PhineasC

Going slow or getting hitches was not an issue. The snow was plenty fast at Cannon today, faster and firmer than BW. I just couldn't believe it was still icy at 70 degrees with the trails actively melting down around me. What on earth does it take for this place to not be icy? Many of the trails were being cut in half by active water flow down the center. The areas in the front of the lifts at the base were basically ponds, which is always kinda fun but it was just mud under the water in a lot of spots, not even slush. I don't see how they stay open after the rains this weekend.

Been pleasantly surprised here with the biting bugs. Everyone warned me about the black flies, but I don't think I had any last year, or if I did they were not bothersome at all and I never noticed them. I also didn't have too many issues with mosquitoes, nothing too irksome at least compared to anywhere else. The mosquitoes we did have were comically huge though -- like three times the size of a mosquito from MD. My property is very marshy in spots so I was expecting a lot of those bastards. We did have some huge hornets in May and June. Freaking fat assholes buzzing you all day and flying around the house. They seemed to die down by July. Also many large moths swarming every light. The bugs here are all super-sized, it seems, like a prehistoric land that time forgot.

The sugar house next to my property has been going full blast this week. I can see steam all day.

Sure glad I don't live there.

Are you saying your chickens take precedence over answering dumb questions from weenies? LOL

Think there is any chance of a blue bomb here with this one?

18z NAM has a bunch of freezing rain and sleet here for the second storm. I hope this verifies a little colder as blue bomb. Not expecting ZR here this late in the season at 31.5 degrees. That's not happening.

Ah, Cannon. Where you can have an actively-flowing stream in the middle of a main trail at 70 degrees... and somehow it is still icy all over the place. I skied at Cannon about 20 days this season and just never enjoyed the conditions all that much. It always feels like you are fighting the snow. Maybe it's just me, but I normally like firm and fast steep runs, which should be Cannon's strength. The spring conditions here are weird. Tons of active melt in the middle of trails, a layer of mashed potatoes, and sheet ice still underneath. Something is just wrong with the snow at this place.

If anyone believed the map on the left, they haven't been paying attention to the seasonal pattern.

CMC back to popping a decent secondary low again too. Maybe this will come back for NNE a bit. Edit: RGEM also looks good, albeit at 84 hours so basically trash. Is a 997 tracking over RI a good snow track here? LOL

NAM looks really close to being a rate-driven wet snow bomb here for next week.

Well yeah when it’s 30 feet deep, of course. LOL

Not here yet, unless I missed it. There is a watch over in VT.

They must blow a ton of snow there. I am not familiar with that mountain at all. I can't envision people still riding lifts and enjoying bumps in mid-May given the weather right now and upcoming, but it will be fun to watch it play out. A learning experience for me for sure.

I certainly understand it can rain here all winter, but sometimes I feel like I am living in a reality distortion chamber with you guys. LOL It has barely snowed at all in March after a below-average snowfall winter at the resorts, and this week has been a torch followed by 2 big rainers. That seems like a recipe for early closures to me. I am curious to see how far some of these places can go at this rate. I know Wildcat loudly announced they will be open until 18 April. That seems like an awfully bold claim given they already had many bare spots in February... I guess a single slushy stripe down a main run counts as "open."

I was planning on being finished with skiing next week (headed to Florida for a while), so I am good irrespective of what happens weather wise. I was just finding it a little optimistic to be talking about regular skiing well into May given the well below average March snow and recent warmth. But I realize now you guys are talking mostly about skiing down a stripe of shrinking manmade after skinning up and not really a resort being open for regular business. I have never skied Killington, but their method sounds like more of a publicity stunt than anything.

Probably will get some flood watches here for the second storm on Sunday.

OK, never skied in April in the East so I guess I will just need to see it to believe it.

I guess they have blown a shit ton of manmade snow on a couple of key runs to stretch that far?

Yeah, it kinda sucks. I am having a hard time imagining any ski places having runs until May at this rate, but we’ll see. The snow is rapidly melting down now and some big rains coming.

I know the gurus keep saying to “trust climo” but how will the ski places survive these back to back warm cutters?

I have always worked out at home. I have enough equipment myself. Was just making an observation.

Not a good deal for midweek skiing from NH, which is what we do.

Oh yeah, that's a good one. I also love the Birds of Prey runs. Skiing an Olympic-class downhill course at high speed was one of my favorite skiing moments.

Why do you still bother? LOL Time to just withdraw and let these people stew in their juices.