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No flakes yet on the UES.

Feeling cautiously optimistic here in the E 80’s.. Wouldn’t surprise me if I get a bit of taint mid-storm but I think 8-12” is the responsible call here.

I do not have great memories from Boxing Day. As I recall, we were forecasted at 16-24" and ended up with about 9.

Just switched my Epic reservation from Wildcat to Okemo for Saturday. Obviously storm will be skied out by then but looks like they are in line for maybe 5-8"... Wildcat's early season snowmaking has been pathetic compared to more southern resorts... Heck, even resorts like Cannon which isn't exactly the snowmaking capital of the northeast has managed far better.

Hunter looks like it could be a good place to ski later this week...

One thing that I think Mt. Snow does do very well at considering its southern location is retention, especially on the North Face. Lots of those trails hold snow forever-They're also generally pretty narrow so don't get as windblown as some of the stuff at Killington.

LOL, yes-The famous hinterlands of Worcester, Lowell, Nashua, and Manchester! Nowhere to stop!

Biggest expense for me with skiing this year is gas/depreciation on car... The closest places worth skiing from where I live are ~125-135 miles driving one way. In my Jeep Grand Cherokee, that's $25-30 in gas per visit which exceeds my cost/day on the Epic Pass assuming I ski 25-30 days.

I have Spectrum for cable and internet. I’m one of the few millennials who hasn’t cut the cord but when you price out internet + YouTubeTV (need live sports) + Netflix (though to be fair, i bootleg off someone’s account)+whatever else, it’s MAYBE $10-15 dollars more per month. Worth it for the convenience factor for me.

North face is empty, main face pretty busy. Fellow skier going nuts in line on Bluebird lift threatening to check the IDs of fellow skiers to make sure they’re from VT. Uh, under what authority sir.. To be clear, not a Vail employee and 99.8% of people are totally cool here. But there’s always one!

3 runs in.. Conditions pretty typical early season at Mt Snow but not horrible.

Mt Snow looks to have some decent terrain for opening day tomorrow... Free Fall on the North Face, Canyon on the skier's left of the main face, and Long John on skier's right. Three true routes down.. I've skied worse on first days!

Just made a reservation for opening day at Mt Snow. As Texans said at the Battle of Gonzalez and I say to Phil Scott, "Come and Take it!"

If the most vulnerable are vaccinated by February, shouldn’t we see the hospitalization and death rate go down by quite a bit, making the need for draconian measures less?

Flakes here on the UES.

Not a New England observation but was just outside and had my first flurries here of the season here in Manhattan! Nice!

Density argument debunked.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CHq9JGpjuoI/?igshid=eebru6b3kuzt Covid closes Taos.

Yeah, I totally agree with building wealth early. The 18% of my paycheck that I save every two weeks will amount to far more than if I started saving 25% 10 years from now... But also lucky that I don’t have student loans, have a relatively high salary, etc... It’s not a one-size fits all approach.

I went to college in Texas (and lived there for 18 months post grad) but grew up in the Boston area and now live in New York. I’m now almost 25... It’s amazing to see the “maturity” level between my friends from TX and my friends from growing up... Many of my TX friends are married and/or engaged... and even a few are having kids. Meanwhile, many of my friends from growing up are still “finding themselves” career wise and living at home. Maybe coincidental, maybe cultural... I don’t know. I’m somewhere in between-I’m single but have had a lot of career advancement relatively speaking for only being 3 years out of school.

Just reserved six days on my Epic Pass: 12/19 Wildcat, 12/20 Attitash and 1/22-25 in Crested Butte. Annoying that you can't make reservations for pre-12/8 until the week of but who knows what the ski area opening schedule will look like with the warm weather.

Yeah, I mean you’d know better than me, but the idea of Vail pulling my pass for skiing at Stowe without quarantining when I can ski Hunter, Wildcat, Attitash, etc with no threat of adverse action... Will make me ski NY + NH more than VT.

You are not allowed in the state unless you want to lie and/or quarantine for 14 days.

Snow into the Bronx? Do I take a weenie subway ride to Woodlawn in the AM?

72° here in my part of NYC. Perhaps closer to the water it’s cooler.