically an outpatient procedure. The qaulity of physical therapy and long term motivation to maintain is what makes the difference imo.

That's awesome! Looks like thing are firing there per usual. Are you using Indy pass?

Man the January thread is brutal right now, hate to see it. I know I'm about the only one who cares but HRRR and 3k still selling a nice little event for western into north-central Maine overnight. HRRR still the most bullish on surface temps, no surprise there. It's too bad 850s are so torched or this could've been a nice overrunning event down into the foothills. Loaf actually looks to be hanging on ok, a lot better than northern VT it seems atm and the weekend there will be salvaged by this system it seems.

NAM trending in the wrong direction it seems, HRRR more bullish with the surface temps. Gonna depend on how quickly that cold air at the surface bleeds south. I was planning on smuggs this weekend but if this keeps trending I might audible to loaf.

NAM products make things interesting for NVT and the mountains of Western Maine with the Thurs-Friday system and the flow looks good for some fake snow right into the weekend. Could be sneaky good in NVT especially Saturday and Sunday.

Just an all time start out west and every region is getting in on the action. Bodes well for a long season, I’m planning an SLC Jackson big sky trip for April and it’s always surprising just how much snow some of those places need to open up terrain. Shouldn’t be an issue this year. Meanwhile the skiing today at Pleasant Mountain was phenomenal…looks like after the midweek rain we there should be ample opportunities for snowmaking.

Route 2 in Rumford this morning. .

For mby verbatim 18z nam. This is likely overdone but there’s been a persistent signal for 3+” for my area. Not that anyone cares except for me and the guy who’s lawn sucks .

Four inches of modeled Qpf plus winds plus saturated soil is bad bad news

NAM is the Christmas miracle. Weenie hopes and dreams dependent on persistence of the famous CAD. It’s breezy out there tonight and some friends who got power back yesterday just lost again. A rough 10 days in SW Maine when it’s all said and done.

Lot of folks in my area still without power, we got ours back yesterday but have family who don't expect to get it back until Wednesday. Some of those same folks might lose it again two days later. At this point CMP might as well just keep the out of state contractors on site through xmas. Those guys stand to make a ton of $$$

Just tossing moisture back into the state. Great radar image

Ya it’s dumping right now