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So the 2nd one includes the entire Knife's Edge? Walked that trail (both ways, father in law with achy knees waited at the summit) in 1973. Can't think of a more heart-in-mouth trail open to the general public in New England. The sides of Chimney Peak (last one before Pamola) were special fun. Met a family on the trailwho had been there a year earlier, also in early August, and they had to walk just below the trail on its south due to the windblown sleet.

Looks like Chimney Pond seen from the Knife Edge trail, then Pamola from near Baxter Peak (the summit.) Maybe I was thinking of Big Squaw Mountain in Greenville. Their webpage was not loading for me so not sure if they are still open. It's open to midstation as a club area, almost certainly natural snow only. Me too! I'd also like to see that Eagle Lake region. Allagash Waterway or northeast Aroostook near the town of Eagle Lake? (Or Acadia - there's a sizable Eagle Lake there, too.) The 10 years I lived in Fort Kent my work area was mainly bounded by Nine Mile Bridge (on the St. John); St.-Pamphile, PQ; Estcourt, PQ; and Allagash village, with an occasional trip to the forest north and south of Eagle (the NE Aroostook version.) Nowadays I occasionally get to our Round Pond (on the Allagash) and Telos (abuts the NW corner of Baxter) tracts. And crossing from Jackman or into St.-Pamphile is the same forest-to-farm experience. The latter is a mill town; 2 spruce-fir mills and a cedar mill process about a half million cords per year, 90%+ from Maine.

Not that I know of. Given Gov. Baxter's "forever wild" dictum, there's no instruments there. It gets some winter use (advance permit needed from Baxter Park staff) and maybe some hikers have taken measurements. Park employees did record a 94" pack at Chimney Pond (about 3,000) 3 years ago for a new state record. AFAIK, Farmington's 84" on 2/28/69 was the old one.

That's about the same snow as sites in the Jersey Highlands 25-50 miles west of NYC, but many of that area's residents work much closer to Gotham, so culturally the vibe is NYC/Jersey.

Lower elevation than the Presidentials but seen from the south, with no serious peaks in the way, I think it's the most impressive peak east of the Rockies

On its northern flank, not the southern.

This, in spades. Exchanging the cool and snowless 1980s for the milder and much snowier 2010's will probably result in the greatest decadal adjustment of 30-year norms since such records have been kept, at least for the Northeast. Edit: NYC averaged 20.7"/yr for the 1980s and 36.6" for the 2010s, an increase of 77%. Those 2 decades are lowest and highest in the Central Park records.

And you love it!!

With latitude, BN temps aren't needed. 2/5/2001 25 8 (+1.4) 0.58" 7.0" 2/6/2001 30 23 (+11.5) 0.81" 10.0" 2/10/2005 32 21 (+10.7) 1.34" 15.0" (w/thunder) 2/11/2005 23 16 (+3.6) 0.36 6.0" or next month: 3/8/2018 30 23 (+2.4) 1.90" 19.6" May not (likely won't) get anything like the above, but milder than average isn't doom, at least not until after the equinox.

Doesn't OTS get followed by a cutter? And so on...

It was lots better where I live now than where we were then in Gardiner - Farmington co-op recorded 83" Jan-April while Gardiner co-op only 43 though we did a little better 3 miles south and 130' higher.

Farmington's 5 warmest March days in 127 years of record: 83 22/2012 82 21/2012 80 20/2012 79 20/1903 78 18/2012 That heat wrecked some logging roads and stranded thousands of cords on frozen-ground-only yards. Contractors rushed to haul the quality hardwoods as $100 sawlogs would be $5 pulp sticks by the following December. Give me a pattern like that in early May instead, to avoid the oft-suffered 43° misery mist.

2005-06 was a good example here - 45.0" thru Jan 31 then 7.8" after. Less applicable farther south where the mid Feb dump hit. The 12 months Feb 06-Jan 07 brought 26.9", only 30% of average. (Then Mar 07 thru Feb 08 had 178", not quite twice the average.)

Looks like these totals will be final numbers for SNE. Closing the books DIT's post on the New England Snow thread this morning, predicting no measurable snow anywhere in SNE for Feb-Mar-Apr. (Of course, "hype" is short for "hyperbole.")

11-12? Many folks got their biggest snow from the Octobomb, and though it was kind of a bust here (12-16 verified as 4.5" of 5:1 mush) our biggest was on Nov. 23.

I've never noted trace amounts of snow on the snow table, unlike cocorahs where every trace is recorded, but some very light but measurable snow has <.005" LE.

That's because it's not really snow, but very tiny IP (unless the process has changed drastically) and like natural IP the ratio is more like 3:1 than the 10:1 default for flakes.

Low dews and cooling temps - they'll probably groom the man-made and conditions will be decent. That stuff is almost bulletproof - can remember night skiing at Vernon Valley (NNJ) in late March when daytime temps had been in the 50s. Not the greatest but being a beginner it didn't matter that much to me.

Slow until it turned on the jets and went up the left exit. Models showing 24-36 hr of continuous SN became 6 hr of +RA almost overnight.

2" in the foothills. That season had no snows greater than 3.4" thru Feb 9, then 21" with some thunder on 10-11 plus 5 more storms for another 39" thru March 12.

The town is mostly under 400' elevation, but once you get up near Rip dam at 1,000+ I think the snow will be a lot better. Same thing goes if you ride in KWW east of Baxter. At least it looks like winter out here this am with some Lt snow falling, -SN, 32°F Mood flakes all morning in Augusta, enough to whiten the brown grass exposed by the recent warmth. The 1/10" of gritty snow at home makes 11 events with measurable snow this month, though the 9 smallest total a mere 4.3" and the month's total will finish about 4" below average. January will be about 6° AN and either 3rd or 4th mildest - it's neck-and-neck with 2017 but way short of '02 and '06.

At my then residence in Gardiner, we had 5 warning criteria storms in Jan-Feb that totaled 45.5". No blockbusters (biggest was 11") and none of Dec's brutal cold, but AN snow for those months as latitude was our friend.

My Ranger isn't great, but with nearly 200 lb of firewood in the back it's always made it over Mile Hill - average 6% grade over that mile with a couple hundred yards of 10% about 3/4 the way up, and a sharp corner at the bottom so trying to get a run for it risks a ditch visit. Lowery day in Augusta, radar showed precip overhead (would be RA with surface at 40 unless heavy) but neither drop nor flake has appeared. In winters past, When i would be riding this area, The snow would be up to the bottom of the sign, Not this year so far, There was more snow up here this weekend then down home, But that's still not normal for the Eustis area........ Fair number of sleds on the club trail thru our woodlot yesterday - fewer than usual for a late Jan Sunday but more than I expected. Must be some sloppy going at unbridged little dips as our pack isn't deep enough to soak up all the RA, at least not where slope concentrates runoff.

Less in Farmington than here - corn stubble sticking up thru the snow. Not holding my breath for the weekend (doubt anyone here is) as last Wednesday I was hearing "foot or more for the foothills" and by the next day forecasts had - accurately - gone into the crapper. Wake me Friday morning (though I'll be peeking from now until then. )

Not like last year when almost every snowstorm (until April) had a fair amount of IP/ZR/RA. November started the same way this year but that's par for Novie. Since then it's been black or white - Dec 1 on I've had 4 RA events drop 3.62" with 0.2" total frozen, and 6 events 1"+ plus a bunch of smaller ones that totaled 2.82" LE and 31.1" SN with essentially nothing but flakes.