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Saturday I decided to burn some bulk discount tickets at Okemo. The weather was warm but foggy with a few snow flakes and some water droplets. Vision was a problem on the upper mountain because of droplets on goggles, but not a lot of vision is required to ski buffed corduroy. <BR> <BR>Okemo...

Funny how spoiled we are this year with early dumps and recharging storms. No appreciable fresh snow in a couple of weeks and I'm hungry for more. Last season the current conditions would have been heaven.

Magic hadn't received much natural snow in the two weeks since my last visit. Apparantly the mountain management has taken to grooming more trails and I was shocked to see that Broomstick, Talisman and Sorcerer had been groomed virtually wall to wall. Why, Sorcerer had a coating of faux snow...

Hunt for the mogul was something I tried while at Cannon a couple of weeks ago and other than Mittersill and Paulies there weren't any. Magic has started grooming the bumps off of most of their trails now, so maybe brutal grooming is a trend because mountains like Stratton and Okemo are...

Not to get too technical, but for me if it is white and hard it is frozen granular if I can get edge set. Ice is blue, shiney and honed edges on stiff skis won't get edge set. I ski the sugar lines at the edges of trails. The poor unfortunates with short, soft skis and dull edges. <BR>...

This was my first time at Tenney on a cold, as in 10 below zero, morning but the sun shone and the trails looked inviting. There hadn't been any siginificant snow recently, but Tenney had excellent cover on all their trails and glades. I particularly enjoyed skiing uncrowded conditions on a...

Sugarbush was a trifle cool on 1/11, but there was 4 to 6 inches of fresh snow on Saturday AM to sweeten things up. The cold snap had firmed up the groomed and ungroomed snow a bit, but conditions were good. <BR> <BR>Sugrabush was 100% open and is still making snow on selected trails like Down...

Fresh snow giving way to sunshine, light crowds and wonderful snow what a way to spend Friday at Magic. I was able to get 'buck a run by 12:30 PM (for those who don't know what this is it is lift ticket price divided by number of runs). Magic had recieved another 8-10 inches of snow since...

The drive north to VT on 1/3 was a slow drive with many accidents, poor visibility, snowy roads and examples of poor driving. I was on back roads for most of the drive which were pretty good and could do 40 to 45 MPH. The short stint on I-91 in VT was a nightmare; some drivers were going 20...

Wow, what a perfect day for skiing Friday was, sun, fresh powder, warm without snow melt and no wind. Magic has great snow conditions, but not 100% open as Slide of Hans was roped which was strange as it was open before the Dec 25 dump. Magic claimed 30 inches of fresh, but there was at least...

I made it to the KBL at 7:30 AM and snagged a decent parking spot, but noticed there was already a line for the K1 gondola. The weather was warm and it was evident that there was a melt down in progress. It turned out to be a great ski day; warm, sunny, hero bumps and lots of people. Did I...

Magic Mtn reopened after getting 18-24" of snow last week. I headed up on Sunday to try a few turns and see what conditions were like. Most of the mountain was open, but the wind packed powder had refrozen to a very challenging consistancy. The snow consitancy made a run down Broomstick to...

Finally made it to Magic for a weekend of skiing. The natural snow had cooperated enough to get most of the trails open. Powder snow is fun to ski, but doesn't hold up too well to traffic so trails and glades that were delightful on 1/19 had vegetation and geology exposed on subsequent days...