GCWarrior

If work wasn't a factor, Maine teachers don't get paid well. Rangeley, ME is a great spot. Big lakes for summer, great skiing in the winter. Great snowpack retention.

I've been lurking in here a long time and now a post a little bit. I'd like to point out how many times everyone on this forum has melted much of mid December to January. How many times have things turned themselves around vs not? Long range models are great, ensembles are great, but it seems people get way into looking into the future rather than just letting things happen. If winter doesn't pan out so be it, blame climate change, rake your lawn and move on to summer activities. But anything can happen if we just be patient. I remember skiing in a t-shirt at Sunday River around this day in 2007, full manmade snow. 6 weeks late I was throwing back flips off a deck into snow up in Huntington, VT.

Happy for the Browns, not many sports franchises worse than them. Sadly for them they have to play Mahomes and the Chiefs next week. Enjoy the week Cleveland!

After today it would see that there is a nice long window for snowmaking. Guns should be firing up tonight here at Berkshire east.

Wildcat probably gets sold off. It doesn't really fit Vail's profile. There is no lodging or on site dining besides the bar. Mount Snow, Okemo, Attitash, Stowe, Sunapee are very resorty, Wildcat is not really.

New ski boots are here on Tuesday. Coming from EVO, maybe they bring some of that NW snow with them! Mount Baker 140" base!

Berkshire east was fun today. Haven't been skiing in a few days due to trying to buy a car. It was nice to make some turns with both my kids. Drank a couple beers in the lot and hit up the outdoor food service window. Everything is going pretty smoothly over there. Their terrain is really very limited though. Only three routes off the top basically. Hopefully they will have upper competition open after this event is over tomorrow and things freeze up again.

What a glorious winter that was! Freshmen year at UNH, massive piles of snow everywhere in Durham.

Or 2015. December 2015 sucked in general. Might have been both.

I remember 2014 my kids were playing in the brook by the house and it was 75 christmas eve.

Cardigan is a great time!

Santa must really hate snow! Who doesn't love a torch cutter on Christmas? This will not be good for the Christmas week. I think it's time for mounting more skis and breaking in my new ski boots. Maybe it's time to get out and cut some more glades!

Beast did only have 7 trails open. Everything else was “skiable.” Best was the lower angle stuff. Fat skis helped a lot too. I did not ski lift line. Jug was a blast. Honestly, Berkshire east is never fully game on, maybe once every few years for like three days. There is always rocks and stumps to hit in the woods.

If it didn't blow off I'd guess upwards of 36" at the top of Greylock. Thunderbolt should pretty pretty skiable.

No snow days for my district this year. Covid can go &*$%^$ itself. I have the day off tomorrow. Will there be any thing left for me at berkshire east? Woods? I'm also on 110 waisted skis.

Several of my students reported 24" plus in Lanesborough, MA. What a burial! I bet the top of Mount Greylock got 36" easy money.

I work about 10 mins from Brodie, it looks very skiable right now but I’m not sure of access. I’ve heard it is on private property and they may not allow access.

One of these Christmases we will have a repeat of 2002. What a glorious Christmas night that was out here!

You too Mike! We gotta get out this winter!

I've been teaching ski lessons there since I moved back to western mass in 2010. Nice gig for me and them. I'm an elementary school gym teacher as my full time job so I'm pretty good at wrangling children. I show up on time and don't complain and I'm willing to teach school groups. I live 15 minutes away so it really works out!

The 20th is starting to get me interested for out here. Euro OP looks nice for Thursday out here but it's 6 days out and very different than the GFS. Ensembles, I'm still learning how to read them but I'll assume we ride them until we get inside 4-5 days?

Im a part time employee, I live only a few minutes away. They have been hammering away. We have some training this weekend. They have no day tickets on sale until next Saturday so I'd assume that is opening day. Seems good for snowmaking after this weekends warm up. I think they would like to open with a decent amount of terrain even if it's on all manmade snow. The storm next week won't help unless it takes a track like the 12z Euro.

Finally the deep cold starts to come in. Looks like round the clock snowmaking at the local hill.

I'd like to see this stay right where the Euro has it. Not likely but one can only dream!

Raining here. No surprise.