GCWarrior

Mount Snow is a bit behind. They have one of the better snowmaking systems in New England though so I can see them catching up pretty quick. Going to be needed with Christmas on a Wednesday, all next week is going to be crazy! Personally lacking motivation for anything more than local turns. The holidays always have a way of taking my ski vibe away! After new years, bring on the nfl playoffs, more daylight and of course better skiing!

Berkshire East has the guns on and is opening for the weekend. Conditions won’t be nearly as good as this past weekend but it’s better than not skiing!

Nice start to the season for Mount Snow! Switched from fat to fatter skis Thursday to Friday. Made a smart choice!

Does Thursday not look like a similar setup early last year where ADKs and northern Greens had a few hours of rain then a decent backside snowfall? SVT, whites and Maine got all rain.

I’d like an inch or two it would really make the upcoming cold feel like real winter.

Tuesday seems like something to watch up north too, more upslope potential after that smaller event as well. I’m hoping someone is open on my epic pass next Wednesday. It’s time to ski!

Regardless of potential snow the next snowmaking window looks like a good one.

Walked the dog at 5:45pm yesterday, pitch dark and 70 degrees! Wild times! Maybe we can get things back to like +5 for a bit even. At least snow can be made up north and hopes can go up a little. GFS seems to be trending to towards more Novemberesk recently.

At this point might as well continue to be nice and warm. Mountain biking has been great! Semi fills the void of skiing!

Sunday River opening tomorrow for pass holders. Impressive. I was dumping sweat riding the bike today and people are skiing tomorrow. Unreal!

GFS is warm after that though. At least for a few days. I’ll take some more 70s please.

I’ll take these dry warm days for ever and ever! Winter will come at some point in the next 4-5 months. I will be missing this when it’s pouring rain and 34 mid January!

Love the Japan pics! On my bucket list as well. Love ski season! Can’t come soon enough! August was always when Skiing and Powder magazines showed up. Teenage me got so pumped! I have Epic northeast value pass, Indy pass, and my Berkshire summit employee pass. If I go west I may upgrade my epic or use Indy. I used my epic pass last season a whole lot more than I used my ikon pass several years ago. I’m only 45 mins to Mount snow so it makes more sense. Stratton doesn’t push the needle for the extra 20 min drive. Stowe is a bonus for me. Okemo is an ok early season option.

Killington was pretty fun this past Sunday. Walking required, but not bad. Chance of rain seemed to keep the crowds down. Skiing was fine with a few decent icy trough bump lines to be had. Met some pretty hardcore riders on the lift, one guy had skied 194 days this past season. Day 100 for me, I’m probably done. Good to end on a nice round number.

Still going…. Hit Stratton one last time this past Thursday to ensure the May turns. I will say the warmth and sun did a number on it from the previous Saturday but coverage was fine. A fair amount of walking had to be done though especially in the middle. Also blew the clip off my climbing skin so I had to boot pack the last 250 vert! 99 days and the season is ever so close to ending from a days perspective but from a season length perspective I’ve got two more months to go!