GCWarrior

I feel like Sierra resorts either get a ton of snow or far below average snow over the last few years. Squaw Valley has numbers back to 2013 and it’s such a roller coaster. I’ve skied our there a couple times and I was not complaining either way!

We’re they running the summit double? I love that little mountain. Had a pretty epic powder day their MLK day 2009. Boot to knee deep on top of no base. Summit is surprisingly steep.

Not sure why pics are sideways. I’ll fix later.

Judged the IFSA comp at mighty Whaleback today. Kids slayed it on Blowhole. I managed a few runs at the end of the day. Coverage was a little scary but there were some fun turns to be had. Sip of Sunshine on tap too!

A few inches Thursday and Ice Friday. Largest school district in the state. 9 towns, Heath, Colrain, Hawley, Ashfield, and Plainfield included. Lots of elevation change.

No, Thursday and Friday last week! Monday and Thursday this week!

Don’t understand why school was cancelled here again. 4 snow days for Mohawk District in a week! Might as well just cancel for cold tomorrow! Start vacation early. 3” last night, a bit more than 8” for the week here! Driving through Savoy it looks like deep winter up there.

Yes. Savoy looked like a lot more than 6”. Reports confirm it. I hope most of rain stays south of here.

Two hour delay at my school. My kids are on their 3rd snow day in a row. 6” down in Buckland with maybe a bit more in Savoy. My son is at Berkshire East now. I’m pretty jealous!

Just flipped to snow here! Big flakes. Light breeze.

Here in the falls at 600’ I’m feeling pretty good. Areas around here, upper Buckland, Ashfield over toward Savoy could see pretty significant ice. Many places above 1000’ in this area lost power for a week in 2008.

Looks great! I need to go north and ski.

I think when they mean they will open for 2020 is they will get the lower learning lift open for people to just cruise around. Not sure they will get much more up and running this year. Having skied every medium to large ski resort in New England and many out west I can say Saddleback is the closest to western skiing I’ve experienced in the east. Incredible snow park retention, makes it seem like they get a lot more snow than many New England mountains. They get around 220” of snow a year compared to Sugarloafs 200”. Couple this with less skier traffic and a high base elevation you have natural snow well into may pretty much every season up there.

Nice Super Bowl tailgate at Berkshire East yesterday. Skiing was pretty awesome for manmade. I definitely like that they leave some features in the groomed surface.

I love Saddleback! Hit it the day after the Snowicane late February 2010. Pretty epic knee deep turns!

Maybe it can become another 3-6” SWFE!!!

As is often the case the BLT was busier than the ski area. Magic is the only bar I know with a ski area! This guy enjoyed the BLT a little too much!

Skied Magic on Friday. Place was dead And they had pretty limited terrain. Groomers were in very nice shape though. Had a great BLT at the Black Line Tavern. We drove to Pico only to find crazy lift lines and windholds. They mentioned if they were still on hold by 11 we could ski Killington but judging by the crowds we decided to not bother skiing at all. Pretty disappointed but the hot tub felt pretty good regardless. Ski resorts badly need some snow!

Great night at Berkshire East last night. Ripping snow the whole time. Every run down we got fresh tracks!

Agreed! I have lived and skied all over the country and my home hill still makes me smile. The Beast has done a splendid job snowmaking this season and offers enough terrain to keep me busy for a couple hours despite no natural snow right now. Living 15 mins away helps me like it a lot too. I just hope we can get some natural snow this winter. Place has some killer woods skiing if you know where to look.

Finally making the trek out of southern New England next weekend. Magic and Pico on tap. Hoping the 25th ish timeframe brings me some good luck!

I know everyone is focused on the weekend system. Anyone have any thoughts on the following week. Looks pretty quiet until later in the week.

We generally do well with SWFE so hopefully this weekends storm pans out.

Berkshire East got destroyedover night. The coverage was not bad yesterday, today it was downright sad. They are closed tomorrow. Hopefully they can fire up the guns soon.