NNE Cold Season Thread 2024-2025

[bwt3650]

Yeah it’s not warm.  It’s not really unusual for January in the north, but it’s still something you don’t want to be stuck out in.
Stowe Mountain Rescue had a long one yesterday in the Notch.  Three teens wandered off Spruce at the end of the day and got cliffed out.  Then it got dark and very cold.
SMR did a high angle rope rescue and got them down to the road at like 11:30pm.
This crew are certified badasses.

That’s some life or death stuff right there…those guys don’t get nearly the credit they deserve.


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[MBRI]

Shot from the Stub Hill trail  entrance on the NH  Maine Border  yesterday

[#NoPoles]

-23 or so at HIE this morning. And headed that way again to.orrow morning. Good for ice fishing. I think people got out on the the ice a bit too early this season

[J.Spin]

On 1/19/2025 at 8:22 PM, borderwx said:

Good living J! It has been a great week to be a skier in N VT.

There’s no doubt about that – I skied at both ends of the Northern Greens over the long weekend, and the off-piste conditions are excellent, just like you’d expect them to be at this time of year. Over the past couple of weeks I’ve found that the balance of snow accumulations and settling is generally yielding powder depths of 1 to 2 feet, and base depths at elevation are 40 inches or so. Snowpack at the Mt. Mansfield Stake is at 56 inches, which is only a foot above average, but the consistent snowfall and cold temperatures have kept the conditions in prime form.

January’s snowfall has been decent thus far, helping to keep us on the high side of average pace as the updated plot for our site shows below. It looks like snowfall slows down a bit over the next couple of days, but the GFS has more of northern stream bread and butter look with Clippers as we head into the weekend and on into next week.