2024-2025 Ski season Thread

[tamarack]

1 hour ago, snowgeek said:

Killington skied into June 7 years in a row in the 80’s (82-88). Interesting that people kept referencing the 80’s this winter. Good for upslope in VT I guess.


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The '80s are notorious for low snow totals, but they were quite cold.  In 1988 at our (then) Gardiner home, the snow season's 2nd biggest dump was 8" on April 16.  The previous year we had 6.3" on April 28-29.  Long seasons.

[Brewbeer]

5 hours ago, snowgeek said:

I remember skiing Cascade in late May, early June in the 80’s before the Superstar “Glacier”

That was back in the days of the old killington peak double, you downloaded at the mid station.  Cascade faces north and is on the north side of the ridge and doesn’t get the sun like other trails.

[powderfreak]

The Riverbed that essentially funnels 2,000ft+ verts of water down the Gondola area really blew out at a long swath of elevations.

It’s good to see some of the photos for when it inevitably gets covered by snow.  The Whitewater glade earned its name.

[snowgeek]

The Riverbed that essentially funnels 2,000ft+ verts of water down the Gondola area really blew out at a long swath of elevations.
It’s good to see some of the photos for when it inevitably gets covered by snow.  The Whitewater glade earned its name.

Wow, that’s crazy looking. Never saw anything like that.


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[snowgeek]

The '80s are notorious for low snow totals, but they were quite cold.  In 1988 at our (then) Gardiner home, the snow season's 2nd biggest dump was 8" on April 16.  The previous year we had 6.3" on April 28-29.  Long seasons.

I couldn’t find killington‘s annual snowfall for my freshman year in 1985-86 but I did find 86/87 (233”)and 87/88 (238”) and 88/89 (202”) my other three years. For comparison they’re at 223 inches so far this year so I guess they got a decent amount of upslope and it wasn’t as bad in the mountains of Vermont as it was in the more populated areas. I was coming from Baltimore so it seemed like a shit ton of snow to me ha ha.

[Layman]

11 hours ago, snowgeek said:

I couldn’t find killington‘s annual snowfall for my freshman year in 1985-86 but I did find 86/87 (233”)and 87/88 (238”) and 88/89 (202”) my other three years. For comparison they’re at 223 inches so far this year so I guess they got a decent amount of upslope and it wasn’t as bad in the mountains of Vermont as it was in the more populated areas. I was coming from Baltimore so it seemed like a shit ton of snow to me ha ha.

How long of a ride was it from Baltimore?  I'm on the Seacoast of NH and it was about 2 hours 45 mins a couple weeks ago.  Makes for a long day there and back!

[tamarack]

13 hours ago, snowgeek said:

I couldn’t find killington‘s annual snowfall for my freshman year in 1985-86 but I did find 86/87 (233”)and 87/88 (238”) and 88/89 (202”) my other three years. For comparison they’re at 223 inches so far this year so I guess they got a decent amount of upslope and it wasn’t as bad in the mountains of Vermont as it was in the more populated areas. I was coming from Baltimore so it seemed like a shit ton of snow to me ha ha.

I attended Johns Hopkins for 2 years 64-65 and 65-66, before my GPA led to a non-invite for a 3rd year.  64-65 had only some small snows, 4-5" but 65-66 had a major blizzard in late January.  2-3 days before that event the city had a 7" storm, "Biggest since 1959".  Then on Jan 30 the big one came, with 4" at 9 PM becoming 10" by midnight.  During the school year I lived in a frat house on St. Paul Street, and woke up about 3 AM on the 31st, to see even lower visibility than during the 2"/hour period.  Snowfall was lighter but 50 mph winds roaring out of the north produced a true blizzard.  Total snow was ~15" and it paralyzed the city.  Only Charles and St. Paul were passable north-to-south and IIRC only Orleans east-west.  Four days later I went home (NNJ) for semester break, and when I returned 5 days later, many side streets remained impassable, more than week after the storm.

[snowgeek]

How long of a ride was it from Baltimore?  I'm on the Seacoast of NH and it was about 2 hours 45 mins a couple weeks ago.  Makes for a long day there and back!

I was actually in school at Suny Albany. Albany actually did pretty well my first 3 years of college. 63”, 81”, 77” and then the 88/89 disaster 19”. January 87 was epic. It pretty much note every Tuesday and Sunday the whole month I ended up with over 30” on the ground.


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[snowgeek]

I attended Johns Hopkins for 2 years 64-65 and 65-66, before my GPA led to a non-invite for a 3rd year.  64-65 had only some small snows, 4-5" but 65-66 had a major blizzard in late January.  2-3 days before that event the city had a 7" storm, "Biggest since 1959".  Then on Jan 30 the big one came, with 4" at 9 PM becoming 10" by midnight.  During the school year I lived in a frat house on St. Paul Street, and woke up about 3 AM on the 31st, to see even lower visibility than during the 2"/hour period.  Snowfall was lighter but 50 mph winds roaring out of the north produced a true blizzard.  Total snow was ~15" and it paralyzed the city.  Only Charles and St. Paul were passable north-to-south and IIRC only Orleans east-west.  Four days later I went home (NNJ) for semester break, and when I returned 5 days later, many side streets remained impassable, more than week after the storm.

I lived in Baltimore from 1969-1985 and then went to Albany for college and never left the area. Cool to hear snow stories from before I arrived. 79 and 83 were the 2 epic storms from my childhood and were my snow weenie seeds.


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