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Clearly no lifts were going to run at Jay today.  Wind was howling all day. Lucky for me I packed my skins! There were not many people hiking up which made for lots of fresh tracks. I ripped Canyonland, Valhalla and finally Timbuktu to the car.  Snow was fantastic, dense surfy pow, bottomless feeling.  Last run down Timbuktu may have been the run of the season. (Yes, 99 days both here in the east and out west!) Untouched down the boundary line, hooting and hollering as I went.  Sadly I can’t ski tomorrow and today is my last natural snow day of the season but damn was it a good day to end it! 

Sugarbush was interesting today.  Snow was actually a lot better down low. Jay tomorrow. 

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.

15 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

My brother is at Killington today and he said they are blowing snow on Superstar. 
Lol

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. 

1 hour ago, jbenedet said:

EPS/GFS is BS for second half of next week. Yea sure that Wednesday shortwave could cut into Manitoba but it’s not eroding the confluence over the northeast US. What most likely happens is it does cut, but then cuts off quickly and fills and we still have a trough overhead with the BZ over the northern mid Atlantic, primed for a secondary. Snow threat is legit through the 1st. 

 

 

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. 

25 minutes ago, dendrite said:

A lot of spots should flirt with 70F on Friday. Saturday is looking wet for a lot of NNE too. Maybe Phin can hold some early snow, but it's looking meek.

Maybe another chance mid week next week for some kind of overrunning deal?

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! 

On 2/23/2022 at 8:46 AM, radarman said:

Seen any blackhawks down?

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

6 hours ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

Where is that?  Wasatch Mountains? 

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.  

9 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Holy sh*t.  A full burial and one partial burial in an avalanche in the Adirondacks back on Saturday.  That's a big slide.

Saturday February 12, 2022 a large (R4, D3) skier triggered avalanche occurred on the furthest lookers right slide path in the well known northeast facing Angel Slides area on the shoulder of Wright Peak. The slide appears to have been remotely triggered by two skiers ascending the slide path. The crown of the avalanche at ~3,750 feet in elevation is estimated to have been 80 cm (~2.5 ft) deep at the deepest point, and reached approximately 150 feet across the entirety of the slope. From the start zone it is estimated the avalanche traveled more than 1000 feet to the toe of the avalanche.

By their own estimation the slide released approximately 500 feet above the two skiers. Both skiers were caught and carried around 150 feet. Skier one may have experienced a brief loss of consciousness, after coming to with a partially obstructed airway due to snow impacted in their mouth they were able to extract themselves from their partial burial after five minutes. Skier one located skier two with the lowest beacon reading being greater than one meter. Skier one dug out skier two who was fully buried and inverted, and had his airway cleared in approximately 10 to 15 minutes after the beginning of the incident. Skier two was not responsive and breathing faintly. As skier one continued to extract his partner, skier two regained consciousness. Both skiers recovered to the point that they were able to extract themselves from the woods despite the loss of some of their gear.

On the same slope we observed a snowpack of 70 cm in depth. Our results in the snow pit were as follows; CT 15 Q1 @ 60cm (measuring from the top), ECTP 14 @ 60 cm.

Read the full, unedited report on the observations page of our website via the link in our bio.

Thanks to those involved for sharing the details of this incident with us. It is our hope that sharing this information will increase our community’s awareness of avalanche hazards and highlight the need for more education and information to help mitigate the risk of traveling in avalanche terrain in the Adirondacks.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CaBSEC6OsJR/

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!  

2 hours ago, bwt3650 said:

Took a ride to where the Olympians train today; Burke.  First time there..cool mountain.  It seemed like it was made for speed.  The woods looked cool too, but after dipping in once, it was pretty bad conditions.  Anything natural was also garbage, but the groomers were fast and fun and in great shape.

 

Hit jay in the afternoon and the 2” up top really made a difference.  Upper tramside glades were legit packed powder.  What a difference from Burke.  Really dreading this upcoming thaw/freeze.  It’s gonna destroy the Vt mountains that relay on natural.  Hoping for a more productive March and maybe a little help fixing it from the weekend clipper.  Def want to hit Burke again with good snow.

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

2 hours ago, powderfreak said:

That winter was great… 16-17 is underrated in NNE.

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!"

11 hours ago, Lava Rock said:

We never got the grinch storm or NYE cutter like we usually do, but to get it in Feb totally blows and is unexpected. when was the last time we got a Feb cutter?

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

4 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

I’m hoping for two good snow events between now and April and then warm and dry.  

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. 

44 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

This general area has had a tougher time getting the goods relative to the rest of SNE/ W CNE  I'm speaking locally, I know there are other screw zones N & W.

 

 

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. 

Just now, Ginx snewx said:

Absolutely love this look hope it holds

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.