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15 minutes ago, tamarack said:

Had a couple nights there in August of that year on the way to Norway.  Reykjavik AirBnB had a 5'x4' photomosaic of the whole island on the LR wall - utterly fascinating.  Temp never topped 60 while we were there - normal temps.  (And never got to 70 in our 10 days in Norway, with some rain each day there, also not out of the ordinary - Bergen bills itself as Europe's wettest city.)

We did in reverse order - 2018 was sweden and norway and iceland in 2017. flew from Stockholm to Bergen but never entered city, drove from there to Alesund over 5-6 days via Voss, Flam, Jostedalsbreen National Park - spectacular. Oslo is also a wonderful city. Have said here before, would love to go back in winter and spend a few weeks downhill, nordic and ski touring

2 hours ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

Just booked our Iceland flights. Hope the volcano is still going in August. 

went for a week in 2017 - spectacular place. stayed in AirBnB everywhere.

Only good thing about this heat is it will warm up the lake for next weekends install of the dock.

Went up to Tuckerman's today and took two runs down left gully which was really the only route down that looked serviceable. Chute had multiple, deep runnels formed by sliding snow. Left gully had sliding snow too but you could ski across it as it was moving down the slope. There were about 50 people in the bowl all together. Hillmans is now disconnected about 3/4 of the way up which is something I always like to ski. There was consistent snowpack in the woods just below the caretaker hut so approximately 3,800'. Assuming that's it for the 2020-21 ski season, a strange one for sure. I weighed my pack when I finished, 40lbs according to the scale, I'm tired!

4 hours ago, Lava Rock said:

Short outing on the boat this afternoon. Pulled up to the dock and went to tie up. Forgot cell phone was in top pocket. Woops, out it went and sunk 8 ft. F it. I'm going in. Water temp 58f. Went down three times but too murky and no mask. Pissed. Went up to bar, but shivering too much. Wife suggested we get in car and put heat on. Good idea. Got home and took shower. Cell phone wasn't worth hypothermia or worse. Using old phone. I'll get it back when it warms up and bring mask, but it's probably toast. Otherwise, a decent day but missed the showers. No surprise there.

Up in your neck of woods yesterday. Was surprised by # of boats in the water and activity on lakes. Top of Long Lake boat launch was busy. I still remember vividly, my Uncle and Dad trying to get me to dive maskless to find a propeller part which they'd accidently dropped in the the sebago lake basin at some boat yard back in the early 70's. There was no visibility and I panicked almost immediately! They kept sending me back down!

I bought a Dewalt - push/not self-propelled $399 - used once. worked fine. I'm finding that lawn mowers and ethanol gas even with stabilizers don't mix well. It was nice to press a button and start right up. I now have two old combustion engine mowers I need to get rid of...neither work

41 minutes ago, Chrisrotary12 said:

For Kevin: https://www.lowellsun.com/2021/04/25/wildfire-scorches-more-than-30-acres-of-land-in-pelham-hudson-n-h/

Thanks for posting that. I was heading south on rt. 3 just north of exit 1 where you can look out over the Lowe's to the east and saw that plume of smoke on Saturday between 5 and 6. It was pretty impressive and definitely made be do a double take.

11 hours ago, wxeyeNH said:

I think (for my area) this winter is a wrap.  I have had accumulating snow as late as Memorial Day weekend but I don't see any cold coming and snow chances greatly decrease by May 1

Great day today.  Best part is that the black flies have not come out.  Real greenup coming next week.  Love NNE!

 

raked all day on Winnisquam - it is  very dry up there and the trees are ready to blow up next week. easily 2 weeks ahead of schedule right now. Beautiful day today. and NO black flies!

1 hour ago, WhitinsvilleWX said:

Ok here we go. Just got my second jab. Waiting my 15 minutes. 

heading over to the CVS right now for my #2

4 minutes ago, bch2014 said:

Got it. I remember skiing Pico not long after that storm and it was choked with snow. 

Pico is a great mountain, gets great snow and everyone goes to Killington instead. The only problem is my daughter doesn't like it for some reason.

Wow, I just saw the tweet by Gray that ice out was declared on Moosehead on Friday, I didn't think was possible!

https://www.maine.gov/dacf/parks/water_activities/boating/ice_out_dates.shtml

Hiked the kinsman ridge yesterday from the south, up the AT. I can report there is still a lot of snow in the woods from about 2,800' and up. I was frankly astounded by the depth. the snow is rotten but we were going down to our hips before slipping on the snowshoes. Estimate 8-10" that fell from this past storm, snowed all day at elevation. Saving grace was the air temperature was moderate and there were not strong winds.

@tamaracksnowing pretty good at SLoaf. They just announced ski and golf next weekend btw.

windy here in concord, ma - has been for last 2 hours.

left concord a little after 6am. first traces of snow around shirley, had to pull off at rt. 12 in fitchburg for gas, once back on rt. 2 and going up hill from there, it starts snowing. 3-4" at bottom of WaWa, got up to about 1,600' and there was 8" (all eyeball) and it was dumping. Poor dog could hardly walk he had so much snow in his undercarriage...it was comical. snowing all the way back to concord when I arrived at 9:20ish. calling it 1/2" right now.

