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Great thing about BW is one good snowstorm and they will be 90-95% open given there isn't a lot of rock and the slopes are relatively gentle. How much snow and ice is left in the woods and unopened trails. It must be pretty much boilerplate which is great if the next storm can adhere. Skiing Cranmore with family on Saturday and hoping for a storm - I'm averting my eyes until we're closer to Friday. Also, planning to xc at jackson on Friday.

ouch at crotched. this is very unfortunate... As a result of these challenges, we have made the difficult decision to amend our schedule of operations to Wednesday through Sunday, beginning January 1, with the following hours: Wed. 9-5; Thurs-Sat. 9-9; Sun. 9-5. This change to a five-day schedule will allow our hard-working resort teams to better focus on delivering the best possible ski and ride experience for our guests on those days.

awesome ski report... https://www.instagram.com/p/CYEmHD4l9PE/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Vista Way is one of my absolute favorite trails in all of NE. Maybe a combination of the views and the terrain but it never gets old. I saw it was open on the trail report and thought 'ouch' - there are a lot of rocks and given its exposure, lot of snow gets blown off especially on the right side. I've definitely hit a few things on it over the years!

100% concur. Great band. My brother-in-laws and wives saw him in Vegas this fall said his show was still very good. Of course if you are into this sort of thing, if you talk about Faces you need to discuss Steve Marriott and Humble Pie.

here's more than you ever wanted to know...and the NYTimes refers to the dish as "Tso's" and you know they are never wrong...don't believe this is behind paywall. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/world/asia/general-tso-chicken-peng-chang-kuei.html

Cannon IMO has really stepped up their game in recent years in snowmaking investment. I know some folks here think it is too icy but I think that is in some respects a function of location. I was pleasantly surprised yesterday - coverage was deep on trails open. If they get a crush of people over the holidays without more terrain, it will be a problem but the pickings in NH are slim right now from what I can tell. I doubt I will downhill ski for remainder of calendar year.

skied cannon today - 4 off the top and 3 of the front 5 (Gary, Rocket and Zoomer) very impressed with the job they have done. snowed most of day but probably only accumulated an inch during day. rain and freezing rain changed to snow at 104 and 93 on way up. did a sunshine village, kicking horse, revelstoke and fernie trip a few years ago. Revelstoke is interesting - deep winter at the top and spring skiing at bottom. drove thru/over rogers pass going between golden and revelstoke - all the avalanche infrastructure is cool. You see signs for heli-skiing all along the road out there...kind of cool. Lots of snow everywhere out there. a friend has skied the heli operations out of revelstoke and said it was fantastic.

crotched isn't even open although I did look at their webcam today and they have made snow. tough deal whatever is going on which from I read seems to be staffing shortages and equipment malfunctions.

It doesn't look the nordic center is open yet in presque isle.

i noticed Killington reported 11" this AM versus 6" for Okemo and the storm a few weeks ago Killington reported 19" not sure about Okemo but I bet that represents a bulk of delta.

grew up on the south shore and remember walking up to the local pond on xmas day to try on the skates Santa had brought the night below. Right around zero degrees...a couple of circles around the pond and I was done and headed home. That was some real cold. I still have the skates.

That's a great article and I have zero memory of it. Living in Waterville Maine and I should remember that event very clearly. I remember very little snow that Fall. Late December was good. The article references Squaw Mountain's manager which is awesome.

hiked middle and north sugarloaf off of zealand road yesterday. lots of snowmaking at both BW and Cannon. Looks like Gary's and zoomer will be open soon with caveat re: upcoming weather. We stopped to take picture at BW and someone in parking lot said skiing was very good. The cars parked along 302 in crawford notch was silly - weekend summer like. Only saw 2 couples on our hike.

I don't know SR but that route isn't great 'vertical' at Wildcat - I would normally skate and pole from the offload area to middle wildcat. I noticed that Wildcat's twitter is advertising a hiring event this Friday. What's strange about the current state of snowmaking is Peaks was using the mountain as a testing center for the HDK guns a few years prior to Vail acquisition. That TomCat lift is slow...

LOL - wildcat will open with Tomcat lift only - so nothing from top. route down will be cat tracks to middle wildcat to bobcat. This is NOT their normal opening which is essentially Lynx with some polecat at the top - although in 2006, I do remember skiing december 30 in this configuration but can't remember the circumstances - weather (it was snowing), mechanical problems, et cetera. Bobcat is wide.

Wildcat will open Friday they just announced on Twitter.

I've been checking the killington webcams periodically and they are still at it. they will have to turn off the guns most likely this morning at some point with warming temps but it will be interesting to see the size of the piles. Pretty awesome effort.

hiked north twin yesterday which had snow on the last couple hundred vertical feet. Cannon Mountain has made snow on upper ravine, upper cannon and bypass. the profile (cannonball) lift is another good candidate for early/late season skiing, getting uploaded/downloaded by the peabody lift. the profile lift base is above 3,000'

This is the prelude to the King of Spring debate! I have always thought the skyline lift at Sugarloaf that runs from 2,400-3,800' which can be accessed by a couple of different base area lifts would be the ultimate early/late season pod - western maine, great snow retention and terrain in that area of the mountain is outstanding. Just too far though. Killington is perfectly situated in terms of distance. I always enjoy my early May visit there to ski bumps on a warm sunny day.

I was Epic last year and this year with the Indy pass, I suspect my per day expense by season end will likely go up with lodging to ski Jay and Saddleback

Correct. I liked Butch as a kid. Had that football mentality - played backup QB at 'Bama for the Bear. I was looking for something about Rick Burleson's shoulder but couldn't find anything definitive about his rotator until the '82 season with the Angels. He was very durable but I remember him getting hurt - checked https://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/hittinglogs.php?p=burleri01&y=1978 he was out from July 10 thru July 27.

you are correct about The Rooster's torn rotator. I will be always scarred by that collapse - I think it is unexplainable given the level of hatred between the Sox and the yankees. My memory of Butch Hobson a few years later is his errant throws to first base from third. Just looked this up, maybe it wasn't a few years later!! His elbow was junk. In 1978, Hobson hit 17 home runs with 80 RBIs. However, he posted 43 errors, the most for any American League fielder in that season, and his .899 fielding average also was the first below .900 by a regular player in 60 years.

LOL. Who?? Making me feel old. For the younger folks, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Burleson The infield during his time was George Scott, Remy, Burleson and Hobson. All in one way or another larger than life in the Boston sports conscience with exception of The Rooster.

Power came on late this afternoon - multiple national grid trucks descended on the neighborhood. Call me impressed.