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Have a great trip and hope the snow is good for you. I'm envious!

Nice! I just looked at the web cams for GT. Snowing there now and it looks like mid-Winter. They have, like, 92 out of 95 trails open and more snow (maybe 1 to 2 feet?) is expected between Dec. 25 and Dec. 30. Jackson Hole has all their lifts open, including the tram, but only about 50% of their...

Tseeb, I think your stories of woe on the slopes and off, can best be summarized by that age-old philosophical quote "sh*t happens". But I feel your pain.

Not going to Grand Targhee on this trip?

Have you given up on Targhee over the holiday? Have gotten a fair amount of snow over the past few days and they now have all 6 of their lifts open and 87 of 93 trails open. I would expect they might have 100% open by this weekend, with perhaps more snow later in the week. From their webcams...

I find this YouTube site to be a helpful overview of ski area weather forecasts. Predicting medium to heavy snow for the Tetons around the 15th of December.

Windows 3.1?? I thought they have been using Abascus 1.0?

"Leaf peeping" season in the Northeast US is always a busy time of the year for tourism. As noted above, usually runs from about mid-September to mid-October (peak times but the shoulder season can last a few weeks on either side of those dates) and chronologically, goes from North to South...

I read today that the Wyoming DOT may try to cut a temporary detour through part of the forest that is close to the section of the road that collapsed and they think it may take only weeks to get it open. From the photos I saw, I'm not sure how they will do this but they are under pressure to...

I don't know how many people saw this news story but a section of Teton Pass between Jackson Hole and Driggs, Idaho catastrophically failed in a major disaster. It's truly frightening when you see the photos of the total collapse of the underlying road structure. Amazing that no one was hurt...

https://www.grandtarghee.com/the-mountain/cams-conditions/webcams Webcam from the Grand Targhee base at 4:30 PM (EST) on 5/23/24. Over a foot of new snow in the past 24 hours. Not sure of the consistency of the snow but they are now allowing uphill traffic on the mountain.

Thanks, Chris! You've now convinced me to NEVER move to Florida (either permanently or for the winter months); I have visited for short periods of time and it can be nice, in certain areas, to spend a week or two in the Winter or early Spring to get out of the Northeast cold.

Terrible and very sad story. As the parent of an only child, my heart aches for her parents. I'm not sure what the moral is but Mother Nature can be a very cruel mistress at times. This (almost) exact same tragedy occurred to friends of ours in western Massachusetts about 10 or 12 years ago...

Latest forecast for the Plattsburgh, NY area in northeastern NY state (in the center of the path of totality) is for mostly clear and sunny skies in the afternoon of April 8, with a forecasted cloud cover of 18%. Of course, they may get 1 to 2 feet of snow later this week from a powerful coastal...

Thanks, Tony, for all that information! Yea, my estimate of, maybe a 20 to 25% chance of a clear or mostly clear day in upstate NY in early April was purely a guess based on my anecdotal experience of living in the Northeast most of my life. At this time of year, we seem to get a lot of...

I hadn't really given much thought to travelling to see the total eclipse but now that we're getting closer, I'm thinking I may drive up to northern NY state. I can be in Plattsburgh, NY (right in the middle of the path of totality, with an estimate total eclipse of about 3;30 minutes) in about...

No, the glades were not skiable and were roped off. Basically, the only terrain that was skiable was those trails that had snowmaking. Normally, they try to get to the middle of April, but, unless we get some substantial snowstorms, I doubt they'll make it that long. It really has been a...

Drove up to Montreal on Sunday to visit my daughter and we skied at Mt. Tremblant on Monday, March 4. It was strange driving up interstate 87 (the “Northway”) through the Adirondacks because there was no snow at the lower elevations, not even piles of snow on the side of the road, from plowing...

68" of new snow at Jackson Hole at the top of the mountain, so far in the first week of March. 17" in the past 24 hours.

Thanks for those charts, Tony. Excuse my stupidity ("statistics was, by far, my lowest grade in college), but I'm not sure I understand the "total water as the percent of total snow" chart. I assume the higher percent number on the chart mean more "liquid precipitation" (i.e., rain) in the given...