powderfreak

Good burst. Eyeballing at least 2" at the ski area base as it tapers off. KMVL 051654Z AUTO 00000KT 1/4SM +SN FZFG BKN012 OVC028 M02/M03

Looks like a nice region wide burst of WAA snows moving through. Snowing at least moderate 1/2 mile vis here and seems like a lot of stations are seeing pretty solid vis reductions with this warm frontal snow.

Great sunrise this morning ahead of the system. Funny thing is listening to the grooming team chat on the radio about how awesome the sunrise is a full 20 minutes or more before I see anything in the base area. The sun rises a lot earlier at 3,600ft.

Getting a little snow daily is good for the soul.

I'm always up for a fair trade. Everyone should share the goods.

Today's 18z GFS has dropped the Kuchie snowfall up here a good 10-inches compared to yesterday's 18z run... and gave it to SE Mass. Otherwise, most areas in between are unchanged. Seems like a very fair trade from the NW corner to the SE corner.

. It's the ARW not the NMB members though. Those suckers are always suppressed. Have to weed out the NMB ones to get to the real good solutions on the SREFs. Hopefully SNE takes it to the woodshed. I go back and forth over if it is better for suppression depression up here, or a forum with the mood of a funeral parlor.

And then after taking laps in the pea soup fog this morning, it rapidly cleared around midday and left us with the first view of the upper mountain in at least 4 days. Turned into a postcard afternoon... brochure style views.

On a much lighter note... some good turning conditions out there. The freezing mist didn't affect the snow surface in the woods at all (the supercooled droplets get snagged by the trees) and the trails only had a slight zipper crust that was easily handled by 100mm underfoot skis. I found 3" at the High Road Stake from overnight. Was hoping for more, but the density made it ski deeper. This had some moisture in it and skied like a third of an inch of QPF overnight, which is a good resurface level... overnight reset.

I've only met him in passing once with another photographer, but it really hits home when it's someone who is at the top of the experienced scale. It can happen to literally anyone. You can tell he was experienced because he had an avalanche beacon on transmit, even though he was traveling alone. I've seen a lot of people questioning wearing a beacon if solo... That's the move of an experienced skier to 1) be able to help another party if you come across an incident and can lend a hand or 2) so people can find you and return your body to your loved ones if you get caught as in this case.

The Lincoln Lynx. The ski community will feel this for a long time. This dude has more descents under his belt of every major peak than most. He was the poster child for Eastern Skiing.

I know who he is. He is an extremely educated and long time expert skier in NNE. He's been in countless magazine photos and covers over the years like Powder, Skiing and Ski. A Mad River Glen local. A central member of the Eastern ski community. Crushing news.

Awesome man, that clears it up. Still the only person I've ever shot photos with out of a helicopter, haha. Looks like 3-4" on Mansfield past 24 hours, getting some decent freezing mist again now though in the base area. Enough that you needed to use your wipers driving in. Snow doesn't seem affected yet but if it keeps up it's going to crust up.

Yikes holy sh*t.

Your post made me look and find a new high for the Kuchie snowfall map . 64.3” at MVL is laughable entertainment but still almost 3” frozen water that run. That is one active parade of events.

Where are you located over there? Radar looks great. Grooming department on Mansfield estimating bursts over 1”/hr. We’ve even got some making it to town but given the radar it seems the heavy stuff is staying tight to the ski area and then westward.

Yeah that’s why everyone has covers in the winter over their beds. Once you get snow and ice in there it’s not leaving.

Need more photos of your buried state and driveway! Ha ha. I know plenty of people with small tractors and stuff for plowing their driveways that live a bit outside of town and have those long driveways like you in snow country.

Some great skiing out there this afternoon despite the freezing mist and tough visibility. Need to get into the woods. Down the staircase.

Yeah looked like the mountain picked up a quick inch from 4-5pm. Radar looks great. I see we've got @Froude lurking so that's always a good sign for upslope, ha.

Then get a Billy Mueller single in April off a hostile pattern.

I never find a need to wax unless it’s super arctic cold and getting no glide, but mostly it’s all about spring time. When snow starts warming up and becomes a suction cup on your ski bases, time to put on plenty of spring wax. I don’t do much to my skis but I also have a $250,000 robotic tuning machine named “The Hulk” in the shop, lol. That thing is nuts.

You and J.Spin sitting at the top. I think he's over 95" now too. I'm usually 3 feet behind him by the end of the season at least... he's got me by 25" at this point.

8.3" storm total here. Nice moderate event for the NW fringe.

1.5” since the 6.5” clearing... ~8.0” in 18 hours. -SN continues. A ski town on a snowy evening is a good vibe. Persistent light snow should last through tomorrow.