34 minutes ago, wxeyeNH said:

Looking at the 18Z GFS I better gas up the genny.  I have been watching this for days.  Wagons north.  Really looking forward to 1.25" of qpf.  We need the precip  just not a birch bender in Mid April

I had tentatively planned to come up and start raking this weekend. Earliest ever, huh! 

7 hours ago, powderfreak said:

RT 108 through Smugglers Notch just opened per VTRANS.  I think that's easily the earliest I've ever seen the Notch open.

9 days ago, my son and I walked to the Cambridge/Stowe town line...maybe 8/10ths of a mile in from the gate. There wasn't much snow on the road then, surprised it wasn't open sooner.

Wildcat closes at EOD for season. Obviously the past 4 weeks of weather kind of, sort of gets them off the hook but still.

Skied Cannon today. Had a lot of fun, beautiful day but they will pushing some snow to keep going thru Sunday. Plenty of snow off trails serviced by the profile lift, although the area around the immediate summit is thin. But the trails connecting the top to bottom are in tough shape. Middle Cannon is shot, bypass closed so you need to drop down and ski spookie b/c middle ravine is in tough shape. The front 5 are now 3 and none are in great shape. zoomer was disconnected yesterday but they pushed snow and gary's and rocket aren't deep but should make it. Due to lack of snowy, there isn't a bump on hill which is what I like to ski but it beat work. Hopefully not the last day of season but very could have been. 

Another fun day at Stowe, arrived to Santa Ana winds in the parking lot this AM which was strange b/c there was no sign of wind in downtown Stowe nor up on the hill in Waterbury. Only the triple was running due to wind so we lapped available terrain. Sometime around noon, they dropped the rope to Hayride and we were among the first to take a couple nice runs top to bottom before the masses got there. From then on, we called it a day at 2,  we alternated skiing gulch which had some nice bumps but had been closed earlier and Hayride. A nice two days of skiing, won't be renewing my Epic pass and will miss skiing Stowe. On the way out of town took a couple pictures of the mountain with fields in the foreground, very picturesque. My son was going to snap a picture of me standing on one of the picnic tables on the summit today, oh well. edit: btw: it was my son's bday yesterday and with every scan, we got to hear The Beatles' Birthday - I hope Vail is paying Apple Corp a royalty.

Good day at Stowe. Skied the Spruce lift from 9 to 11. Friend joined us who'd skied yesterday and said it never softened. After a couple of runs off the foreunner lift, we jumped into hayride and discovered it was soft snow top to bottom. We only skied lifeline and national once. We were laughing that you get fixated on skiing goat, lifeline, national, starr & lookout and overlook the rest of the mountain. Lots of snow left on the mountain. Back tomorrow.

1 hour ago, powderfreak said:

We call it "a fun challenge" on the report.  A trail is "sporty" is another one.  People seek those runs out if you call something sporty, they know what it means.  They want to hop from patch to patch to avoid rocks and dirt. 

Probably wasting way too much time giving this any consideration but this kind of skiing in the Spring I find quite enjoyable. By the end of the season, with your ski fitness at a maximum and your mechanics fine tuned, picking your way down a slope avoiding rocks and roots on a warm sunny day is fun...a bit of a puzzle to be solved. You can't ski soft, deep troughed bumps every run! I find VT in general is better for this b/c its' slopes aren't as rocky. 

WaWa never blows much snow on that beginner area but this discussion did get me curious...yeah, they really have taken a beating but they have at least three groomers pushing snow around right now but that looks late Aprilish for sure.   https://www.wachusett.com/The-Mountain/Media-Center/Web-Cams.aspx

33 minutes ago, Lava Rock said:

Reggae is happening this year?

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Reggae reimagined...they seem to have the right idea - have DJs playing at bottom and top of lifts...they emphasize it's for people skiing NOT a concert.

https://www.sugarloaf.com/events-calendar/reggae-fest-2021

Wow, that's a brutal picture from the lift. Just read that Sugarloaf is planning to fire up the guns tomorrow. They have to feel Reggae fest is threatened, I'm assuming they are going to focus on trails to bottom of mountain to the superquad. LOL, I was just typing 'English Easter vacation business'...oh yeah, we aren't doing that this year!

just back from crotched. they made the perfect amount of snow! drove a bit less than 3 hour to ski a bit more than three hours! They would be pushing snow around to connect trails after tomorrow. Heard things - from a friend of a friend - are very bad at Wildcat...like can they remain open. I just looked at the webcam and seen it worse so I'm guessing some hyperbole but unfortunate. @LongBeachSurfFreaknext three weekends at Sugarloaf are Reggae. I'll need to figure out my ski strategy - given I am planning to ski Friday thru Monday this coming week.