powderfreak

We laugh but have to respect someone who takes pride in the appearance of their property on such short notice.

Will you be able to sleep with that mess of leaves out there? ”Mom, why’s Dad leaf blowing at 2am!?”

Says it’s 34F outside but already frost on the car at 7pm. Need some snow to preserve but keep wasting money on fake cold.

Yeah as long as you pay it off… if not, it removes the benefits because of your interest accrued ha. But if you pay off everything each month, they give you free money and benefits. Even if it’s just $500-$1000 annually, it’s still money you are getting back just for paying all your expenses with their card.

Cash back, enough to pay our internet bill monthly. Basically pay everything with CC, get enough cash back to go out to dinner one night or cover a small bill.

We do too. Always pay it off but get cash back and points for all.

More interesting.

I actually just looked up Hingham and it makes a little more sense. I don't know why I thought that was near KBED or Framingham and it most definitely is not. Coastal south shore town (as I'm sure all of you are aware, ha)... so now it fits a little more. But still, that's a rough stretch even on the water I'd think. But I think in my head I rush climo a bit along the actual coast/Atlantic ocean early season. Plowable/decent December storms are probably a little more rare there than say BED, right?

Another reason to hate that period. 16 of 19 brown Xmas’ in eastern Mass… yikes. I mean that’s like someone’s entire childhood. Turning 18 years old, finishing high school, and only seeing 3 Christmases with 1” or more dusting the ground in your life to that point… in the E.Mass climate belt that these days seems to squat out big snowstorms. Sounds more in-line with what you’d expect in Maryland or something.

I’d have to check but ALB in 2002 I think we woke up to bare ground on Xmas day… that huge storm started at like 9-10am IIRC. Then we had 18” by the time I was driving my grandmother home that evening and finished with 22” at my childhood house. Snowing 3”/hr during Christmas Dinner was awesome. But despite like 18” at ALB on the 25th, that 12z morning ob might have been grass.

I’m not sure the specific depth requirements but it’s pretty significant I believe…. like an even 30” wall-to-wall top-to-bottom. Possibly even more? It has to be enough depth to sustain winch cat grooming operations, drilling holes to set gates, and most importantly it has to be deep enough to sufficiently anchor layers of safety netting. Those anchors go pretty deep to be able to stop a skier moving at a high rate of speed and not just rip out of the snowpack. That’s where the wall-to-wall coverage is needed… can’t skimp on the side of the trails where safety netting gets drilled in and anchored.

I agree with your sentiments. Even a decent pack of 12” loses its “White Christmas” luster if it’s 44F, raining with 1/4 mile thick fog and blackened snowbanks. Sure it’s a “White Christmas” but despite a foot on the ground, there are soggy water runnels and pea soup views outside… whereas even a fresh 2-4” on grass and on every twig and branch probably achieves a better festive atmosphere with 70% less snowpack.

Isn’t it 1” snow depth at 12z on Xmas morning?

Granted living anywhere near Hilton Head can’t be cheap. I’m pretty sure it was a Kroger supermarket. Every single ski area I know of is incredibly short staffed and wages are higher than ever… not like a dollar raise either but like $5+ per hour over what that same job was 2 winters ago. Jobs that ski areas got away with paying $10/hr for a decade plus a ski pass are now at $15-$20… similar to the supermarket thing we were discussing. Plus signing bonuses, referral bonuses, etc. Its a great time to be a high schooler looking for part time work, lol. I know a financial planner in town who said his high school daughter made over $20K this summer as a waitress in like 3 months. I wouldn’t have known what to do with that money in high school lol.

Employees cost A LOT now in many jobs. It’s incredible the staffing shortages everywhere. Even when I was down in Hilton Head and Savannah, Georgia a few weeks ago the local grocery stores were advertising $20/hr to bag groceries. $25/hr if you wanted to stock shelves at night with up to 60hrs/week possible. Stocking grocery store shelves paying more than public school teachers and law enforcement down there it seemed.

Mild on the peaks. Mansfield is 45F at 4,000ft, fitting with that same elevation on MWN.

59F at MVL… feels wonderful outside. Might need to take a drive this afternoon to BTV to wear shorts one last time, ha.

Good data. The diurnal ranges have been crap the past few months… this whole warm season after May to be honest. This fall though was real bad, usually good for those 40 degree swings several times in the bookend season.

Holy crap, lol. Remote starting the car over here to try and melt the thick/heavy frost encasing it. Still sitting around 32F.

Almost infuriating lol. Paying for heat right now blasting out of the baseboards because it’s sub-freezing at 30F outside…while a normal mixed lapse rate from the summit down to the valley would yield low-60s for temps from 47F at 4,000ft. We could have the windows open right now if it was dry adiabatic; would be like a summer evening. Instead the ponds are growing ice.

33F here and a balmy 46F at 4,000ft. We inverted.

Yesterday morning it was 20F here and 36F at the Picnic Tables. November is the time of big inversions. This was the time of year we had a snowstorm, then a torch above like 1200ft while cold stayed in the valleys. Only time I’ve ever gotten a photo of full snow cover filling the valleys while 1500ft up to 3000ft was fully melted and brown. Then you started to hit snow again at the picnic tables.

Almost like fake warmth today… upper 50s and dry air felt great and then boom, shadow and it’s 39F. 57F at 3:10pm and 39F two hours later at 5:20pm.

Crazy how radiational cooling starts after the 2:54pm observations now. Dropping 7F between 2:54-3:54pm and well on the nighttime path so early.

That set-up would be ideal. I've always liked both Lincoln Peak and Ellen set-ups for early/late season skiing. Mt Ellen also retains snow very well. I see those north facing trails like FIS with snow on them for a very long time in the spring. I do think it favors spots with easy access to shorter vertical (just a portion of the hill)... for both early and late season skiing. Mostly because it's easier to open and to keep open 1,000 verts or less. We've always joked that it would be fun if Stowe had a mid-mountain lift... say on Nosedive or from the Mtn Triple to the summit. Call it the "Marketing Triple chair" to keep access to skiing/riding going early/late season. A long season is nice. Uphill equipment though has made it feel ok when places don't open/close as early/late as possible. You can still experience it if you want to. It is harder for places to put together 2,000+ verts of continuous acceptable coverage for such a long time.