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Trend in almost all the glades was super scraped to rock at the top, with good snow as the crowds dispersed lower down in the glades. Definitely better than most things I’ve skied in the east this season though. Trails that skied well were UN, Kitzhubel, and Northwest Passage.

One of the coldest ski days of my life atop the flyer at Jay. Wind is ripping out of the north.

Just pulled into Jay. Snow covered roads from Bellows Falls north and steady snow from St. J north.

Heading up to Jay tomorrow night to ski Saturday and Sunday. Will only have Cochran’s, Northeast Slopes, Ascutney, and Suicide Six left after this for VT ski areas.

I've skied both. Ski Taos if you're an expert, Wolf Creek if you're an intermediate.

00z GFS continues good trend for Thursday/Friday’s storm.

CMC a step in the wrong direction. Takes the storm up through Ohio.

00z GFS slowly trending in the right direction for the D6/D7 storm. Hopefully they continue.

GFS has a rain storm for most of New England on D8/D9 but then tees up a massive interior hit on D10/11. All with a grain of salt, of course.

The "extrapolated NAM" (famous last words, LOL) looks like it would be OTS with the 1/22 event.

.5-.75” down on cold surfaces here in the 10005. Hasn’t mixed yet.

Wet aggregates here in the 10005. Looks like it’s about to flip. Maybe .75” on car windshields?

Makes sense-Agree that Main St is less disruptive to the general public's skiing experience than Hayride.

Is there no longer any racing on Hayride? I know you mentioned that it's the only remaining trail that hasn't seen snow guns, which surprised me, since I thought it often hosts races. I like that trail quite a bit, especially in the spring. What's the rationale on blowing, say, Gulch (a relatively obscure bump run) over a wide trail like Hayride?

Tested positive for COVID this afternoon after testing negative in the morning. The only difference-I swabbed my throat in the afternoon.

https://t.co/1EgfoHKhJX “Experience of a lifetime” at Wildcat.

Attitash GM resigns. Hopefully new leadership can turn it around… Really does have some fun terrain when it’s fully open and has good natural snow.

Skied Shawnee Peak tonight for a couple of hours. Very solid base with probably 4” of snow on top. Was fun… Lots of yahoos out there though.

No that photo is from Utah Avalanche Center on a peak between PCMR and Big Cottonwood. Kind of “behind” 9990.

Do you have the total precip maps for the entire event?

Looks like the pattern changes just in time for my 1/22-1/30 trip to Idaho. That would suck to ski in 50 degree weather out there while watching it pound snow out here (after been its the exact opposite the last month).

Where are the record highs for Dover, NH? Looks like garden variety above normal..

Crotched should be ashamed of itself-as I mentioned-I skied Pats (their biggest competitor) last week and it had deep coverage all over the mountain and was seemingly well-staffed.

Yeah-Can’t speak to the bump runs so much, but they have 3-4 trails on the “main face” that are pretty steep for ~400-500 vertical.

Skied Pats Peak this afternoon for a couple hours... Pretty icy with a layer of granular sugar on top, but still had fun. The amount of snow they have blown (especially given their southern location) is incredible. Deep, deep base depths on all open trails (they're about 60% open) with the guns roaring on the trails that are still closed. Very impressed-hadn't skied there since 2013 (and probably won't again for awhile-I just had a Indy Pass ticket so there was no incremental cost), but what a great showing they're putting on.