powderfreak

The hometown ALB with the biggest positive departure to date on the entire East Coast. Crazy that they are at 26.8" so far with a 5.5" average to date. Not far from half their annual snowfall prior to December 7th. That's why I always say it's hard to forecast a ratter for areas that average 60" or less in any year....one good storm can take those areas out of ratter territory percentage wise pretty quickly.

Looks like the snow machine has finally shut down. Only a few flurries falling when I left the mountain a little while ago. I was up at the shop when the groomers headed out around 5pm and it was dumping cotton candy... what a wintry few days. Last 24 hours with two clearings yielded 8" of new snow (5" last night and 3" today). The beta-testing snow board did pretty decent but even the slightest breeze does skim snow off it. We need to put plywood around the fence to keep the wind out and this thing may work ok. You can tell by the snow though that this was just a fluff bomb.

It is nuking at the mountain still. Huge flakes!

Best office in New England... sorry Legro . By far the most skiing and riding discussions in the AFDs of any office. Warms the heart.

Life in the snow globe. Another one converted to upslope way of life! Stacked up on every little twig today. Such a beautiful drive through town to the mountain. Hollywood movies spend a million dollars to recreate these scenes with perfect dendrites fluttering down and stacking on everything.

Its like someone has ripped open a pillow over the mountain. These flakes have the slowest fall rate ever but the air is thick with them.

I can’t believe it’s still snowing. Just coming down at the ski area. 13” in 48 hours at 6am and another 1-2” at least since then.

Last night was pure air. About 3” at home in the past 24 hours.

Seems to be snowing the hardest of the day. Flood lights filled thick with dendrites.

Nice snowy evening and the upslope flow seems to be doing it's thing. Up at the ski resort there was around 3" on the ice rink and it was coming down steadily when I left an hour or so ago. Down in town found 2" at home. Not the deep snow of SNE but wintry vibe with snowy evenings several times this week.

Nice snowy evening and the upslope flow seems to be doing it's thing. Up at the ski resort there was around 3" on the ice rink and it was coming down steadily when I left. Down in town found ~2" at home. Not the deep snow of SNE but wintry vibe with snowy evenings several times this week.

Absolutely nuking up here at the mountain. Just pouring dendrites. I bet we just got an inch in 20 minutes, snow growth went through the roof.

Sunny Spruce Quad opens tomorrow with more terrain but I don’t think they dropped any other major ropes today. Got 1-2” throughout the day and still snowing this evening.

Just over 1” on the car this evening. BTV has been down to 1/2sm moderate snow for a bit too. Wintry parking lot appeal lol.

HRRR looks nice. Backedgeapproaching should clean up.

Good luck this afternoon dude. Gonna be a bit too far south for up here.

That's a big part of the NNE mtn climo... flakes in the air. It's especially awesome early season with the holiday lights and mood from Thanksgiving to Christmas. Keeps things looking fresh. This little upslope event over the last 18 hours is finally going to snow itself out soon, but it's still snowing steadily on the slopes per friends. Moisture was certainly lacking but this seemed to maximize what precipitable water there was.

Great stuff out there today on Mansfield. The upslope machine brought 6" to the mountain throughout the day and while cold powder, it had some density to it. A lot of small flakes and even graupel at times. Patrol was dropping ropes throughout the day. The base from the November snow set-up perfectly and despite nothing exciting for snow depths, it skied really good. Someone else caught a rare photo of myself heading down to set-up for a photo from below. The natural snow pitch of the Upper National Headwall is one long sustained ramp and it was so fun to just crush it in huge GS turns on an all-natural snow base. We completely missed the big storm but man was this some good skiing. Upslope "bread and butter" snow came through.

This thread is hilarious this evening. Good stuff.

1.5” at home or so today and 4” at 1,500ft with 6” up high. Great day on the slopes.

In the beta testing phase of a snow cam at 3,300ft location. 1” this morning before the board dumped at 6am...then another 3”....4” running total so far. Need to get some denser mesh or even just board up the fence to stop wind flow. It’s still hit or miss but seems to be capturing this event well so far.

Summit Stake is 15-16” now it looks like. Might climb another couple by later today.

Coming down nicely. 2” in the base area now.

Flow is blocked pretty well as it’s backed all the way into BTV. Like an interstate pileup of cars, that pile up of air that can’t get over the Spine has made its way west so the best lift is closer to BTV than the mountains.

Most of the areas SE of the mountains did in that one for sure.