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It's not really that as far as I can tell. They just have had a really hard time with lifts and staffing. And the planning has been awful. Last year was a prime example. They shutdown HG and Castlerock before the late season 3 foot dump to prep for the new lift and said they had planned that for a year. Ok fine. But then they didn't keep Ellen open and said they couldn't just ask their staff to stay a few extra weeks... when they just told you they knew a year in advance that there would be no upper mountain anywhere! They basically never run Inverness. North Ridge was down on some of the biggest weekends of the year. GMX was down this year for a bit over Christmas. They don't let you skin Ellen even as snow rots on the hill. It's just super hateable how they operate since Alterra took over. But the terrain is very good to great, so there's that. If they'd sell off Glen Ellen to a benevolent wealthy family, I'd frickin love it.

I've been a longtime SB skier, but you just gotta shake your head these days. Even the Magic ops crew is like "what a sh*tshow up there" . It's an effing disgrace how they treat Ellen too. But yet I do go back for more. All that said, I do agree that the hike to Castlerock is fine and that line gets so long on busy days anyway it's probably faster to just go over from HG

Wow, that's awesome. Where? Unrelated but nice little squall moving in

I know. Yet it goes in the books. Plus it is, at least historically, dominated by radiating nightime lows and the wind has precluded that. My suspicion is that if we had daily climo temp curves we'd find a greater area under the longterm mean than above it for Jan (2F bias aside perhaps). The max+min / 2 method is just really lame and it's so long since time to graduate from arithmetic to stats 101.

BDL might be +4 for Jan after today

Meanwhile, just another day at the beach

16" so far

This. Steady snow all day, 3.5" on grass. Lift is quite low, and even when the radar looked like it's done the sky has argued otherwise. And there has been some back building and redevelopment of moderate snow as well.

2.5" downy fluff. Still snowing

Nice. I've skated there before. Nearby Lake Fairlee has a great hockey crew as well. My cousin resurfaces it daily with a big pump and they have heavy equipment to clear snow. It's serious business up there.

Pro tip that I got today. Spray paint the puck orange on black ice so you can find it when that happens

skating is off the hook all over the valley right now. A- black ice 6"+. Stiff winds has it a bit choppy here and there but totally smooth other places.

Most of my friends in DFW would beg to disagree. They were stoked on the snow. Neighborhood kids having snowball fights and making snowmen. 4"+ north and west of Ft Worth into Denton county especially.

Frenchmen St jazz and a hurricane or 3 will help ease the pain. But yeah, glad I skipped it this year.

Periodically dumping at Magic today. Not much base and firm and lumpy underneath but the light snow skied in well and could pretty much rip on the low angle natural without much hesitation by 11 or so.

only good in Belchertown

Yeah we lucked out with the fake effect today. You can see how some of these places in NYS pile up huge totals but can't retain them. That said maybe ours sticks around a bit now with the low sun angle and cold temps. Even as some sublimates.

Over an inch down, stopped briefly, started right back up. Lake Ontario FTW

Like a half inch in 15 minutes and pound town

Heavy snow and wind here.

That's a historic storm in Texas on the GFS.

A laser disdrometer, acoustic disdrometer, and a tipping bucket all colocated?

Pond hockey of yore

It was. The snowicane, 2/26/10 I think. We all got rain. N Berks/ S VT got destroyed with snow. Logan in ENY had like 44 or something nuts IIRC