HIPPYVALLEY

Just looking back and seeing that this week five years ago (2018)had a pretty impressive cold shot. Delayed opening at schools due to wind chill.

I mean at this point I'm not even feeling a vibe that winter wants to get going in SNE. We moved to Greenfield in 2007 and this is the least amount of total snow to date that I have experienced. Obviously the 14" in Oct 2011 skewed that a bit.

Well, we do need an E Canadian region cold source.

I don't generally talk about personal stuff on AmWx but I love and miss contributing to the ski forum. In March 2021, I was at Berkshire East and my kid ran into me, getting off the quad and tore my ACL. I knew at the time, something was ripped and assumed ACL. I got the full mountain rescue sled ride down. It took about a week to get an MRI and my ACL assessment was correct but I also had hairline fractured my femur and tibia. Since I had already walked around on them for a week, the orthopedist said there was nothing else to do but use crutches, start PT at that point and go talk to a sports surgeon. The orthopedic surgeon basically talked me out of ACL replacement because of all the complications that nobody likes to discuss. That's a story for another post. The long and short of it is that I have barely done anything on skis since March of 2021. There is a brace I am getting fitted for that will allow me to ski but certainly not woods or moguls. I am just looking forward to getting back out on the slopes with my kid at the end of the month or early February. I would have been back out sooner but I decided I was not diligent enough with certain rehab exercises and wanted to get fitted for the right brace. Anyway, that's my story and I am determined to get back on the slopes this year, even if I am just doing Green trails.

The Schaefer family keeps that mountain going no matter how much the weather doesn't cooperate. It's our local mountain and I am looking forward to getting back on the slopes this year!

It would be pretty sweet if KHSE could 5x Boston’s snowfall to date, in January.

It would be nice to get at least some nickel and dime storms rolling in an active pattern.

Break the spirit of the weather weenies and you can dominate!

Destructive interference.

What a brutal day. Moderate rain and temperatures in the upper 30s.

My FB "memories" feed has been torturing me with snow pictures. LOL

Ha, MMA foolishness aside, it's not really a sport.

I'd be in the ER from any type of hit on a professional football field. Honestly, I am surprised there are not more incidences of organ failure.

In my younger days I hung with a few high skill Chinese Kung Fu guys and they would discuss how palm strikes, as opposed to a more precise straight punch, were the ideal chest blows. Had the best chance of disrupting the heart beat, supposedly.

It's definitely a match up that matters wrt standings and playoffs so this will be interesting.

I agree 100% but the cynic in me says, it is the NFL, so I am surprised they are calling it.

30F CAD set up. Roads will be fine but trees etc. will look pretty!

Let’s see how things look overnight and in the morning. Even a few hour front end thump with 2-4” would have me ecstatic at this point.

Friday definitely has a shot for some frozen precipitation, especially over the interior, the problem is it looks like a weak sauce system, so no real dynamics going for it.

I took this about two hours ago. This is the view from Shelburne looking towards Mt Monadnock. Those are some bare hills for early January. I was at around 1000’ when I took this.

If it’s icy, people need to have enough sense when they should go out drive and when they shouldn’t. We are society that puts “getting to work” ahead of everything. It’s bizarre.

I know, not only is it bare ground and no great snow prospects but we don’t even get any nice days out of it. I know some of you had some nice weather last week but the valley has been dreadful. Just warm enough to wreck the pond ice too.

But the guests haven’t even arrived yet.

I would take it further and say any accumulating snow would be welcome.

I agree with you on not liking sub optimal ski conditions. Especially when you don’t get out on too many ski vacations. However, I will say that, an “OK day” outside, especially on a mountain, is better than almost any day inside. I think that’s what PF was alluding to.