GCWarrior

I don’t think this thing is dynamic enough to cancel school. It is April. Wednesday maybe if it’s mostly sleet and ice. Thursday is probably a delay for a lot of schools. Roads clean up quick this time of year!

Watching this closely. Waiting for that white unicorn for 6 years now. The one day I have a snow day and my kids don’t. My district tucked up in the nw corner of mass has had zero snow days this school year. My kids have had a few but they are down in the valley.

Looks pretty nice for at least a few days after the next rain storm. I hope the mountains can have some spring skiing in actual spring.

It’s gonna pour next week. I’m just hoping for more snow in the mountains.

GFS continues to be reasonable. NAM is doing NAM things. Seems like the rain is more east though which is good, well for us western New England folks.

I made a quick trip today to Mount Snow. Legs were still a bit cooked from the weekend but I managed just fine. Skiing was pretty good. Weather was not so good. Cloudy, spitting rain and breezy. Groomers were very nice, natural was good where it had been skied but very manky in some of the off map stuff. Couldn’t stay too long because I had to go to work, but I felt satisfied none the less.

My friends in Portland who hate winter won’t like that. Honestly though who lives in Maine and hates winter?

I often ask myself why I don’t live in Rangeley. There really is no where else like it in New England. Skiing was totally incredible, two days of bliss! Saturday was classic storm skiing, constant refreshers all day long. Untouched in Casablanca way into the day. Sunday was over 20”(way more up high) of blower powder. Some places were pretty wind blown but often as you got lower and in the woods it got better and better. Mule skinner was insane, knee deep turns on the fat waisted skis. I could have walked away from my season after that run and said “I’m done!” It did get pretty busy Sunday but you would never know it, the Rangeley was ski on and the Kennebago had a 5 min wait after we had skied many runs.

Dumping steadily down in Rangeley. Skiing was pretty damn good.

According to NWS the winds are over 40 mph up high right now and saddleback is running both the kennabago and Rangeley. So that is promising.

I’ll send some updates from Saddleback tomorrow and Sunday. Wind seems ok tomorrow. Sunday looks worse but they are pretty good at getting the t bar to kennebago going.

Nice little weekend up at Stowe and Jay. Awesome turns up high Friday and Saturday at Stowe. Friday was pretty quiet with fresh tracks to be had bell to bell. Jr freeride comp on Sunday started out a bit wet but transitioned to heavy snow after lunch. They held the comp on UN which was a first but it worked out alright. Skiing after the comp was pretty amazing and nobody was there. A ton of snow out in the woods. Saddleback adventure this weekend! About as close to being out west as it gets in New England.

One year ago today! I’d go take one of the same place today but I think you get the difference!

Trying to dump on DC. That can’t happen.

The woods are going to be loaded!

Berkshire east was fine today. Main trails have decent coverage but the snow quality was pretty poor. Not sure they make it past the several warm days this incoming week on top of this current deluge…. Time will tell.

Heavy white rain here. 34 degrees. Mount snow tomorrow am should be interesting.

This is my third straight season actively going for 100 ski days. It’s been a rough one down here this winter. Price I pay for living where I grew up I guess. Two kids, full time job, other obligations have kept me from getting north as much as I’d like too. This has been the most challenging season so far. Local hill has been closed so I have had to get creative this week. Mount snow in the pouring rain before work Thursday and a super nice after work session at Bousquet last night. 75 and counting…..

Lol. Seems like the GFS is now the outlier. See what the euro does. I know people probably don’t care at this point.

The euro wasn’t this showing that much snow that far south at 0z? That would be nice. New puppy, kid’s activities, mount snow is the best option for me Sunday.

Yup! It’s bad.

Need more behind it. It’s peak snow climo in the mountains. Maybe the 3/15 to 3/22 period can provide it. Powderfreak talked about it in the NNE thread but it’s really amazing how the northern spine has done so well despite these huge positive temperatures anomalies. The rest of the NNE mountains not so much. Need a couple big qpf events to reload. Side note, these next couple rain events may do in most smaller resorts. Berkshire East was horrible yesterday and I’m not sure they can recover. Gonna rain real hard Sunday. Maybe they can push around some piles but it will take a lot.

Back to northern Maine only now on the NAM. It was a fun dream!

I love AC install talk! Not that it’s ever right and I shouldn’t get sucked in but the NAM today has been getting interesting for elevated parts of central/northern New England Thursday.

Whaleback shutting down their chairlift after today. Will only be using their learning center next weekend. Sadly this may be the fate of many small hills the next week.