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They will probably really try to push their close date this season an extra weekend or two barring a weather calamity. Arrived at Palisades this afternoon...60 degrees at the base and most of the 90" gone. Crazy.

We got maybe 13" here in Concord MA and that might be generous. But it was a good storm with wind and drifting. I had to go to Norwell today (think Weymouth/ Hanover/Hingham) no power, street clean up poor. Snow depth is thigh high there. What a mess.

Great movie. Was just watching a few nights ago a clip of dialogue between George C. Scott, playing a US General, and Peter Sellars, playing the President (one of three characters he played in the movie). A masterpiece. That's Slim Pickens riding the A-tomic bomb!

@mahk_webstahas a kid skiing at King Ridge I loved looking out at Kearsarge. It has such great prominence from the surrounding area. I was surprised years later to find out it is less than 3K feet high!

I arrive next Saturday for a week. It is going to rain this coming week up to the ridges...crazy. After the storms, they are at 105% of snow. Need to make a decision whether to pivot to Lake Louise and Revelstoke or stay with original plan Schweitzer (ID) and Red Mountain. Schweitzer has only gotten 130" this season but is reporting the resort is nearly 100% open for first time this season. I'm strongly leaning towards Lake Louise and Revelstoke. The parking lot at Great Brook (Carlisle MA) has been full everyday. Between Olympics, school vacation and good snow, it's great to see people out enjoying winter sports.

Skied at Sugarbush on Thursday. It was very good. At Killington yesterday and found similar conditions. Stuck to groomers but peeking into woods coverage looked excellent. On the lifts, met multiple people from Midwest who had pivoted from western resorts to the east because of the lack of snow in the west. It should be a big week with vacations.

I have lots of opinions about LV but I don't fault her. She skied just fine a few days earlier. Her line was too high, she got caught in the gate, got twisted around and blown up. She had plenty of medical advice & care. They need to get medical clearance but there is definitely a tension there between medical staff and skiers. I've skied a bunch of these WC and Olympic DH courses- making many, many turns - they are all insane when you consider the skiers are basically straight lining.

Yes. I happened to be skiing at Pat's Peak last night. Left the hill sometime after 8:15 and they were on their way to 2" already. It was snowing so hard on 202 getting back to 89 that I got lost - this is really hard to do! But the visibility was very poor. They are reporting 6". Ragged is reporting 5".

Skied at Berkshire East today. They were making snow on a couple of trails. Conditions generally good. The steep man-made weren't open need more snow. The woods were not open either. The kids arrived around 2 and took three more runs and left! I always enjoy my visits there.

3" ?? I just looked on a map of Sebago for the location of Great Bay. Now I understand. Crazy how infrequently Sebago now freezes.

Been seeing some crazy good skating on Sebago.

Skied at SLoaf yesterday with my college buddy commemorating our first trip there together 44 years plus a week ago. We were going to ski today but temps looked uninviting which was correct decision. Very chilly and temps dropped and wind picked up throughout the day. Happy to be wearing the full face mask. There was a big U21 race - downhill yesterday - going on with participants from US and Canada. Made me reminisce on the chairlift with some unsuspecting, captive racer about the 1984 Junior World Championship held there and skiing with some Austrian or Swiss skiers. Poor kid! Getting old! Conditions were pretty good, they have a very solid base of natural and manmade. Bubblecuffer skied well - one of their natural, steep trails off the top was very nice and well covered but on the other side of Gondi Line, Winterway was closed with stuff still sticking out of the slope. They need more natural snow.

Was out walking the dog this morning thinking about this - I have referenced it before on the board ... This week in 1982 at SLoaf, first time there, half dozen runs or so and bad frost bite each time (turned around and sent into lodge to warm up by the liftie) so unpleasant that I did not ski for another two years 83/84 season. I believe this stretch still remains record cold for the area.

5" right outside of Concord MA center.

Nuts!