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Winter feel today with new employee orientation at wildcat giving the impression of opening day

Agreed. This multi day window will be the confidence factor for Thanksgiving openings. Bring it!

Looks like the man-made snow making efforts can resume tonight and last for many days, perhaps taking a break during peak solar times of the day, but the multi-day stretch has the opportunity for most places to put down a coat that provides greater confidence of projected opening dates.

That is pretty cool that opening day is Friday! My recollection is that this will be about 800 vertical feet in the 2800 to 3800 ASL range? I think Sunday River also have the options for this type of upper level short-run experience. Looking forward to the season getting underway, but honestly my opening day won't be until 11/23 but that will be here soon enough!

Good to see the snowmaking underway. With low temperatures in the teens for a couple of nights, one could imagine that productivity will be high. Now thinking good thoughts to be able to ski on this initial base thru April!

As of 945am, there are a a few snow flakes in the air in North Berlin!

Hurricane Otis - On Wednesday the U.S Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works is hosting a hearing on the "The Science of Extreme Event Attribution: How Climate Change Is Fueling Severe Weather Events" and it will be interesting if the spin-up of Otis comes up in conversation. Dr. Wehner may provide some insight on his thoughts. What I like about these hearings is they usually ask the panel "what is the most important thing we do next to address this topic?" https://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2023/11/the-science-of-extreme-event-attribution-how-climate-change-is-fueling-severe-weather-events

looks like the helicopter is moving on as well.

Definitely unsettling to know this individual is on the loose. Very possible that a robust strategy of next steps was orchestrated, but it is unfathomable to comprehend a long-term outlook.

What are the chances that northern mountains turn on the guns next week? Just looking at Wildcat from Monday night onwards, a possible window to start, or way too soon?

On the topic of "changes", this depiction of Grafton Maine has a telling sentence " Frosts came unfailingly in late June and mid-August, and were not unknown in July. The average summer temperature in the warmest month (July) was sixty-six degrees." https://www.bethelhistorical.org/legacy-site/Grafton,_Maine__A_Historical_Sketch.html

Last season there was a couple of small snow events in the middle of November, some cold air, and then around the 22nd it was a good cold snap for a few days. The crew managed to open a top to bottom run (3 trails) and then 3 smaller trails on the west side of the mountain. Essentially it was a 2,000 vertical feet experience with a few options at the bottom. Good enough for me. bring it on!

Robust wave train pulsing past 41044 that is about 1,300 miles SE of the SNE. https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/show_plot.php?station=41044&meas=spec&uom=E Meanwhile, barely any motion at 40149, that buoy will be rocking tomorrow! https://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/show_plot.php?station=41049&meas=spec&uom=E Forerunners unloading near 20 second period on Sunday for SNE, here we go!

57 and feels great outside! Hoping for 2 days of dry weather coming up, as I'm painting tomorrow morning after the fog clears.

Good rain in Newport so far

definitely a smoke-filled experience in Coos County today, and especially around 6pm. Good to see the lift running at wildcat, the count down begins!

Definitely a major system out there with T-numbers way up there for days!

Looks like our season already started! https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/text/PNSNHC/2023/PNSNHC.202305111500.txt

42 and raw outside in northern New Hampshire. Nothing like a spring walk in the cold rain, ha!

Ventured to Sugarloaf for Earth Day and was quite impressive by the amount of snow and quality of snow on the open terrain. The main quad was servicing a handful of excellent runs and to the left of it was a lift that went a bit higher and serviced some good stuff too. Crowds were minor but the quad had people on almost every chair, once I had a wait a minute! In the spirit of all things New England from north Berlin, I took the northern route around Umbagog through the plantations to Rangeley, Stratton, this was beautiful scenery, didn't see another car for 20 minutes. On the way back I went south through Kingfield and many nice little towns, equally majestic. The western mountains of Maine are solid and I saw a few people kayaking on the river!

Mostly at the bottom of each trail, at the bottom of catapult it was like water skiing! Friday had more flow on the upper mountain, but today it was melting throughout. Sunday is the final day for Wildcat, and that'll be 40 days for my season, well worth $525. Itching to get into the next season events on my bike and into the ocean, but very grateful for how this winter turned out.

Wildcat Spring Soup was fun yesterday but I definitely need to proper wax for my skis. Just about very person I talked to on Friday (season pass holders, folks who skied 50, 88, 101, 115 times this year) all had spring wax. Sounds like I need to make an micro investment in wax equipment!

That sounds scary for sure. I'm in the midst of bear country and my neighbor gives me good advice and also things I didn't know. When bears get out of hibernation, they are nocturnal for several weeks so expect to see the from dusk to dawn, but then they become mostly diurnal all the way into the fall. Hope your heart rate recovers, breathe...

I'll be there! I'm wearing ski pants for the morning session, who knows for the afternoon, perhaps a sweatshirt with jeans if I can make it that far.

It was 94 around 5pm when I crossed the MA/NH line on Route 3 and a couple hours later it was 53 when cruising thru Franconia Notch. A pleasant 67 up here in Berlin and the local creek is gushing water, with clear skies and no wind, I can see the temperatures crashing to the upper 30's.