GCWarrior

Even in a low snow winter there are turns to be had in the high places of New England into late April and May. I managed to skin and ski continuous snow top to bottom at Wildcat May 1st, 2016. I just threw up in my mouth thinking about that "winter."

Killington mid may on a Friday or Monday is pretty awesome. Big soft bumps and limited crowds usually. Saturday and Sunday I'd bet is a little crazy.

Off skiing this weekend elsewhere but keeping my eye on next weekend down here. I think if Berkshire East can survive the heat today and rain sunday they may be able to move some snow around late next week and have one last hurrah 4/3 and 4/4. The base is pretty strong down low and they blew lots of snow up on the hill so we shall see. Cold nightly temps late next week would allow them to groom. Been a good ride down here on mostly manmade snow this month.

If I could ski midweek besides the home hill I’d be all over any Epic pass. I’m only about 50 mins from Mount Snow. But Mount Snow doesn’t really excite me on weekends. Stratton I’m not sure is better but I grew up skiing Stratton so I may get there a few times. K/Pico is always nice given Ks early and late season offerings. Pico is never crowded mid season. I’m also looking to head to Utah next season so Ikon is tempting me more.

The next couple days and sunday night are really going to rot out the base of the hill at berkshire east. They should be prepared for this. In seasons past the base of the hill losing snow rapidly is always why they shut it down. Always plenty of snow up on the hill. I hope the snowmaking efforts down low last week help to keep them going the first weekend of April.

I'm factoring in the decent skiing in Feb into my grade so I'll go with a C+, things could have been a lot better though. But I can't even remember the last time we had snow. I will say February was the best winter month we have had since March 2018. But pull out February, last week of Jan and 6 days in December.... the rest of winter smells like a big stinky rat!

Yes last week was rough. Ski patrol and management are pretty shaken up right now.

Berkshire East was pretty sweet yesterday. Natural is still holding on pretty good in places. Likely after today there will not be much left. I just went out for lunch and it feels hot with the increasing dews!

Is heavy late season snow part of the climo in the front range or is it a more recent thing? I feel like the last few years the front range ski areas have been crushed mid march deep into april.

Wish I could ski today. Damn work! Pretty awesome outside today. Tomorrow were skiing at 3 and then grilling dinner in the lot! Great stuff! Maybe one last dip into the woods here this season for me.

Guns firing up at Berkshire East, Catamount and Bousquet according to facebook. Great stuff. Daily operations at Berkshire east through 3/28 I'd assume unless we really get some major rain, high dews and warmth.

We have had a 5"+ event 3/15 or later 6 of the last 10 seasons if my memory serves me. 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020.

Made it up to Berkshire east today after work. Things were still a bit firm but it skied pretty well. Woods were super fun but getting pretty thin in places. Natural snow always skis so much better than the manmade!

Woodford did well per usual.... 17" i think up there.

Looking forward to making turns after work next week. Euro depiction Tuesday- Thursday is spring corn harvest perfection! Cold at night, 40's-50's, full sun and low dews. If it's not going to snow bring on the spring skiing.

Looking forward to the tee and ski season. I managed to get out in early June last year for some laps up on Mount Washington on a saturday, out on my friends boat saturday night and golf down in Bellingham, MA sunday afternoon! Hope I can get out and do it again this spring.

Lol! Been a few memorable storms in this time frame over the last 15 years or so.

Not loving the that lobe of cold over us over the weekend while the heart of the county is heating up!

Not liking the look of the overnight lows this coming weekend here. 15 degrees! Yikes! Tough to get the snow to corn up off those lows.

I tend to grade on the overall feel of the winter. I"ll weight the bad parts vs the good parts and decide which stood out more and grade from there. I'm at a B- right now here just based off of the last several weeks of cold and sustained snowpack. If we get a big bomb in march or the spring skiing is off the hook then I'm very willing to forget losing a insane amount of snow in one day on Christmas.

Second time that storm has been mentioned this winter!

pretty jealous looking at the radar up there! Nice event for the NNE Mountains

Canadian seems the opposite of the new GFS and last nights euro.

I wish I could figure out how to post pictures from my phone on here. I have a lot of berkshire east shots from this winter. Anyhow.... I would think berkshire east attempts to keep skiing through March. I don't have any insider information on it but in years past they have opened for one weekend in April. The natural may be gone by end of next week but the manmade will stick around for a long time. I made turns on Comp in early May 2015 and again in 2018. Barring any major warm spells I'd think the will close with a decent amount of terrain still skiable as they have buried the mountain in snow since the temps dropped mid Jan. They transition rapidly from skis to bikes, quicker than from bikes to ski. I have never seen the ski area as busy as it has been this year. I was up there dropping my son off yesterday and was surprised how busy it was mid week, mid day after school vacation week. I doubt people stop showing up especially if were harvesting spring corn most of March.

Not enough cold around? Last nights Euro starts off as a lot of rain for all of new england but brings some decent snow to NNE at the end.