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GFS looking great for the clipper again

All we have is like 60% of our snow climo left!

Sounded like steady rain. I still have several big standing dead oaks shedding branches on the property over time. Awful.

Many all time records fell and several other 2nds and 3rds all time. Feb 1899 and Jan 1985 were really the two comparable cold spells, both with the core of the cold focused a bit further east. But it was insane this morning. New Iberia hit 2, Lafayette 4, Mobile 6, Gulfport/Biloxi 7

12" or hard pass applies even down there for some I guess

Destin Harbor The webcams are epicosity https://emeraldgrande.com/destin-harbor-cam-emerald-grande

Congrats Gulf of Maine as now the undisputed GOM.

Got a couple days in northern New Mexico over the weekend... Angel Fire and Taos. Both really cool spots. Very low tide for snow in general, but the conditions were still awesome, especially Taos. Most of the ridge was open with stashes of light powder, and chalky pp elsewhere made even the steepest stuff totally doable. At 12k+' the snow is so dry it's remarkable. Taos is also up there near or at the very top of the burliest mountains I've ever been too.... super steep terrain everywhere. Can't wait to get back when everything is game on. And oh yeah... no lines whatsoever on a holiday weekend.

Bluebird! Go go go

Also late... like almost nowcast time

Agree on Slide Brook. Was a dumb waste of money to begin with. Unnecessary as well. Rode it twice, once over, once back, just to say I did it. Wonder if they could use that to replace North Ridge?

you're probably right to ignore the mesos at this range, but worth noting the globals haven't exactly been inspiring confidence here either

It's not really that as far as I can tell. They just have had a really hard time with lifts and staffing. And the planning has been awful. Last year was a prime example. They shutdown HG and Castlerock before the late season 3 foot dump to prep for the new lift and said they had planned that for a year. Ok fine. But then they didn't keep Ellen open and said they couldn't just ask their staff to stay a few extra weeks... when they just told you they knew a year in advance that there would be no upper mountain anywhere! They basically never run Inverness. North Ridge was down on some of the biggest weekends of the year. GMX was down this year for a bit over Christmas. They don't let you skin Ellen even as snow rots on the hill. It's just super hateable how they operate since Alterra took over. But the terrain is very good to great, so there's that. If they'd sell off Glen Ellen to a benevolent wealthy family, I'd frickin love it.

I've been a longtime SB skier, but you just gotta shake your head these days. Even the Magic ops crew is like "what a sh*tshow up there" . It's an effing disgrace how they treat Ellen too. But yet I do go back for more. All that said, I do agree that the hike to Castlerock is fine and that line gets so long on busy days anyway it's probably faster to just go over from HG

Wow, that's awesome. Where? Unrelated but nice little squall moving in