powderfreak

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.

Yeah it melts quickly off mountain but you’ll get scattered days here and there. October 2011 definitely, there was a couple November storms where it’s happened recently. Not last year of course but there was a storm a few Nov ago that crushed Hubby and Dendrite with heavy wet snow leaving them with more than the summit. It does happen early season...might only be a couple days of it before it melts down low and the summit passes back up.

Coming down steadily at the mountain. Had 1” at 5:30am to put on the snow report (I see Smuggs put 1” too) but by the time the lifts open it’ll be more at this rate. The stuff in town seemed very fluffy but up here it seems denser with small flakes. Should ski really nicely. We’ll see what we can pick up today.

I bet it happens quite a bit early season after suppressed storms... but pretty cool so many folks are getting to experience snow depths higher than the mountain snow belts.

I feel like over the last few years we've gotten more of that SWFE type density up here than we had in the past...absolutely no empirical data to back that up though.

No doubt, I would too...we had some big pasting going on last November. Great for the scenery and base. I do think most events come down to LE anyway when it comes to staying power...but all else has to be equal. For skiing and even NNE vibe, the drier snow mixed with more consistent cold seems to work.

HRRR is pretty robust for tomorrow along the Spine... 18z GFS hammers Jay...

High of 31F up here with overcast and occasional flurries today in town and some snow showers on the hill. EURO and other models argue for some light snow accumulation tonight into tomorrow morning... 0.3” at Mansfield would be nice. I’ll keep you all posted on whether it’s 0.9” or 1.7” at home . Maybe a good car shot from the parking lot with 2-3” of fairy dust at the Mtn.

Now that’s worth looking forward to.

Apparently when it’s over me you pull 20 spots though lol. Depends where in New England it is I guess.

Ha yeah I mean I’ve had some snow on the ground for what seems like 3 weeks... I wouldn’t feel too bad for me .

Man just middle of the pack now after this storm. Now I need to nickel and dime my way back up until the next big SNE storm .