powderfreak

But if you have the active storm track without the cold...

Models with another half inch in the next 72 hours, on soggy ground. The Euro seems like the lighter model.

See any game out there? I know moose season just opened up in the Northeast Kingdom of VT today.

Ok, I guess the difference is that I have not based anything about how I feel about a given situation from postings on FB. I know that thread, commented that any civil discourse on a controversial topic is not possible on FB. I have yet to see or hear anything in public and real life, which is where I form my opinions. There’s no vandalism, confrontations or window smashing that I’m aware of around here. If you go read the comments on the latest WCAX or WMUR news story and applied those comments to every day life you start thinking very differently of people. Is it fair to approach every day life with opinions only generated by FB? People are still sensitive to COVID and there’s no doubt chatter online in places, but again jumping from internet talk to real life is I think the disconnect. That's why telling people “how they will be received” also has a disconnect because it’s not there in personal interactions. If one didn’t read that and just went about their business visiting, they would not be received that way.

You guys taking about growing this is crazy, I feel like we’ve been completely dead/dormant for a full month now.

Yeah theres no doubt in my mind the 4 days of mins in the 20s there in September cranked up the foliage. The valley went at the same time as the higher elevations, when it’s normally two weeks separated. The maples went bright red in the valley before the elevations...there was a period there when no real color was happening above 2,000ft while reds were bursting down low...night time radiation cold definitely played a big role IMO.

Yeah it’s in their heads now. Stein going Stockholm Syndrome, can’t leave your tormentor.

I truly think Facebook is the reason why so many people think this country is a complete dumpster fire. If you spend a lot of time on FB you quickly lose any hope for humanity. It used to be for photos of your kids, or sharing stuff with family and cool things.... but it's changed into one giant cess pool of "people speaking their mind" as they call it. It's all the sudden cool to be confrontational and very opinionated on there in the last year or two. Instagram is what FB used to be... pictures of cool stuff and sharing pics of your kids, things you do, etc. It's like a breath of fresh air after scrolling through FB.

I'm jealous and might be up there for some day tickets, ha. I think you are right about a once in a lifetime season there. The border closed is going to make it feel like a private ski area most days, IMO. That's taking 50% of their normal visitors and literally stopping them. That's no state quarantine rule or anything, that's an international border, you aren't getting through LOL. The most snow in the East coupled with 50% less customers. That opportunity won't come around very often.

That's one big hill 75 miles away.

Don't generalize it that far. It's the same as it has been all summer, it seems like it's Facebook and the Killington area. I've had several people mention the same Killington FB group that Jen references as being extremely toxic. Killington is also the most visited ski resort in the entire Northeast, so maybe there is some friction there given the scale of things in that area, who knows.

Hahaha, Killington must be like that lawless zone in Portland, everyone fending for themselves. We have been inundated by tourist traffic for 4 weekends in a row and despite it being an annoyance from a traffic standpoint (3-way stops at an intersection are NOT that difficult) I haven't heard of any issues. I think the biggest issue was just that due to COVID restrictions of businesses, restaurants, and the ski area doing reduced capacity that the town could not satisfy the number of tourists. People expecting to be able to go out to dinner on vacation, couldn't find reservations, couldn't ride the Gondola or Toll Road, couldn't do the things they normally expected to do. Going forward, managing expectations will be interesting for people with COVID hangover or those who are just completely done with it has definitely started to be seen in the travelers this fall. They truly expect everything to be running 100% capacity and like it would be any other year. So things like not being able to eat out ("I didn't go on vacation to be forced to get take out Chinese food in my hotel room!"), maybe longer wait times or unavailability of their favorite activities are also frustrating, etc. "Why are you turning me away? You only have three small lots full and I see a ton of parking open and my family came to ride the Gondola." "This is the capacity level we feel comfortable operating at." "Why aren't you running at 100%? We are here to give you money, you should take it." I do think it's going to be interesting as much of the operating capacity of say restaurants and activities is geared to a much, much smaller number of visitors (built around the frame work that the quarantines will significantly limit travel), but we are seeing the normal full boat of travelers on the weekends anyway. So there are a surplus of visitors who can't get service or experiences like they expect. Like many seemed to have an expectation rooted in a pre-COVID world, but everything they want to do is operating in a COVID world still, causing this disconnect.

I have to find my photos from October 2006 at Killington. Hurricane Wilma and another nor'easter hit back to back I think? There were two snow events that dropped like 30" across a wide swatch of the Greens (we skied the trees off Starr at Stowe that October), but Killington was the only one open and I was sent there to take photos and do a write up for a publication company. After the 30" of snow, Killington had the K1 Gondola running and the Glades Triple... but they dropped the ropes on literally everything that you could get to off the top of the K1.... including over by Superstar and that pod. The entire Canyon area was open, Snowden, etc. Two lifts and if you could get to a trail from there they let you have it. It was incredible. I have photos of being one of the first skiers out to Superstar and hitting that with only natural snow in October was awesome. They did end up closing some of it at the end of the day because it got beaten up too much. Overall though, it was carte blanche on whatever you wanted to hit. Memorable day for sure.

32F here. A couple final photos from 4kft this afternoon. Alex probably has the same amount of snow in his yard after this one, lol.

Yeah, just glad to get the first mountain snow of the season even if it was only 1-4" and up real high. I just went higher into the sky to find the snow and mreaves drove to the snow, so we are doing our part to get to winter. I love the first snow of the season on the hill, just such a satisfying feeling this evening having wandered around in the snow for several hours.

I know without a doubt if I schedule a western ski trip, it will absolutely puke snow here and correspond to high pressure out west, ha.

Just joking, plenty of snows coming up. I know every time I leave here in the winter we’ll get a storm. My few March vacations in the past 5 years have corresponded with some very large events lol.

When are you in Maryland next?

That's sick. All these towns are right there on the VT/NH border it seems in the Upper CT Valley.

Found a very sharp high elevation snow line today, with a surprising difference even between 3,500ft and 4,000ft. Up on the ridge at 4,000ft it was more like a healthy 3-4" while it was just a coating to 1" at 3,500ft. I did see traces of snow on the ground on the leaves as low as 2,600ft though, so it was melting while I was up there. Reported 1" in to the NWS for the Stake as it was melted out around the base of the stake, but there was a couple inches in the vicinity... so called it 1" just to get something into the record books that there was measurable snow up there today.

1.11” was my final in the stratus over this way.

Yeah 1500ft is often a magic number for snow around these parts.

Yeah 1500ft is often a magic number for snow around these parts.

Ha where you at Mark?