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Yep peas at the house

Yep. Gorgeous out there

Best lawns ever

Skied Wawa today for a couple hours. Still lots of snow for the most part. Big piles of LSGR. Also pretty big crowds, but I'm happy for them making money.

We skied Bear, the South Ridge, and even made a pleasant run down Great Eastern to the skyship base and did Valley Plunge for the first time ever. Sun was strong and crowds were basically nil. Snow on south faces softened up. Pretty much a winner.

Buttery goodness

Only like 2-3 new at Magic but after some human groomin to bust up a crusty layer with soft snow underneath, the sun started poking out and it got really good. Some of the steepest lines on the hill are open and skiing great, the top of Magician, Black Line, Goniff. Powder turns on the edges sheltered from the -dz, packed powder elsewhere. 20k vert for $29 throwback thursday, can't beat that.

Has been a pretty good AMS, one of the better ones IMO. Trillium on the waterfront nearly ran out of beer on Sunday and Monday. Bartender said it had been insane and asked what all the lanyards were for.

I figured that would be the case but couldn't swing it today. Awesome

I would think Saturday could be pleasant, esp SNE/CNE.

more than a half inch so far, moderate snow now. Upstream radar looks like it will continue for a little while.

Depends on what you want, obv. Lattitude in West Springfield is good. Punjabi Tadka downtown if you like Indian. Typical Sicilian is decent (read, not great) Italian. Personally I'd drive a bit further north and go to Coco in Easthampton.

These things are frickin huge and its hard to schedule your day with so much going on at once in so many fields and in so many rooms. All the same I'm hoping it should be a pretty good one. But program aside, the exhibitor hall is always worth walking around and talking to industry folks. Great way to make connections.

Anyone going to the 100th anny AMS conference in Boston week after next?

Berkshire East was exceptionally pleasant, April-esque, sweet cord softening as we go, sunny and beautiful. Lovely day to be outside in the snow.

Same at Berkshire east. Winter cord and PP. Nothing scratchy. Many natural trails officially open and well covered. Quality skiing.

34/24 and OVC all day. Not too drippy.

The Beast can be as open as they want to be. Heck of a way to start the season. Meaty powder, and now here comes the light stuff.

got reports that Ragged was really nice today and almost springlike. Also that SR was very busy and got bumped up quick on trail... Which some mind more than others.

One year ago today... Almost unfathomable for Novie

That's a fantastic job by them getting that much top to bottom open already. Beautiful day for skiing too.

To take nothing away from Castlerock but I also will usually keep to Mt. Ellen on a powder day. I do feel that Sugarbush shortchanges operations there however, and I became quite frustrated at them last year. Never runs the Inverness Chair... Makes very little effort to get anything open if there is any kind of wind delay, even as it subsides... Seems to let the North Ridge chair go down and stay down for extended periods, even though mid mountain is virtually unskiable if you have to do the runout every time. I hope things improve over there because the terrain is outstanding and there are pockets of untouched super deep snow to be found days after most other things are tracked out. It's a gem.

Yep I was there the 23rd making powder turns on Goniff.... And that was before the 30" that fell a few days later. Best start to the season ever, an all timer in the books in met fall. The first day of met winter wasn't shabby either

What a beastly little storm.

thunderstorm complex held together better than expected this morning and dropped a fair amount of precip across the metroplex, particularly east of Dallas (Garland/Mesquite) where they're pushing 2-3". Parts of Ft Worth did ok too, and along the I35E corridor.