Angus

Skied Pat's Peak Saturday and Bromley Sunday, a couple of observations...not sure about the before but after last Thursday's rainstorm... there is very little natural snow in soVT. Between the resiliency of man-made snow, ability to turn guns on and modern grooming equipment/techniques; these ski areas can get a hill back into shape within 24 hours of temperatures falling below freezing after a deluge. The skiing wasn't great, and on a few occasions I was just skidding across boilerplate on steeper terrain but it wasn't bad...flip side is the skiing business in NE is capital intensive.

total speculation (but that's what we like to do!) but suspect this means less snowmaking late season - I don't know the structure of these electrical contracts from the perspective the generator guaranteeing some amount of electricity back into the grid versus what they consume from the grid, et cetera but would think if they need to buy from the grid on the spot market(??) they are going to curtail any unnecessary consumption - assume they use electric pumps for snowmaking. the day I was up there over MLK weekend, the turbine was not spinning. I think I read that catamount has had snowmaking infrastructure problems this season. Plus securing that turbine so there is no risk to skiers is surely going to be a big undertaking. running a ski area is like being a farmer!

I have my niece's 11 year old flying up from DC on Friday night. It was going to be an introduction to western Maine ski weekend with a visit to Saddleback and Sugarloaf - was looking forward to taking him top of Gondi Line and watching his knees shake! Now planning on skiing Pat's Peak in Henniker and Bromley in SoVT - they are forecast to get less rain and will recover quicker. Oh well, I'm onto March!

say about 2 maybe 3" here in Concord MA. Light snow falling at the moment.

woke up early this AM and drove up to WV and hiked Welch Dickey and then drove up to the ski area and found a spot in the first parking spot. Getting out of my car, I spotted a woman walking down from the hill and asked her how the mountain was skiing. Her response was 'a sheet of ice.' She'd taken one run and decided she was done - season passholder she said who'd been skiing since Thursday. I got back in my car and went down to the lake house and spent a couple of hours walking on the lake. Should have been smart and brought the xc gear.

Skied those trees with my lower intermediate nephew and perfect for that age/skiing ability. Say what you want about BW but they know what their customers want in their ski experience and do a great job delivering. Looked like fun.

had a great day skate skiing in Carlisle today - this whole area has 4" of frozen cement with a dusting on top - great surface for skate skiing. Hoping this weather system doesn't mess it up. I'm playing catch up with my xc skiing.

I have skied at BW on days like today and mountain in places doesn't have enough pitch to push your way through the ungroomed snow. I notice Sugarloaf opened Bracket Basin and Saddleback is 100% open which means they are now between 3-4' of snow depth finally.

He is correct. Skied both too. Was just discussing wanting to get back to Taos.

You ski wildcat in Dec, Jan and Feb to get in shape to enjoy it in March and April. Sugarloaf is the same way. Sitting at SLC airport after 5 hours of skiing today at Powder Mountain. Ten days straight, 7 on the Indy Pass. Skied ID, MT, WY and UT. Frankly the "little guys" won out over the big guys on this trip, great days at Brundage, Missoula Snow Bowl, Lost Trail and Beaver.

Wildcat on Sunday will be a mad house I'm betting if folks in Mass can get out there house and Wildcat gets reasonable amount of snow. @J.Spinskied Lost Trail today - wow, outstanding. Lapped chair 4 all morning. Between that, chutes off chair 1 and Hollywood Bowl area - just tremendous terrain.

I never ski on that side but I'm pretty sure adjacent/parallel to the cog rails is a primary route up for skinners/ski touring seeking access to the upper snowfields on the west side of mt.washington.

this is the week which marks my first visit to Sugarloaf 40 years ago in what I believe was and remains record cold day time highs. Maybe 6 runs with severe frostbite on my face after each run which required going into the lodge to 'warm up'...stopped skiing until 83-84 season it was so horrible! The nice thing is that next Sunday at Jackson Hole, I will be skiing with my buddy who was with me that day.

My take on kids versus adults - setting aside weather, is adults are more particular about snow conditions b/c a) it hurts a lot more when they fall and bad outcomes like injury are more likely and b) many kids bear no cost relative to their equipment so they don't seem to mind skiing across rocks and stumps and ruining their bases. I hate skiing steep, tight NE glades without adequate snow because besides the normal obstacles, you are also trying to navigate around season ending stumps and lots of exposed rocks and ledge.

@GCWarriorI was impressed by the # of skiers skinning yesterday. Had a nice conversation with a guy on the summit about AT equipment while I ate my lunch.

I'm flying Saturday at the crack of dawn to Boise to begin a four state, 10 day ski vacation. I've got enough obstacles between not catching COVID between now and then and flight crew availability...can we role this threat to Sunday please.

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Just back from Berkshire East where I believe almost every NE Indy Pass holder was today due to black outs! I timed one lift line at 21 minutes. With that said, management posted signs that due to the long lines they were extending the day to 5pm! Very nice snowmaking effort. Nice variety of terrain open. No complaints really except my feet were cold! Haven't been there is some time and the mountain really has changed. Was on the lift a few minutes before 10 and finished my last run at 4:15 with a 15 minute lunch break at the summit. Beautiful day.

Get the wool blankets out on the lift. my uncle who knows cold from skiing at SLoaf has mentioned skiing at Stowe in early 70s maybe late 60s in brutal cold wrapped in a wool blanket on the old single chair.

A few years ago mentioned the tremendous skiing at Wildcat the weekend after that final big dump in April 07 but as they normally do late season they were closing mid-week. All the Wildcat skiing staff couldn't wait to close and drive to SLoaf to ski for the week.

I feel like this is piling on but friend with two young boys - under 10 - drove up to Sunapee on my recommendation saturday after asking crotched versus sunapee - they are epic passholders obviously. never made it to mountain - turned around due to traffic! This friend relocated to Jay last year with her two kids and had the mountain to themselves all season - spent a week at xmas this year at mt. snow which she said was not very good. https://unofficialnetworks.com/2022/01/10/mount-sunapee-traffic-jam/

Microspikes and poles for sure.

Nice day at cranmore yesterday. Icey and skied off by end of day but what they had open was good. Cranmore is a funny place, ignored it for all my life and have now skied there 3 times since 2017 on clear cold days and have enjoyed it very much. Views are top notch and there is some fun terrain with a snow pack Drove up to pinkham afterwards and hiked up the Tuckerman trail a distance and there were quite a few skiers coming down the Shelburne on a surface that was 1/2 snow and 1/2 grass and rocks.

About same in n. conway. Took a quick hike up to lower headwall yesterday afternoon. Snow flying, cold and windy but not much snow.

Think you are thinking of liftopia. I thought they had been shuttered but site is still up - most areas have moved away and offer discounts in advance on their site.