LongBeachSurfFreak

https://www.stratton.com/the-mountain/webcams snowing nicely on the mid mountain cam.

Not a great track for a high end landfall. Trajectory has too much land interaction before landfall. Good for what I assume are poor people living in substandard housing. All of the money in India is in the major city’s with the rest of the country still relatively poor.

Man sugar loaf will be sick this week.

93 must have been insane there. I think that was their biggest storm ever with 40” or something. The second storm last March was second with 36”. 36” is too much for that mountain though!

It really is another world up there. There is a reason Jake (Carpenter) Burton moved from Stratton to Stowe. The southern Vermont mountains are a plateau and rounded peaks with nearly flat tops. Up there it’s a ridge line. I wonder if that had anything to due with the ice age. The plateau just doesn’t upslope well. You could see it very clearly on radar Saturday night. While Mansfield was ripping 3” an hour SVT was doing .5” an hour. If it weren’t so far of a drive from NYC I would be up there in a heart beat.

I actually headed out over the weekend for a few careful runs. Powder and a deserted mountain we’re calling Friday. So I did a few again Saturday and Sunday. Actually my favorite weekend of the season. Stratton reported 9” but there was way more then that above 3000’ as Friday mornings snow was higher ratio the higher you get. That’s where Stratton’s extra elevation comes in handy with allot of terrain above 3,000’. I was debating on heading over to magic for the ski free day but it was raining at their base!!! Stratton’s peak at 3850 is a full 1k above Magic’s at 2850. Though Magic’s terrain is way more challenging!

I guess you missed the later post where I did it to myself the next day. Shattered my radious and have to have surgery. If there is one rule, one rule I will stick to from here on out forever it’s no more snow boarding on ice. I’ll just not head up or do something else. My buddys who are mountain safety guys and I had a good talk about why mountains on the east coast stay open on severely icey days. Iron clad wavers of liability. If it’s not brown send people down.

Well I did it again (my collarbone is finally healed) This time it’s a broken radious, actually shattered. Have to get surgery so that’s the end of my season at 18 days. Lost control on the ice at Stratton and put my left hand down (luckily right handed). I’ll still get up to Vermont for some hiking. Next season I’ll be sitting out icy days...

It was pretty bad today at Stratton for anyone that was on the fence and decided not to go. Super icy and I took a good fall on some boiler plate. I assume it was the same situation most places as a friend of mine broke her wrist at Loon.

Thoughts on this weekend in Vermont? The rain tomorrow looks to be fairly minor and I would think it will not screw things up too much.

Should be excellent with the dense snow that fell yesterday. Great weekend with something for everyone. Blue bird Saturday with firm groomers and almost a powder day Sunday, just a little too dense to be considered real powder.

I’m not sure it gets anymore beautiful then today! Blue bird with 100% open. Groomed to perfection. Looking forward to ridding in the snow tomorrow!

Wow, glad I checked this thread! Congrats guys! 4” of slop in NYC, schools closed for nothing!

Heading out into sleet and freezing rain. Had early access yesterday and it was mind blowing. I’m definitely spending the extra money next season.

I cannot describe to you how happy I was to be back out. I’m certainly not fully healed though! I took a chance against advice from pretty much everyone I know. But for those that love it as much as I do you do what you have to do. Conditions were primo and I made sure not to fall, which i did not do once all weekend. I also knew that next weekend will be an ice skating rink again. You have to get on it when it’s good and make sacrifices!

First day back out today since the injury. Great conditions but the crowds were unbearable. I thought the cold would have scared people away but no such luck. As packed as it gets. Some super strong winds on the summit which I enjoyed but I’m sure the general public hated!

Nice to see some positivity. I agree, while it may not be a blockbuster KU I think we get at least one solid warning event sometime between 2/15-3/15

At least there is some positive news on that front today. Still plenty of prime snow season left. The island especially does well late season when near shore water temps are cold. Which they will be after this next cold blast.

I would be very very wary of boiler plate ice. Most of the bigger resorts will make snow to resurface so mornings can be good. But as soon as that surface is scrapped off watch out. Solid ice is concrete when you fall on it. My buddy on the ski patrol at Stratton said today was a nightmare. Major melt down with full rivers going down trails. We really can’t seem to catch a break this winter

Agreed. The big arctic events In the city that set their record lows were big CAA events so it was likely similarly cold even at west Hampton

Wow, that’s more like an incredible winter. Below zero in 3 seperate months! Snow cover days must be near the top as well. The February storm was most likely a coastal hugger so I would assume inland there were probably totals over 3’.

13.5” on 2.95” liquid is insane. Must have been a ton of sleet. That would have been a nightmare to clear. Good analog, though I doubt we see anything close to that magnitude of cold.

Well an inch of fresh snow over glare ice is a nightmare. Took the worst fall I have ever had by far and smashed my right side. Snapped my collar bone in half. Luckily it wasn’t worse but I’m out for 6-8 weeks...

No mention of feb 5/6 2010? that was a mind boggling bad luck storm for us. Has to be the number one dissipointment of all time

Magic has Stratton’s old snow bowl lift now which should help allot. i don’t get his constant dissing on Stratton. If your coming from down south it’s the first decent mountain. And I would rather the high end feel then a bunch of riff raff. There are plenty of hard core snow boarders still here as it used to be the epicenter of snow boarding and where jake burton took snow boarding main stream. Obviously it has nothing on further north but that’s not feasible for me. today has some super fun soft spring conditions and again I have the place to myself. If you have all gortex it’s fine.