This. Steady snow all day, 3.5" on grass. Lift is quite low, and even when the radar looked like it's done the sky has argued otherwise. And there has been some back building and redevelopment of moderate snow as well.
Nice. I've skated there before.
Nearby Lake Fairlee has a great hockey crew as well. My cousin resurfaces it daily with a big pump and they have heavy equipment to clear snow. It's serious business up there.
skating is off the hook all over the valley right now. A- black ice 6"+. Stiff winds has it a bit choppy here and there but totally smooth other places.
Most of my friends in DFW would beg to disagree. They were stoked on the snow. Neighborhood kids having snowball fights and making snowmen. 4"+ north and west of Ft Worth into Denton county especially.
Periodically dumping at Magic today. Not much base and firm and lumpy underneath but the light snow skied in well and could pretty much rip on the low angle natural without much hesitation by 11 or so.
Yeah we lucked out with the fake effect today. You can see how some of these places in NYS pile up huge totals but can't retain them. That said maybe ours sticks around a bit now with the low sun angle and cold temps. Even as some sublimates.
The Octobomb (2011) I think you might well have got 30" up there. Not sure if you pulled it off in December 92 as well? The valley floor sure didn't haha. They hardly got anything.
Feb 13, great storm, was 2' for a lot of the valley. Maybe 25" for some but uniform.
Jan 15 was like 8" of arctic sand... less just west in the valley.
Jan 22 was 6", more baking powder
Aside from Jan 2011 in a few favored spots, I don't know if this area has ever had a 30" storm. Maybe 1888. Seems like a once in a hundred year type of event.