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Slides are open!

Totally. Would be nice to get a monster storm to cap things off! 16-17 had Stella, which at Sugarbush gave us 42" in about 48 hours on the heels of that huge late Feb thaw.

What sets it apart is the lack of thaws and consistency in the snow surface. But yeah, no massive 30"+ synoptic + upslope type storms.

Had a friend ski there today and called it his best day of the year.

How much before the flip, Gene? Have some friends skiing Cardigan tomorrow so would love to give them a report.

Yeah. Josh seems to be hitting backside snows hard. But yeah would need 12"+ to get anywhere near 30" lol. Western wind direction also not as ideal for down in the MRV. Need more NW so I'm a bit perplexed.

Bush cams showing almost 4" already. This is what's needed for Josh Fox's 15-30" range to verify

Crusty?

Sweet! I'll be there this weekend. Excited for my annual big Jay lap. Hopefully the pow stayed fresh.

Super interesting and thnx for the explanation!

Ripping and reading the models shows a vast majority going thump to dry slot to upslope in northern VT with any zr staying Killington or south and temps in the mid to high 20s. Most forecasts however show at least a short period of zr all the way up to Jay. I'm no met so would love to understand what I'm missing here.

You have any thoughts on the Thursday deal? Would be really nice to avoid laying down a crust layer...

Pico is so good! The terrain off of Outpost and little Pico is very underrated. And yeah that Poma line is spicy!

Huge staffing issues in lift maintenance and general lift issues are pushing slidebrook to the end of the priority queue unfortunately. There was a blog post on their website about it somewhat recently. Re: Castlerock, they usually keep it hike-to for a bit to preserve the conditions early season since those are super boney and narrow trails that get scraped down pretty quick. I agree though, there is definitely more than enough snow now to open it for MLK so if that doesn't happen, you'd have to think there is another maintenance issue we don't know about. Personally I hope they keep it hike-to only. It's a quick fun trek and the snow stays soooo nice even on busy weekends.

I should start wishing for snow more often. You're welcome!

Yeah the fact that you can see that thing from a webcam mounted on the single chair mid station makes me think that it isn't super wind protected lol.

MLK once again shaping up to be the winner of the ski holidays.

User name checks out.

Mad River was a tale of two aspects today. The woods off of the double housed about a foot of blower while the single was wind hammered to hell, though still skied fairly well. Super fun day overall!

These are basically the new version of the Soul 7, which in the mid 2010s was probably the most popular ski out there and maybe Rossi's best selling model in North America ever? The sender series is slightly more robust from what I hear, while still retaining that approachability that made the original Soul so popular. 102 under foot is about where you want to be for a one ski quiver in northern VT.

Looking at radar returns and the flow still looks quite blocked. Will be at MRG tomorrow to sample whatever blew into the woods.

Also, how accurate are the NWS snowfall analyses? There's an image being passed around social media that seems to indicate another local jack of 24"+ in the Brandon Gap area. Hard to substantiate via cocorahs but there's a Randolph report of 15" in that timeframe so perhaps it's possible? Jw how they came to that conclusion...

Haha Domeys Dome. Always loved that name. For what it's worth I have a friend who skied Little Jay today and reported that "No it was at least 24". Great skiing. Actually a somewhat reasonable report for Jay". Depending on the aspect both reports could be true? Domeys faces WNW and could have been a bit more subject to wind scouring too. Hard to say.

Honest to Cthulhu moderate snow at times is Cambridgeport. Nice to see! Now get it up to ski country where it belongs

And just like that, Sugarbush goes from severely lagging behind to the most open trails in the East. Mountain operations is a funny thing.