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Jay was jay this afternoon. So many fewer skiers, the snow was in great shape by afternoon. Tonight looks like it may over perform and they have to be close to being able to open up some glades up top. It def looked skiable. Some of the the upper half of Mansfield looked close to me if we add another 8 or so tonight. Shame about Thursday because today could have made some real progress.

It is puking snow up here now. Probably about 4” down so far. If it keeps up like this until midnight, should bust high and be great turns tnrw morning.

Tnrw could be good, but thurs is a disaster. Maybe better by New Years?

Visiting the kingdom of @powderfreak...starting to snow pretty decent here.

Steady, very light snow so far. About a half inch down.

Stopped at Mt. Snow on the way up today to grab some of last weeks storm. Solid day. The natural trails were soft and skiing well, but getting thin. They probably have another day left and then are done. My favorite trail jaws was one of the best there; soft manageable bumps right down the fall line. Couldn’t get to the woods off Olympic, but off pdf there were still some decent stashes. Busy day..prob about 15 minutes consistently at the bluebird. Stowe tnrw morning and some laps here at Jay in the afternoon. Jay needs snow bad. This is such a great place but the border, quarantine and lack of snow really has to be destroying them. Hoping the grinch storm delivers up here.

Decent 6-8 hours of upslope for the northern greens tnrw? Ground is bare up here until about 1500’ and even up at 1900 there’s prob only 3 or 4.

A Christmas miracle? Gfs has it snowing hard up here before midnight on Christmas Eve. Would be nice to see more than one run of more than one model but it’s a start.

Gfs seems to like a little upslope action tues/weds, though nam seems less excited. Don’t think it will he enough to make a difference up at jay. Much less terrain open than this time last year, though it really didn’t get good until after the new year. Maybe we get this monsoon out of the way and get started on some decent pack. I’m heading back up Monday and may stop at mt. Snow just to get some decent terrain. I know it will come up here, but man, we need it.

That belongs hanging on a wall somewhere..great shot.

Was there today..epic requires reservations and can’t get one for next 3 days. They are going to get smoked. Blowing a ton of snow this morning, even with everything on the way.

10-20 likely in my northern Jersey home has my focus there these last few days. Those storms are hard to come by down here. I'm hoping the bread and butter starts up next week when I get back. Its crazy that I might find more powder and open terrain this week in the Poconos, than the greens. I'll throw some pictures up Thurs if this thing materializes. Our time is coming up North tho. I still think we get something around Christmas to get things going.

My NJ home is literally right below the 37.7. I was going to head back up mid-week, but this storm will def delay that. As you know, the hills of Morris County could do quite well in this set-up. That area generally averages significantly higher than NYC metro. With about 500 feet of elevation, a lot of slushy inch or two storms in NYC or more like advisory storms here. Half of that number (the more likely scenario) would be big for this area. In the awful winter of 2015-2016, we had that one storm that pulled about 30" and prior to that, 2003 or 96 are the last time we went over two feet here. It can happen, but its rare. I wouldn't say panic, but anytime there is a foot of snow forecast, you can bet the senior citizens will be packing the supermarkets and buying Milk and Eggs, as if thats the only food you need too survive. This storm looks good here so far. Its rare to have such model agreement this far out down here; but I'm also hoping for the Christmas time frame to get something going up north. Northern Green ski areas need a good one by now to get things going. If I could pull off this down here, it could make for a great start to winter, as I''ll be back up north from next week through all of Jan, when we should be rolling in NNE.

I think my daughter was 3 1/2 working on her form there. Mom snowboards, so she wanted nothing to do with skis.

And that’s how kids learn to ski before they can walk straight. You’ve got a powder day partner for life right there.

Good stuff.

Quick question..As a sugarbush alumni, have you ever witnessed a day where upper FIS was not the iciest trail in New England? Had some of my scariest moments on skis on that trail. Love sugarbush tho.

Wow; my sarcastic jay measuring comment stirred some awesome data dialog. Being up there I can definitely say Jay cleans up. I’m not knowledgeable enough to back this up, but it just seems like that mountain position does a better job of wringing out the moisture. The snow just seems to linger forever and add up. As far as their reporting, they seem to be much more broad with their numbers and use ranges like “half a foot of powder landed” and even 6-8, as opposed to Killington who puts out 8”. If they use the higher number always for their running total, I could see it being skewed high, but honestly, it’s probably close and if they really took accurate measurements up on that ridge, they get every bit of it. That glade off the tram gets crazy deep. I’m obviously biased, but jay is just a different animal. You can’t compare the powder in their woods to anywhere. North glade and andres will hold it for days. It’s funny, I saw the Killington number the other day and was surprised, but didn’t see any of the cams or put together how off it was. Numbers really don’t tell the story for each mountain tho. I can find something I like best about each of them. I don’t go to mt. Snow for powder; but I still love the north face. And castle rock at sb just reminds me of exactly what you picture New England skiing as. And Stowe, well, it doesn’t get much better than lapping the four runner on a powder day. I can find something unique I love at most of them from south to north. I just think day in and day out for consistency tho, the northern greens are going to give you the most reliable conditions in the heart of winter.

With Killington doing the math on the vert and Jay peak doing the snow measurements. it would be quite a place..

Gfs showing the upslope late week up here so I guess that’s a good sign if a global is picking up on it.

Lol at wife measuring the snow... I’ll ask my wife when I’m back in jersey and she’s still up at jay and I’ll get “you’re such a tool”...then she’ll send me this half ass measurement from the sidewalk and I’ll ask her if she can try a better spot.

100 percent..but you know how it is early season when you are just watching for something big to get some major terrain expansion going. Last year being cut short in mid March makes me really itch for some of my favorite runs. We probably had 6-7 weeks of the season left if there were no prolonged torches..but point taken; if it’s mid Jan and I’m worrying about snow, we are all probably in a world of sh*t snow season wise.

Yeah, inch for inch I would guess we are about normal. Maybe someone has the data, but there have been plenty of days with snow in the air. The 10 days leading up to thanksgiving were pretty solid, but it all washed away that Wednesday and the biggest single total was probably that early upslope event that was just too early in the season. We have “cover” now, but I wouldn’t call it a pack. I’m not worried, but do have to admit that I would like to get a solid event out of the way to start building the pack and get some help getting terrain open. Jay just doesn’t have the fire power to blow their way to a big terrain expansion. And those cutters in the long range make me nervous of losing anything we might start. We need one of those to break for up here. Once to January, above normal temps are fine because the averages are so low, as long as we don’t get dews in the 40s with rain and fog. So I guess not nervous or complaining, but maybe anxious.

Still waiting for that this year...need a solid event to get things rolling. I need to start getting the Phin anxiety. It just got him a foot and a half.

Sloppy Snow here at 1900’.