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Wearing green for half price tickets & thanking the luck of the Irish for the storm that allowed this magic place to re-open. Cold morning with bluebird skies - started a facemask day but warmed up enough for quality deck time after lunch. Packed powder base - the ungroomed runs with soft...

2 for 1 at Cannon. Cold - windy with occasional flurries - 4th facemask day in a row. Low clouds with flat light. The runs up top a mix of packed powder and large drifts with occasional wind scoured spots. Only the most hearty did much skiing up top. The front 5 were left ungroomed with...

Staying in Lincoln, NH for 3 days. Snow started around 7:00am. Drive down to the hill was slow but uneventful. By first chair there was already 2" on the ground at the base, twice that on top. Cold, face mask day with heavy snow and strong winds. Light extremely flat at times. The snow...

Timing is everything... Drove up to Burke from Lincoln, NH to take advantage of the 3 for 1 ticket deal. The storm just got in the way of existing plans... Interstates empty and fairly clean. Got to the hill early and dumped the stragglers to catch first chair from the bottom - heading for...

It was as magic a day as we got out East last year, especially after we'd been kicked off the lifts the day before at Mt Ellen because of a thunder storm. The vertical at Stowe has that magical ability to generate a snow cloud when all around it is bare. Here's an image from Lift Line, late...

Second day of spring skiing in the Eastern Townships of Quebec - Owls Head. Overnight rain had left everything soft and carve-able. Morning mist/clouds finally burned off enough by noon to provide some visibility on the runs. Lots of bare patches and wash outs, certainly most Ontario resorts...

no problem - tried rotating it (shows rotated on my pc) - I'm just going to tell everyone that's how steep Nosedive is!

St Patricks Day - $17 lift tickets. Spring conditions with early morning cloud/mist burning off to warm, sunny skies by 11am. Snow soft & granular with bare patches keeping you on your toes. Still, for $17 I'm not about to complain, especially with ski-on lifts. (Original plan was to ski MRG...

We were there 2016-03-18 and the open runs were in excellent shape. They'd had received 3"-4" of snow overnight - we had a blast! (Not sure why the system keeps rotating the picture by 90 degrees?)

For the 4th year in a row the siren song of NY state ski day, Thursday (2016-01-28) with $24 tickets for Whiteface, lured me into what became an Eastern multi-day trip. I was able to combine free "Air Miles" lift tickets for Bromont, Quebec for Monday (2016-01-25) with "Roll Back the Clock Day"...

I was there on Wednesday (27th) and your report is sill pretty much bang on! Your description of Can Am is exactly what I saw looking down a wind scoured Wedelmaster below the Flyer chair - (Anthony: "completely wind swept offering up exposed rock and ice with snow on skiers right.") Not...

Blue Mountain is the largest ski area in Ontario. The general layout is that most runs start with a gradual run down to a steep/steeper/"this is serious" headwall section (about a third of the run) and then gradually reduce in slope to a flat out run towards the lifts. The "mountain" spreads...

Day 2 of 5... We had our choice of 4 ski areas in central New Hampshire offering $17 lift tickets on St. Patrick's Day and I think we lucked out choosing Wildcat. Weather called for near freezing with a "wintry mix" but aside for some brief ice pellets, we got mostly light slow all day. What...

Good analogy - both seem to get similar amounts of snow, are state/province run and the 4k run does remind me of Follies/Parons. Lake Placid is a funkier town because of the Olympic vibe and has much better lodging options than Magog, although I will say that the restaurants in Magog have...

Day 1 of 5, Eastern "Spring 2015" trip. The "wintry mix" called for in the Eastern Townships had changed to 3-4" of snow the day before and then gotten cold overnight. The day started with facemasks & real packed powder. Mont Orford is a fun mountain, (actually 3) the most challenging in the...