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That describes my weekend as well!

Stump shot glade. Love all that steep terrain around gondi line etc. Another fantastic day at loaf. Low clouds never made it up to the valley although you could see them just to the south. Today might have been warmer and calmer than yesterday. Just an unreal weekend up there!

Trees still skiing great at loaf. ​​​​​​​ .

This is what I love about weather in the NE. Any given year mid April could be 90 or it could snow a foot. I’m headed to Loaf for the weekend with skis on roof rack in shorts and flip flops.

What a torch. Wonder if this will be our biggest relative to climo for 2023.

Pattern change

No changes. We torch while the west freezes. The high in SLC is easily 20 below average today while BDL pops double digit warm records. Hopefully this nonsense ends before next winter.

But is it making its own cold air?

LCC has been closed for two days. Had my best day in 30 years on skis yesterday at solitude where we’ve gotten a more modest 34” of snow since Sunday. We got “country club” skiing yesterday for the first hour and half as the canyon road opened up. Blower Utah powder on an empty mountain like you read about. Insane. Today both canyons are closed for avy mitigation and the resorts are closed, but tomorrow when things open back up we should be skiing another 12” of dry powder that fell overnight. Here’s a pic of current status from our cabin in the canyon. That’s the neighbors place from our second story deck. .

I just heard from my buddy who works at solitude that mountain ops think this next cycle will be the biggest of this historic season. They think 70” is possible. I’m not even sure if solitude/Brighton will be able to open in that case but I’m pumped to experience whatever comes next!

Just got to big cottonwood canyon. The snow here is ridiculous, I’ve never experienced anything like it. As much as 3.5” qpf will fall here between tonight and Tuesday. I know it’s not New England weather but I’ll post some photos over the next few days so other folks can weenie out. .

Nice. Not sure what the tetons are forecasted but NWS predicting over 50" of snow for central wasatch monday-wednesday. record cold temps for wyoming and utah as well.

Strollin through the hood .

Heavy snow, about an inch down so far. Wonder if this is the last time we see rates like this this season. A little appetizer for the 2’ plus I hope to experience early next week in the wasatch. Flights are booked and I’m ready to experience the historic snowfall season they’re having in the mountain west.

Not often is it 40 degrees and snowing out

I'm headed to the wasatch on sunday and it's definitely on my radar.

there's going to be some chances in the typical locations over the next few weeks.

Fun looking clown on the 6z GFS lol.

I guess I’ll out myself as a flatlander. I grew up in central CT a good long while ago and learned to ski after school at powder ridge when the night skiing scene was strong there. I still get down that way for friends/family and for the annual ESC enduro mountain bike race at powder ridge. It’s great to see that place thriving again. I’ll never leave NNE but central CT gets an unfair reputation. It was a great place to grow up, had some good winters there during my childhood. Have many friends who are raising kids in that area and it’s still a great place for that. And the food and cultural diversity is on another level. The food in NNE sucks so bad outside of a few isolated spots. I also happened to be back in that part of CT for Nemo while I was helping my dad with a move. Still one of the top 3 craziest weather events of my life. We don’t get snowstorms like that here.

And yes, having a hill that’s really for “locals” is fantastic. So many kids on the hill etc.

Ya this one’s a bit bigger than mt southington or powder ridge but those are great local spots for central CT folks. It’s not really that “little” just in comparison to our neighbor at Sunday river. It’s bigger than cranmore.

Yes it’s been changed back to its original name. Great little hill, especially when it’s 10 min from the front door. This is a great area year round.

2”. Puts me at about 83” for the season. That’s basically climo for me. Maybe a few more chances in April to get above for the season. This was a weird season but a good one, and the skiing has been the best in years. Even the local hill here is still buried and I’m looking forward to another month + of skiing around NNE. ​​​​​​​ .

Ya this thing was a shredded mess, next

Back to weather, looks like a wintry week ahead and I’m here for it. The mountains are loaded with snow still.