powderfreak

Miserable day up here. 29F at the top of the Quad with solid freezing rain. 33F mid-mountain and rain. 36F in the base area and rain.

54F up here at MVL for max but with mostly sunny skies it felt pretty nice. Sunshine this time of year makes a huge difference.

2012 to me was incredibly early. We then had a major snow at the end of April 2010 with green leaves out… I had 12” at 300ft where I lived in Richmond, VT next to the Winooski River. 1,000ft+ had 18-24”, 3,000ft had 30”. The early leaf out then snow and cold messed up the vegetation. I don’t know if I remember 2010 being noteworthy early. I’ll have to look back into photos.

Still finding areas of WTF from the flash flood the other night. Looking at acres of woods right now just scoured by river water and mud, a long way from the river bed. I guess this is how water ends up in Alex’s backyard. Wish this happened during daylight, would’ve been wild to see.

Beautiful day. Time to shut them down though, zero people still skiing, ha.

Looks like we did eventually hit 50F in the valley this afternoon. So jealous of the 70s.

I still cannot believe we lucked out last Monday for the eclipse. Feels like we’ve seen the sun for just a few hours since then. Low clouds, cool, drizzle and showers. Ceiling is like 1500-2000ft.

Agreed. Don’t care if the grass is torched brown all summer. Or if gardens need daily watering. Just give us months of dry weather. Anyone who complains about dryness this warm season is a psychopath . Make it stop.

Funny when it happens overnight and no one sees it as it’s very flashy here… happens fast and recedes fast once done. But it’s like why are their logs out in the soccer fields? huh.

Just realizing we had a pretty big flood event the other night here. Walking the dog from home I started noticing logs and trees out in the soccer fields. The river here showing mud deposits like 4-8 feet above where the river is today. We only got like an inch of rain but the river height looked like 4-6” of rain in major summer flows. Shows how much the mountain snowpack can add to it. The Dog Path goes through here but it’s now gone as like 40 feet of land disappeared from this field overnight two nights ago.

It snowed down through about 1300ft last night. 4" up high. 288" on the season and over 5 feet still on the ground. Takes a while to melt off a winter snowpack.

W/NW cyclonic flow on the backside of an upper level H5 trough. 3” so far up at that 3kft elevation. Last accumulation during the operating season? Puts us past 285” on the season on the mid/upper slope at 3kft. Top of lifts and ridgeline got more. 4kft had to easily clear 300” this season.

Wild. Shows the intersect angle so well. Paths crossing in a once in a lifetime experience.

2” at 3,000ft so far. Snow level down to about 1200ft.

lol not of the bear. Just of his shit and trash.

Just had our trash raided by a black bear and he took a big ol’ shit in the driveway. Guess they are awake now. Shoveling trash with a snow shovel is always fun in the rain, ha.

You guys down south certainly stop traveling northward and move on to other things… Even the locals start looking to the warm season. This amount of snow and skiable terrain in November would be a gong-show of crowds. But people want seasons-in-seasons with the sun/solar calendar. Long daylight in April, they are looking at warm season. Short daylight like October and November, they want to rush cold season activities. The other day with sun coming through at times, there were a total of 8 people riding the FourRunner Quad here. The flagship lift. Only 8 people on the line at 12pm. The general public has moved on completely and these rainy days show why ski areas lose money this time of year operating. Midweek operations after like April 1st are brutal.

That was the vibe today for sure, ha. This was the first day that was like, yeah the spring melt is happening and it won’t recover like it has every other time this winter.

Rivers and creeks are raging this evening with 1”+ rain and heavy heavy snowmelt. Rivers look like it rained 3+ inches and SWE melt must’ve been pretty high out of the upper elevation basins.

BTV hit 76F and now under a Severe Warning. Wild day.

Up here the ASOS has hit 57F for a dew so far. It feels like a 70F dew lol. The snow doesn’t like it either.

The sun came out briefly yesterday to reveal a total of 8 people on the Quad at noon. Midweek in April. This is why ski areas close this time of year. Imagine the demand on this look in November? People will swarm one icy route down. This time of year, nope.

The longer the totality, the better. But 4+ min vs 6+ min are both solidly long. The key is totality. Other factors like cost, ease of access, accommodations/flights would play into that decision… both are solid totality sites. Tying an event like that into a bonafide vacation/exploration trip would be wild.

Never over until it’s over. That’s awesome.

It sometimes seems true that late season snow is natures fertilizer. That stuff melting into a warming ground… get a few sunny days and things can green up fast. Unfortunately we’ve got more soggy ground coming for New England.