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Angus

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  1. Great day at Saddleback - guessing 12+" - just fantastic skiing everywhere but especially in the woods with nothing lurking underneath. Some wind holds in the AM but was able to avoid. Back tomorrow.
  2. This morning was my first cross country ski in my domicile - concord ma - this season. Amazingly, the 1-2" of snow that fell overnight that covered the locked up 2-3" of sleet, snow and freezing rain that had fallen last week provided a perfect surface In a normal winter, this is something I would have done at least a dozen or two times at this point in the season. Walden Pond looks to be pretty much covered in a very thin layer of ice - perhaps the first time this season! All very crazy. Regardless, it was great.
  3. day 2 of my 2 Indy days at Waterville Valley. What a great day. High winds delayed the summit lift - but I was probably the first person top via the old sunnyside lift - and the wind blew all day but the entire mountain is now open with exception of the woods - although some terrain in there was open and being skied. The lift on the new POD of trails never ran due to high winds and it looks pretty susceptible to wind closures. Groomers left a good deal of the terrain ungroomed so basically skied wind pack, small powder bumps all day. There is a good amount boilerplate under the new snow but with moderate traffic, it wasn't an issue except around the lift off-ramps. 5 hours skiing straight top to bottom ski runs - need to get those legs in shape for spring bumps!
  4. just back from shoveling 2" of heavy, compacted sleet snow. 32 at both the local school and KBED. Temperature stood steady all night. Light snow currently in 01742.
  5. Good choice. Great mountain especially when they have natural snow and although I haven't been there in years, Killington sucks everyone away and I can't think of when I've really had to wait in line there.
  6. KBED reporting 35. The local school says 37 but snowing lightly in the 01742.
  7. all the doom/gloom on the other threads made me look at the saddleback and SLoaf webcams snow top and bottom at bottom places...
  8. 2nd day at BEast on my IndyPass. Sun was partially out in the morning - mid-40s when I left at 1:30pm. They had made snow the last couple of nights trying to recover. Folks said the crowds were the smallest of the season. I really like that mountain and I've never really been there when you could ski in the woods!
  9. Anyone following the last man standing event at ski the whites, once again crazy
  10. Kind of shocked to see that much snow in your pictures honestly.
  11. Went pond skating, the thickness is fine but the surface got too soft in the sun during the hour I was there... fear that may be it, the sum total of my outdoor skating this winter - 1 hour!
  12. Got a new pair of skates XMAS '80 and walked up to the local pond just south of Boston to try them out that afternoon - didn't last long. Plan to lace the same pair up later this PM at one of the local ponds in metrowest that looked safe this AM on inspection when things warm up a bit!
  13. top of saddleback now at -35. https://www.weatherlink.com/embeddablePage/show/9a49cc37130f4a1cbf0064d9a3933113/summary
  14. woke up at 230 and checked the local school weather station, 30, took the dog out for his walk a bit before 7, 21, currently 18 in concord ma
  15. go snowshoeing or xc skiing and stick to the woods - that's my plan on Saturday. You will expend so much energy, you won't get cold. Dress in layers so you can shed but wear an outer layer that blocks the wind.
  16. I had planned to head up and take a few runs on the sherburne this am and then ski at Black in PM but just didn't have the energy this morning. Just looked at the webcam at Wildcat - heavy snow - regretting my decision! Snowing hard at SLoaf too.
  17. skied Berkshire East yesterday, beautiful day. Short lines but the main chair was always full. Skied the single lines so never waited more than 3-4 minutes between runs and skied top to bottom so got a lot of vertical. Conditions were really good - not enough snow to have woods open. The warmth - around 40 - and sun softened things up. I like this place the more I go...a once a year person.
  18. was talking to a friend about the conditions at SLoaf and he was saying how he's been very satisfied with his ski season so far...temperatures have been warm with not a lot of wind. It reminded me of the '83-84 season - does anyone have the summary stats for Farmington or even the County for that year...would be interesting to see if it was warm but on the snowier side compared to the rest of NE that year.
  19. This morning around 6:30ish the temperature readings on mt. washington were all below freezing (in some cases barely) with exception of 4K which was at 39 degrees. Interestingly, Jackson ski touring ctr said 4" fell with a light mist after snow. I looked at the Wildcat site right after they posted their #s and the narrative where they also stated 14" was time marked today - threw me for a loop. Cannon only reported 2-4" while Waterville was reporting 6".
  20. Great day at Waterville Valley. They were making snow primarily over on the new mountain and pushing out big piles on the main hill. They haven't opened nor made snow on their steeper stuff yet - true grit Bobby's run. With that said the foot of snow really helped, was even was able to ski some natural trails on upper half of mountain. Better day than I expected - obviously ski on all day. New 6 person lift is nice. I like the tbar at the summit too.
  21. I was driving up rt. 3 in Merrimack this morning and called my brother-in-law who lives there but is down in Florida and said if they get snow, sleet, freezing rain and then rain watch out... All the white pines are already caked in snow and leaning and tilting with lots of limbs down.
  22. skinned up WaWa a couple of times this AM. Their policy is off the hill when they start loading the lifts which on weekends is 7:30, between feeding and walking the dog and drive time, that makes for an early morning! Anyway, it was great to have snow on the trees and the natural snow mixed with the man-made base was nice. I pulled out of the parking lot at 7:34 and the cars were backed up from about a quarter mile on rt. 140 ... or a mile plus trying to get into the main parking lot!
  23. @powderfreakwould have to confirm but I think he always references 40" at the mansfield snowstake as his good-to-go indicator for skiing in the woods. IMO just not worth skiing in marginal conditions in the woods where you risk tearing up a knee or worse. and the mansfield stake was at 23" yesterday. As observed, western Maine seems to have been able to retain and add to their snow depths this season relative to the rest of New England
  24. Saddleback is reporting 100% open! Assume this is the first NE area to do so this season. And, SLoaf has opened Brackett Basin which is kind of crazy. Folks on social media say that they are done a lot of work which I interpret as cleaning out a lot of the undergrowth.
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