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7 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Wow, those are some wrinkled, old man hands.

2 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Really nice booms coming from just to the north.  Sounds like summer, ha.

Got back from the dentist in Burlington about an hour ago and there was actually some clearing and blue skies visible.  I guess I wasn't really expecting to see that much at all today.

11 minutes ago, kdxken said:

Long wait up that way. But once it comes it's beautiful. Almost prettier than fall.

It is underrated for sure. It seems like every year I forget how many shades of green there can be until spring rolls around. 

Yea that looks like a damn good pizza. 

7 hours ago, forkyfork said:

nothing tastes good in new england

Never had maple syrup have you?

6 minutes ago, NW_of_GYX said:

Man you’re courageous riding the roads around here. I gave that up years ago for the dirt. Rather hit a tree than get run over by a teenager on their phone 

I only ride rec paths and rail trails. For one thing, I’m lazy and the hills on rail trails usually max out at 2-3%. The main reason though is that I don’t want to deal with cars at all. The roads her have little to no shoulder. Even where they have attempted to create bike lanes, I don’t trust the drivers. 

38 minutes ago, Vinny Findley said:

My sister in law lives in Walden off Bayley Hazen Road. That bridge looks like the one that goes over 15. The path also crosses Bayley Hazen Road. They were still building it the last time I was up there.

That bridge is the Fisher Covered Bridge in Walcott. It’s right next to Rt. 15. I had originally thought about riding towards Walden but there is work going on to repair flood damage from last summer. 

5 hours ago, powderfreak said:

Had to drive down to White Plains, NY today and then heading to Albany.  Went I-91 to 84 and then over into NY… Looks like June once south of Springfield with all the leaves and greenery, love it.

However it’s warmer up in northern VT… car says 62F here while MVL just hit 70F.

It was a beautiful afternoon. I took it off and went for a bike ride on the LVRT. Hardwick to Wolcott and back. Finished with tacos in Hardwick when I was done. 

4 hours ago, backedgeapproaching said:

Leaf out exploding in the SVT banana belt. Low 70s today and mostly sunny. Perfect May day.

1 hour ago, powderfreak said:

It was low 50s and showery with a ceiling around 2kft this afternoon.  Did hit 61F at 11am but was all downhill from there with wet-bulb cooling in showers.  Finally broke up and dried up rapidly between 5-6pm.

Its crazy how comfortable it is as long as the sun is out.  Even temps in the 50s feel all good when the sun is out.  Coming out of winter, it all feels mild.

And we were somewhere between you both. It was sunny early and it was nice but we clouded up and had a few sprinkles and the temps dropped. I thought we were going to get rained on playing golf tonight but it cleared off nicely. 

1 hour ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Which wasn’t very often there. It was mostly spring . And actually you did with the dog walking thru snow, radar grabs showing snow just over Stowe and nowhere else (in awe) and pics of downed trees from heavy wet snow.

I measured 110” of snow this year. Snow wasn’t the issue. 

I will singlehandedly make this thread relevant.  Got up to 67° earlier when the sun was out.  64° now.

May seems like a good month to fire up a warm season thread for us NNErs., Personally, I am looking forward to a hopefully drier summer than last year. 

8 minutes ago, tamarack said:

Very odd winter here:
99.0" snowfall, 10" AN, despite the mildest DJFM of 26 here.
40.9" post-equinox, most I've ever measured, including the 10 years at Fort Kent.  Greatest spring storm, 22.0" on 3/23-24.
3 storms of 12"+, tied for the most of any snow season.  Included 3rd biggest storm, also 3rd biggest April storm.
Only 1,177 SDDs, 67% of average with 111% snowfall.
"Retention metric", SDDs divided by snowfall, was 3rd lowest and by far the lowest for an AN snow total.
TS on Feb. 10 was by far the noisiest winter TS that I can recall.  (If there was a stronger one in NNJ, I've forgotten.)
The 4 "winter" months featured the wettest Dec and wettest March, also the driest Feb.

