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Stowe was pretty fantastic today! Found fresh tracks well into the day. Gotta love midweek powder skiing in early December!

Wild stuff at Abasin. Opening tomorrow in the midst of a big time snow storm.

Pretty good window. There is money to be made early season. People jonesing for early turns. Mount Snow, Killington, SR for sure will be looking start blowing.

Nice day here, mix of sun and clouds and a great breeze! Blew out the rear hub on my mountain bike which put a damper on things. Trails are running nice despite all the leaves.

Too bad about Black. I’ve had a few very good days there. The terrain off their double is excellent. Had a killer powder day there back in 2010. 18” on no base! Hard to compete in that market up there, every season seemed like their last. Sad to see.

58 and drizzle here in South Deerfield, MA. Feels cold. Not bad at home. Nice dry mountain bike ride this am.

2018-19 was pretty meh out here. I can’t even remember if we got any of that march storm here. Snow haters should not look at the pictures from northern Vermont. Massive late March storm.

Mount Hood: 8/20 and 8/22. Due to a very busy summer I was not able to ride the lift as it closed 8/13. I was pretty determined to get out and ski while I was in the northwest so threw my skins in my bag. The Palmer snowfield is well groomed and a nice path is groomed down the gully towards the timberline lodge. I was able to catch this path about 300 vert up from the parking lot. This allowed a decent 2200 vert skin all the way to the top of the Palmer lift. Skiing was really nice due to the frequency and consistency of grooming. It was not steep at all but it was a lot of fun. There was only one spot near the silcox but I had to take my skis off due to dirt, otherwise is was a pretty smooth trip up and back to the car. The second day had better weather(no smoke) but 48 hours of sun blew open a couple crossovers and skis had to be taken off.

LFG! When I was in high school the first Skiing magazine issue always showed up in August. It was always an exciting time!

Indoor recess and gym here. Air quality index close to 200. Going to head back east and attempt to go for a bike ride on my way home.

Nicely done! I’ve hiked down from the summit in July and made some decent turns in Tucks. It’s a much easier hike than going up from Pinkham notch. I have skied in Washington state in august. There is a ton of decent skiing there through the summer. Rainier has a few decent permanent snowfields but even easier is up near Mount Baker.

Saddleback! Great lift lay out, less freeze/thaw, beautiful views, remote, great trees, great terrain, great base lodge and most importantly the friendliest people I have met all season. Nice way to round out my season. Nearly 100% open on natural snow mid april. Saddleback welcome to number one New England ski area status!

Great last couple days at Magic and Berkshire East. Both skied really well and softened nicely in the afternoon. Magic Beast

Ended up being a glorious day at Jay Peak. Full bluebird in the afternoon! Midwinter yesterday and full out spring today. Life is good indeed! This winter is starting to creep into top ten for me despite the poor start.

Got in a great day at Dutch Hill Tuesday. Just so happened that I had the day off! Weather was decent, 1” at the bottom and about 3” at the top. Snow bonded perfectly with the snow underneath creating an almost perfect skiing surface. This coupled with a bottomless base made it one of my top days(which says a lot)! Ran into my friend as he was leaving but otherwise there was no one else there. Could not really ask for anything better. Sun even poked out from time to time.

Great last lift service day for us at Beast today! Snow was perfect and the woods were still skiable. Latest I’ve skied trees there in a long time.

general 6-12” at the resorts, where snow should be this time of year!

Thunderbolt ski trail was great Friday! I’m pretty slow on the skin track but I managed to do the 2300 foot ascent in a little less than 2 hours. The skin track was pretty well worn in and a little icy in places but I managed to make it. Views from the top were fairly clear looking out toward the east. Wind was slightly strong but not unmanageable and there was no rain. The descent was as fun as always. Resort intermediate pitch for the most part but with natural conditions. Snow was fast and packed from the top until the trail leaves the AT. The rest skied well, finding untouched in the side woods was much better than the middle of the trail. Over all a great tour, I’m glad I got up there, it’s been a few years.

I sadly had to work today but with snow days the last couple my kids and I managed to make some great turns at the local hill. Snow was very deep everywhere. Made me have zero want or desire to ski anywhere else. Heading up Mount Greylock tomorrow!

We do. Others in town do not. Trees dropped on transformers middle of the night.

Just dumping here.

Hard to tell how much we got here, looks like most of the storms here this year. Very wet and heavy. Power out in half the town. Id bet even 1/2 mile up the hill is pretty deep.

Moderate to Heavy snow here. Im at 400 feet down here in the valley. I’d bet it’s pretty snowy one town over up in Ashfield.

School already cancelled! Let us know on the way out! People not happy. I say embrace and just ski!

Couple great days up in NH. Waterville Friday and Cannon Saturday. Waterville was probably the top weather day of the season, high 30s and full sun. Skied almost everything including the trees which were surprisingly very fun. Groomers and bumps were great too. Cannon was in midwinter form after a couple weeks of good snow. Skied lots of woods and natural trails. Did a run on Kinsman and finished our day on an extremely fun and technical off map run. Everything was a little scraped down and the natural was very icy but that is pretty typical of Cannon regardless.