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LOL nice Catamount is known to be a little stricter about sign enforcement, although TBD I guess with the new general manager. And with not much officially open, we decided to pass. We'll definitely head on over there later winter. The new trails are straight down the fall line, maybe the steepest cut trails in MA. Just needs snow.

The big zip lines are a little further ahead in that picture, but yes. It's actually the Roundabout trail. The woods on the right are all pretty darn good, but as you mention you have to walk/ski down the road to where you can cut back into the resort. Later in the winter when there are some old snowbanks from plowing you can pretty often find a ski track on top to keep sliding rather than hoof it.

One primary reason for the radar page change was that it used flash for single radar animation, which is no longer supported by modern browsers effective a few days ago. I presume the new page is more typical javascript. Moreover, the new page is designed to look virtually identical on mobile, which is considered best practices. And it's fair to assume most users are familiar with how to use the underlying map controls these days. I have a similar radar page for the CASA network, albeit google maps based, with a composite page as default for situational awareness and the ability to drill down to single radars. It's pretty tricky to integrate all sorts of product menus, animation controls, zoom, opacity, etc., etc without getting clunky and overwhelming. I feel most sites for models or radars are definitely too much. A side panel with a million options is ok for power users but not so much for the masses. I think Levi has done a really good job with that balance on his page and it would be cool if he could be brought in to help with V2 of the new page. Or just bring radars into TT and rename it weather.data.gov

Berkshire East was very busy, so we decided to forego the lift and skin up the Wilderness side , which was quiet and beautiful. Perfect temps, no wind and light snow. But afterward we rode the lift a few times and found that the handful of groomers were chalky PP and really super good, somewhat to our surprise.

Some things never change

Insanity. Does Okemo allow big mountain snowmobiles? I mean I don't know what else you could do with all that over there.

I didn't see anyone venture into the woods today, but I was gone by 1230. Maybe some late arriving powder hounds might have been lured in, but it was a bridge too far for me personally.... plus we'd had plenty of untracked already. So it'll be powdery in there, but I'd be pretty careful. On trail I think you'd get powder on Hemlock, but you may have to hike it out. That whole side was closed and I didn't see any tracks in that direction. My guess is they'll definitely groom Big Chief and lower Comp, maybe War Dance, and *possibly* even Flying Cloud?? And there will be some nice cord early on. But if you want pow head to Catamount or run the gauntlet up north.

That's awesome. Is that at J Oyster? Helluva haddock chowder

Beast did quite well. Was already skiing in great by noon. Had enough meat in it to cover stuff up.

Catamount powder day tomorrow. We were skinning by 7 and I haven't had a chance to check how they even did down there. But it'll probably be good I presume. Heck, even the beast will be good again with the human groomin. Reports of 30+ in the S Greens are tempting, if you don't mind running the gauntlet... we'll likely stay local.

Wasn't really blower. 15-20+ at the Beast and every trail more or less fine. We skied UMass, Grizzly, Jug, Liftline with nothing underneath with only very light damage. I'm on 111 underfoot. Granted, we weren't throwing weight into big turns... skinny down the fall line, keep em floating. By noon it was skiing in well across the hill and we could be set up going forward.

Same here. Small but fluffy. Not baking powder.

Catamount just announced opening Friday. Berkshire summit pass FTW

Feb reported 3"/hr type stuff in Lancaster PA, with 6.8" before a flip to +IP

You've got the graupler observing humans

Beast-ly Fat skis

Poor kids might not even get a snow day out of it, they'll have to cheer for damaging ice storms now... talk about externalities

I'm a little skeptical about the ability of models to accurately depict subsidence holes, especially small ones. This will be a good test. My feeling is that this will be by and large a people pleaser in SNE... Perhaps not as evenly distributed as say, the Superbowl 2015 storm, but without the huge sucking sounds we sometimes get, like say, last storm.

March '13, I had almost 8" at 740' living on the hilltop in the valley, and at 300' was a slushy coating.

Interesting calling for more on Old Silver Beach than in GC. But they probably figure dragons won't call in totals anyway.

If you're looking to take a road trip, Magic is planning to open on Thurs.

Whereas the east flow could be problematic for some in this area (hi!) due to terrain downsloping, I'll be pretty surprised if mid level subsidence is a major factor.

Agree, certainly not calling for #1 all time at BOS (at the time) but that was another weak ass lp with a big high to the north. I know the setups aren't precisely the same, but saying totals are limited to 8-12" just because it's high 990s instead of mid 980s raised an eyebrow for me.

Tell that to PDII

Nice to have some buffer for the shuffle