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I’m in.

There’s about 4 at the top today...quietly, a great day out there after the refresh. And jay being jay this year, you can find trails still barely touched an hour after the lifts started spinning.

Wouldn’t surprise me.

Yeah, my bad. I didn’t realize that, but he confirmed what I suspected anyway. Just out of curiosity, is there anyone from BTV here?

Yep, you’re right.

I noticed that when the local discussions in marginal events when they talk about accumulations, they generally undershoot snow totals up here. Even when they mention higher elevation totals, it’s generally a little less than we get. I think yesterday, it only mentioned up to an inch. I’m assuming that jay is so unique in its micro-climate that you are more forecasting for the general geographic area and not something so specific and unique like a ski area town. Am my completely off?

For the record, I’m completely cool with all snow here. No need to mention rain.

Decent burst came through about 3am. Finished with just shy of 3”. It’s a start.

Hmmm...I could see some glades opening up with that. It certainly beats the “0” inches the last seven days.

If it’s not going to be dumping snow, it really doesn’t get much better than today. Mid teens, bright sunshine and no wind.

I sound like a broken record, but honestly, it’s so close. There are some glades open and the natural stuff is very thin, but there’s a base. If we could pull like 8-12, it would be a whole different mountain. They could literally go from 30 or so trails to probably 70. You would think a foot at jay would be easy, but it’s like pulling teeth. The saving grace is there hasn’t been any washouts but I bet it’s been several years since the trail count was this low going into the second week of Jan. If some of the upslope comes through this week and the late week disturbance holds together, it may a solid weekend. But wow am I (and I’m sure a few others) getting impatient.

Ski patrol at jay helping sum things up with graphics. The sign pretty much says it all. The mountain needs to eat. Great natural trail; hanging on by a thread today.

Verbatim, the gfs has non-stop daily snow everyday starting Tuesday for about a week. I guess that would be how the northern greens get it done while everyone else sits and waits. 2-3 a day for a week with a little more Friday and no crazy wind or arctic would be just fine with me. I guess we can hope.

6-12 more on the ground would make such a difference at the ski resorts up here. That little bit is the difference between glades and no glades right now. It does appear that lots of upslope opportunities will be showing up once through mid next week.

How are the trails holding up at the top there? The little bits we’ve gotten and cold temps have helped here, but we could use a refresh. Having some natural snow mixed in has at least prevented it from turning into that worn, ground up ice. I bet southern vt. snow is a bit more beat right now. Want to try and get over to your spot next week.

Jay didn’t get your memo on the more energy efficient guns today. Really great stuff. Awesome learning the ins and outs of a ski resort. If I could do it all over, would have found a job at a resort or maybe pick up something part time in retirement. I’m guessing the temps lower temps at jay have helped keep them blasting over some of the other resorts. Might also be that in some years, there wasn’t such a need with more natural. Also maybe a good year to market the capability of the system and ability to keep drawing visitors with the thought once we return to a post covid world soon, the potential buyers for the resort will return. Apparently, the sale was pretty close before covid.

Looks awesome..conditions were much better the last few days. It’s getting close up here. If the upslope had panned out this week like it looked earlier, would have seen some serious terrain expansion. Hopefully, we get some surprises.

Something seems up with wildcat. They seem like they aren’t trying at all, even when they had natural snow and could have opened earlier...and now not blowing and so few trails. I will say that I don’t think that’s the case at jay and Stowe. Both seem to be blowing at every opportunity. Guns have been on non-stop all week at jay. They really don’t have tremendous fire power compared to a Stowe, snow or killington, but they have methodically been blowing the connections, beginner terrain and other important trails. It usually takes them about 3-4 days from start to trail opening, but def not holding back. Freezer should be opening in a few days and prob some natural terrain over there is close.

Finished with between 4-5”. Some light snow flying this morning, but nothing accumulating.

4 down give or take. Ive been just far enough north to stay in the good bands. Looks like a little Snow hole so far on radar just south toward Mansfield.

3k keeps precip going until late morning here. That mix line looks close tho...be interesting to see how far down this is still snow. If we hold on, should look good out there in the morning. Still coming down strong.

Solid rates now. 1.5 to 2” down so far. Much better ratios. Radar looks good.

Starting to come down heavier now...might be some pellets mixed in so doesn’t seem like ratios will be great. radar lighting up. 3k has close to a foot up here, but 6-8 sounds reasonable. It would make for a decent morning.

It’s been ok. The wind yesterday hurt the higher traffic areas, but yeah, at least snowmaking has saved it a little. Still need this weekend bro work out or it’s going to be a tough week. The snow is beat.

If you ski off the groomers, we share the same issue. We need a decent base put down. What do you guys need to get things reliable on the snow mobile trails? 12-18?