Can you remind me how SDDs are calculated?

Killington wants to get bigger. Killington is the East’s largest ski resort. A developer wants to expand on that in a big way.

30 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Only 60° here despite sun.

Better than our overcast 45° with a NW wind at 7 mph. 

7 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

I've always wanted to see Hazen's Notch up north.  There's a bunch of cool roads around through the gaps.  Granville Gulf on RT 100 is a great drive too with cool topography, wetlands, river.

Oh yeah, I forgot about Granville. Hazen’s Notch is pretty but it’s not “spectacular”.  242 past Jay is “notchy” feeling. There is a gulf down near Ludlow and Chester that gets pretty tight. 

9 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

RT 108 in Smugglers Notch probably has a bit of time left before it opens to the public.  This last bit of snow should go relatively fast, then they have some repair work to do from a variety of water damage during the many thaws this winter had.

My guess is the road opens between May 5 and May 10?  Closer to May 5?

Still some snow on the road and ground up there above 1,800ft and especially above 2,000ft where the road maxes out around 2,200ft.  Even evidence of ice falls and wet avalanches reaching the road elevation from up high.  Just an awesome topography zone and feels wild and western.  Hard to replicate in Vermont.

It’s pretty unique in VT.  What are the other gaps/notches? Hazel’s Notch, Appalachian Gap, Lincoln Gap, Middlebury Gap and Brandon Gap are the ones I can think of and none of them are quite the same.
 

Oddly, the closest thing I can think of is a valley location, the Williamstown Gulf. The Second Branch of the White River cuts through the hills and Rt. 14 runs along side it. At its narrowest, there is barely enough room for the road and the river. The sides are really steep and there are cliffs. Rt.14 gets closed there once in awhile from ice/snow slides. The only picture I could find online is an old postcard that doesn’t really do it justice. 

High for the year so far 73.2° but it looks like rain isn’t far away. 

49 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

66F off a low of 25F.

Went for a skin, Mansfield is still top to bottom on all snowmaking runs for the most part.

Chose Liftline and had some of the best, smoothest corn snow you’ll find in the East.  Four nights of freezing, and now sun and warmth.  Phenomenal sliding.

 

Now walking the still closed Notch road RT 100 with the dog… first snow patches on road show up around 1600ft but long stretches of bare pavement exist.  Pretty crazy how long it takes for the snow to melt on the east side. I heard west slope that gets afternoon sun is completely gone, even up high.

 

Classic NNE Saturday.

It has been. I’m about to head out and play my first holes of the season. Hopefully I don’t twist or tear something. Lol. It sucks getting old!

Already up to 51° off a low of 29°

6 hours ago, Angus said:

I may be done for the season but still holding out hope.

Just looking wistfully at the SLoaf webcam and looks beautiful. They are still skiing with close to 100 trails. On a SLoaf chatboard I read occasionally, there was a discussion of this season's snowfall - 171" with almost no snow falling from January 18 to March 9 - a person posted the following...

 

I think we can all agree that our very own @powderfreakis the gold standard for what he instituted at Stowe. He should be giving seminars at ski industry conferences. 

33 minutes ago, Cold Miser said:

Friday morning frost, fowl, & fumes. 

 

 

 

The water was too cold for them.

1 hour ago, powderfreak said:

Golf and skiing… seems similar to many season passes for skiing that aren’t on the cheap mega passes.

I wish there was a similar mega pass for golf. I’d snap one up in a heartbeat. There has been no significant golf consolidation, at least in this area. I’d love to be able to regularly play a rotation of courses as a “member”.

2 hours ago, kdxken said:

Can't complain about that. I've probably been in the '70s 10 times in my life.

Thats better than my two 79s. 

Went up and paid my membership yesterday, $1250. That’s a second year price, next year it goes up to the full boat price, $1799.