GCWarrior

I keep skiing so I’ll keep posting in here! As mentioned in the NNE thread, Jay Peak was awesome Sunday. Patrol dropped some ropes and the lucky few who were there feasted. Green Beret and Valhalla off the tram we’re fantastic. Plenty of fun turns we’re had off of the jet as well. Very happy to have made the trip up there.

Jay was interesting in a fun way today. Snow up high and rain down low. Given how nasty it was the other day I’d call the skiing pretty good. Coverage was still pretty nice. The woods skied really well, especially where other skiers had broken down a bit of the grabby crust. Looking forward to some fresh snow tomorrow morning. Not many pictures due to the weather.

Stratton was super fun today. Fresh couple inches at the top early made for some midwinter like conditions for a couple hours. By afternoon things were full out spring mashed potatoes. Frank’s Fall line was the run of the day, the snow they blew last week has really made a difference. Stratton has been a lot of fun this year for me. They surprisingly have a decent amount of fun lower angle trees. I only got a chance to get into them once or twice all season. But I will say I enjoyed many nice days just cruising around.

They are very committed to making Memorial Day! I like seeing it! Two more Ikon days left there for me.

Beast did a great job opening for one final weekend. Saturday was the better day but both offered some decent skiing. Lots of fun hanging in the lot, grilling and drinking IPAs.

Just bring some up north!

Always fun and exciting times out here in the hill towns! Daughters school district called a snow day! So I had to take a day off of work.

Catamount closed for season. Berkshire East is ok. Many dirt spots and rocks. Still a solid base that they may be able to move around. Comp, cloud, Umass, grizzly are still decent. And more importantly the base of the mountain seems fine for now. They are going to try hard to open next weekend.

What a crazy 72 hours of skiing in NH this past weekend. Friday, rock hard midwinter groomers. Saturday pouring rain flipped to dumping snow, skiing trees by the end of the day. Sunday incredible windblown powder day with fresh tracks everywhere. Gotta love New England! Skinned and skied in a tshirt the last few days here in western mass.

Yeah it looks like the euro caved to the GFS for the weekend. Hoping for elevation snow at Jay Peak, IFSA eastern finals this weekend.

Both the GFS and the Euro are gross for next weekend. Hopefully it can shift east. I should have just stayed in Utah!

Yes that was nuts! I didn’t see it as we were over at Gad 2 but a liftie told us about it.

Yes! Snowbird yesterday. Hitting big cottonwood canyon today.

Going to put this here….. Glorious day today!

Berkshire East did a really good job resurfacing. They blew some whales before the warmth and rain and groomed it all out pretty good for Saturday. Fresh couple inches of snow was super fun. There was definitely plenty of ice but over all it was decent. Yesterday and this morning was even better. All the manmade terrain is open so there are plenty of options. Gotta make the most of what you have. I hope they can survive the rain and warmth.

I’ll be in Utah so i don’t care too much. Buy I’d like to see SVT resorts get a little revenge after the 2/4 debacle.

Yeah I saw this yesterday! Serious business. The R and D scales go up to 5 as I remember so it was a pretty decent slide for the region. Very lucky for both skiers that one guy was only partially buried and they knew what they were doing. ADK slides are no joke!

Love Burke! Place is a blast when it has snow!

The huge mid February storm was something special. Most snow I remember in the woods in a very long time. Only sad part of that winter was the 4 days of 70's a week after that big storm. Still ripped deep woods lines at Stowe, Smuggs and Jay the first week of March, didn't really seem like it melted all that much. March raged back strong with that massive mid month storm. "Stella!"

2016 had a cutter every couple weeks. Including a couple in February.

Hasn't been two bad March's in a row out here in a while. So lets hope for a nice rebound and a couple weeks of fun.

Yeah people are going to say we clean up out here. But in all honesty the foothill areas do not get that much snow and especially the valleys. Berkshire East is down in a valley with a base elevation of 400 feet. The mountain says it averages 75-80" a season which is pretty decent for SNE but I'd argue they don't get that much due to their very low base elevation. I'd say there are definitely some years where we get good snow but it's fairly inconsistent. I don't think there have been more than 5 20" storms in Charlemont, MA in the last 12 years. Now head 10 miles West and you are getting into a special place. Though lately even up there that are not seeing the big totals. SVT down into the northern Berkshires haven't had a ton to be excited about over the last several winters.

I’d like to have up north rocking and rolling again when I get back from warming my legs up in Utah! Down here would be a mere bonus.

no idea it actually snowed here once in 2016! I have tired to burn that winter out of my mind forever.... not nearly enough tequila to get me through that one.

Would like to see the models starting move next weeks rain a little more south. GFS doesn't want to budge yet, EURO moved a bit south. Plenty of time to go thankfully. I could care less about down here at this point but this has a lot of implications for ski and sled country!