powderfreak

Still finding fresh untracked lines at Stowe despite the holiday week crowds. Anyone telling you that you can't find fresh lines hasn't looked hard enough

Nice! I've always wanted to go there. A 4.5 mile loop sounds awesome and I've seen a lot of friends post photos from there over the past few years. One thing I notice there is despite the very warm departures at times this winter, the NNE climate still supports winter. Lakes are frozen solid, with snow on the ground even with a +5.9F to +7.4F month of January in the northern half of Vermont. What we have had is a good supply of very cold nights this past month though. Days have warmed nicely but some of these nights are pretty high end cold.

Wind-blown chalky snow up here. Base is solid and snow is fun but those 80-100mph winds did some wind-packing for sure. Blew a lot of the snow out of the trees too. From looking at the Mansfield Chin, the wind really scoured things and moved that snow down into the snowfields. Nice lower elevation transport in this wind.

Only 2" for this event at the ski resort.... a very light crust too from some freezing mist of about a couple tenths of an inch on the top of the snow surface.

Cold and clear the past two days until this evening when high clouds rolled in. A 46-degree diurnal spread today in the valley... -23F to +23F. February looking like February should.

Beautiful dog. I've obviously got a soft spot for black labs.

We got lucky and got smoked with a pretty heavy band for a couple hours picking up a quick 2" of paste.

Put together this latest storm's snowfall readings on Mansfield at the High Road Plot. 19" total and I'd wager there was close to 2.0" of water when all was said and done. 155" on the season so far, tracking below the 20 year average but we have now hit the same amount of snow we had in the entire 2015-16 season, ha.

From Banter thread but will live on in here: What a Sunday out there. -22F this morning on the full moon clear skies, fresh deep pack...it looked like the surface of the moon this morning at -20s. Sun is out and temps are rising fast. 16" of snow depth in the yard. There's still a pretty good glaze from the ZR before the snow on the pines...they are feeling it after acouple days of solid weight.

Clear, calm and cold this evening. Fresh snowpack, crystal clear skis and crazy bright moonlight...

The landscape is lit right now. Another shot from a friend driving through Stowe today that's worth sharing...

The latest EPS continues to show 0.75-1.0" of moisture across Northern Vermont. If we can remain mostly frozen, it will be a good addition to the snowpack I expect mixed precip but would love to avoid plain rain.

Nice shot there @ChasingFlakes! Here's one from Stowe yesterday. The Northern Greens have been showing off with this past storm cycle.

I believe we had it at 37” prior to the event after those mild couple days last Friday/Saturday. We’ve been supplying the NWS with daily photos of the Stake since their camera battery died (I think they are trying to replace it today or tomorrow). I thought 37” was the lowest I saw documented before the storm. Getting back towards normal now. Feels like it, this stuff was dense and the positive impact on skiing this moist upslope event had cannot be understated. Yesterday skied Upper Goat for first time this season with no ice. Just nice dense powder.

Had a few lingering flurries at 5am at the mountain that cleared out rapidly from 6-7am here. Clear skis now and that’s the official end to 4-days of persistent snow that brought 15” of dense snow to the upper half of the mountain.

Ha! Used that earlier out on the hill. Just constant refreshes and finally the frozen QPF shot the mountain needed, including the base area. The base area at 1,500ft was around 7-8" total...3,000ft was twice that over the past few days.

Ha they try to drive up here all the time. Last year we had someone under the influence try to go up and get stuck axle deep next to the Mountain Ops building. I saw two cars stuck on New Years morning trying to go up the Cat Road here. One made it all the way to the bridge before starting the climb to Spruce.

Just an amazing powder cycle from this latest storm.

And this was at noon today... added a real nice thick blanket to the mountain. Best day of skiing this season for me. Who knew this storm would continue to produce so much. The skiing from this storm is insane up high. Just knee deep trenches. Thick snow though, perfect with lots of small little flakes packing in tight.

Man, its like the energizer bunny. Still ripping snow at the ski area (boxed area). Roads are white down in town again but nothing like what's happening up at 1,500ft there.

Just getting crushed. High Road Stake showing 13” storm total. Another 4” fell today. Low ratio graupel and small flakes. What a QPF dump on the mountain. Skis very deep.

Awesome upslope paste event still in progress over here at 1,500ft! We’ll try to send some your way. This has added some decent QPF as these ratios are under 10:1 wet snow. Base of the ski resort is a winter wonderland. A bunch more snow once above that 2-2.5kft elevation.

Holy shit! You only have 6” at 1500ft? I have 6” at 750ft and there’s 18-19” at your same 1,500ft at the ski area. Mountain picked up another 6” in the last 24 hrs from the upslope burst last night and it’s still snowing...total of 8” so far from the entire event as of 11:30. Finally getting winter momentum going again.

It's been snowing nicely this evening. Roads were snow covered but slick... folks may hate on the upslope at times, but it keeps snow going when there are no real storms in sight. Wet snow still...sticking to every little branch. Mountain has had several inches since 4pm.

Yup that’s what I found. It gets that wet packy weird snow below 2,000ft where your skis sort of do their own thing lol. It’s an odd surface. But up high is great. Really fantastic in the woods. That dense snow gives a nice buffer in the Glades.