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1 hour ago, CoastalWx said:

That's an interior ice event on the Canadian. Still time for a SWFE look in New England. 

Yea let's dodge New Year's without power and Chinese food. Approaching 50* high above and mid-low 20s at the surface. Damn. 

2 hours ago, weatherwiz said:

3km NAM actually has a decent surge of elevated instability and even hints at an embedded supercell potential  

Yea the 12z HRRR at the end hinted at that as well, especially across CT and up Hippy Valley. 

Meanwhile. I found some size 15 boots. Can you tell we have a toddler in the house? Just noticed the dog bowls in background.  Ordered December 7th, 2nd day air, finally arrived today. She can actually walk in them versus the smallest I could previously find in 16.5

3 hours ago, bwt3650 said:

Wildcat surprises me?  Don’t they have a fairly robust system and decent elevation?

They have an updated system, tons of water, and a base at 2000'. As I mentioned earlier, there were years they were running top-to-bottom before Sunday River and Killington in October/early November under Peaks.  I would bet there will be some condos for sale at both after this year and Cannon will have a big jump in season pass sales. Absolutely shame, aside from DJ's at Cannon, Wildcat has the best lift-served terrain in NH. 

1 hour ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

4-5’ whitecaps on the Quabbin? 

No one bothers heading out if its blowing 15mph straight from the north or south.  There are 4-5 footers with 25-30 mph. Christmas will probably look something like this.

What a difference a week makes. Replace weenie kuchera maps with weenie wind maps. 

18 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

I think VT, W MA and E NY will definitely have small stream flooding issues. 

Yea I would be worried about SVT and NY. Throw 2" of rain on feet of snow, streets will be flooded out. The Susquehanna around Binghamton and the West River of SVT will be in trouble. Luckily there should not be much ice up there yet. Deerfield, Westfield, and Housie should be pretty high as well. 

11 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

 

11 hours ago, Lava Rock said:

Was just thinking about Jay. Talk about north south flip flop in terms of snow depth. Does WaWa have more base then Jay?

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Right? They haven't even opened the Flyer or any woods this year. MRG has only had the Practice Slope open. No Castlerock at Sugarbush or Madonna at Smuggs. When is the last time that happened in a December? Wildcat is essentially one way down from the summit. They all typically get close to 100% open for a weekend or two before a melt-down at the end of the month. 

2" new. 20.25" for the season.

A nice 2". I wish we could get one of these winter mood deals a week. 

Afternoon football and evening skiing.

Very nice moderate snow. Feels like winter.

3 hours ago, GCWarrior said:

Beast did only have 7 trails open.  Everything else was “skiable.”  Best was the lower angle stuff.  Fat skis helped a lot too.  I did not ski lift line.  Jug was a blast. Honestly, Berkshire east is never fully game on, maybe once every few years for like three days. There is always rocks and stumps to hit in the woods.  

There is one stump towards skier's left on Jug that gets me and made me a Marker binding fan. Twice I smoked it, ski got stuck, and released. And that was on a front DIN of 11, lucky both times. I ski on the right side now lol. 

16 hours ago, KoalaBeer said:

Edit: I see I am very late to the party. 

Not sure if this was posted. Ragged is claiming 48” total. Still mind blown. I’ll be up there Monday. Trying to get my friend on ops crew to send me some more photos but he’s not much of a texter...I’ll bug him when we are taking laps together. 

 

They have been all over the place. First it was 2', then 3', then 4', then 30", then 38", now back to 4', depends which of their social media pages you look at. Either way, an awesome start. The 40+ at Okemo was too much for them. Lines were epically long with only 1 lift running most of Thursday, lots of pissed off pass holders and ticket buyers. 

1 hour ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Fa la la La la.. lalala la

 

 

Can see this being the most irritating grinch of all since it is 2020. Tomorrow some models start to shift east, give us a glimmer of saving snowpack and maybe add a little, then back to big winds and rain to take it all away 00z Tuesday.

35 minutes ago, radarman said:

LOL nice

.   And with not much officially open, we decided to pass.   

Is BEast trail report legit? I know you and many others mentioned skiing just about everything but this morning they had 7 trails open. They have always had that issue though lol

1 hour ago, dryslot said:

I blame Phin for bringing his mid altlantic crap north for christmas.

Can he be sent back before the grinch comes?

1 hour ago, radarman said:

The big zip lines are a little further ahead in that picture, but yes.  It's actually the Roundabout trail.   The woods on the right are all pretty darn good, but as you mention you have to walk/ski down the road to where you can cut back into the resort.  Later in the winter when there are some old snowbanks from plowing you can pretty often find a ski track on top to keep sliding rather than hoof it.

Got it, thanks.

Did you get to Catamount? Kind of curious about those new trails. I remember Off Stage being a pretty fun little bump run to finish off your legs.

Reminded me of these. I was probably 12 in these pics, was after a 2-3' dump in the early 2000s. Some amazing memories with @MBRI

Off Stage

In the process of sliding 100' down Catapult and ending at the old fence that was at the top of Catamount Chair. 

1 minute ago, dryslot said:

I'll take a #40 with a #37 side please.

No substitutions please. If you want spare ribs you must order the #37 as well. 

19 hours ago, radarman said:

Berkshire East was very busy, so we decided to forego the lift and skin up the Wilderness side , which was quiet and beautiful.  Perfect temps, no wind and light snow. But afterward we rode the lift a few times and found that the handful of groomers were chalky PP and really super good, somewhat to our surprise.

 

Is this the back past the zip lines? Did that once before. Was unaware of the walk back down E and East Hawley Rds. 

Got in the range today after reading the Thunderbolt Runner's FB page this morning. About 10-12" of coverage, did 2 laps down some intermediate open trees and once trip down a switchback fire road. Both are pretty rock and room/stump free. Forgot how hard it was trekking up in fresh. Been cold enough it is still super soft. If there are any Kinco's fans, their new "ski glove" is way too warm. I'll stick to my others until it's about -50 lol

Well schools might be out...

5 minutes ago, radarman said:

Wasn't really blower.  15-20+ at the Beast and every trail more or less fine.   We skied UMass, Grizzly, Jug, Liftline with nothing underneath with only very light damage.  I'm on 111 underfoot.  Granted, we weren't throwing weight into big turns... skinny down the fall line, keep em floating.  By noon it was skiing in well across the hill and we could be set up going forward. 

Oh that is fantastic to hear. Was bummed to see those reports from Greylock area. Might have to give it a go ASAP.

37 minutes ago, Angus said:

Cardigan is not far from where @dendrite is reporting. @wxeyeNH lives just east (15-20 miles??) of Cardigan. Just went to the AMC's Cardigan Lodge and they are closed and appear to be reporting nothing. Ragged is due south by 15-20?? and still snowing there heavily https://raggedmountainresort.com/Mountain-Cam/ 

Ragged has a weird uphill policy if I remember correctly. Like 8:30am-2:30pm.

10 minutes ago, MRVexpat said:

Yeah Thunderbolt was my original plan but have to figure somewhere north will be better. Ascutney or Cardigan will probably be good?

Crotched has a great uphill policy - or at least they used to. West Ledges probably are not ready but the stuff past Jupiter's and some of the old east trails are probably G2G. Easy skin up too.