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Smuggs reports 405" as of this afternoon. Another 8 inches fell while I was there today, on top of the 26 that had already fallen from this storm. Believe it. I was up to my waist quite often all day long.....

Joe, Great stuff! Thanks for sharing!

I don't really have time to be doing this, but I've gotta get this out and right now. When it rains, it pours. And when it snows, it buries us deep in bottomless powder. As you approach the Sterling parking lot, the snowbanks are now over 8 feet high. And it is snowing really hard even still...

I was there late this morning to squeeze in (not out;) a couple runs before heading to the dirty "W" word. Temp was 32 degrees as of about noon when I left and it was (& surely still is) snowing like crazy. Seems colder now & there is great potentential for something big going on. It's piling up...

oops, insert a "gg" in the appropriate par of the title... sorry

I had ambitious plans for this whole week, but at the time my body felt a little different than it does right now. Hung over, you might say. I knew when I woke up this morning that I wasn't going out to sea in search of whitecaps. No, today I stayed inland and enjoyed the placidity of cruising...

I apologize to anyone who didn't ski these two days.This is going to hurt you. <BR> <BR> <BR> Whoa. This is beautiful. I love you, man. I love everything. I am a butterfly. I am a butterfly and where is my cocoon? It's gone! Grrrrooooovy.... <BR> <BR> Drove to the store directly...

It's snowing like crazy!! <BR> <BR> I went skiing, then I went home, then I went back for more skiing. On the way home from part 2, it was snowing like mad. It still is snowing like mad. There was a Subaru wagon in a deep wide ditch on the side of Rt 108, facing the wrong way. Visibility was...

Just took 5 runs at smuggs. I expected to wait 20 minutes at a time in liftlines. Shockingly, there was no wait at all up until about 10:30. The longest wait after that was 5 minutes at 11:00. If anybody out there is still making up their mind about if & where to ski this afternoon, I'll...

As a Smuggs regular, obviously I am biased. <IMG SRC="http://www.firsttracksonline.com/discus2/clipart/happy.gif" ALT=":)"> That said, the east is having it's best Christmas in years. Check my recent No Bull reports for more detail. However, this doesn't say much for what conditions may be like...

When you set your sights on a 1 foot space between two trees, something happens inside. You don't need much speed to feel every nerve in your body perk up and tune in. When the upper body turns sideways to fit the shoulders through, an energy starts to swell. There is the sound of a jacket...

Madonna 1 was on windhold, leaving Sterling as the best option. The mountain's in fine shape overall. Everything on it is currently open. There are 2 short sections of wind scoured & solid ice at the very top of Rumrunner, but this was easily negotiable by standing straight up and holding out...

Snow fell lightly all morning, until it intensified for the entire afternoon. We picked up a dusting with each lift ride. With almost no wind, it was like being in one of those little decorative snow shaker thingies - snowflakes just kinda hovering and floating in the air. <BR> <BR> We did a...

Just a quick early morning set of runs for my 1st consecutive days on skis. I felt good when I rolled out of bed, so why not? There was a still chill when I first arrived. Temperature = 4F, wind = 0mph. I'll take it. A lot of freshly groomed stuff was available, but a lot was left alone too...

forgot to mention: the date of this message is 12/20/2000

Pretty quiet in town this morning. I wonder why?? It's pretty quiet up on the hill too. I saw a guy skiing the headwall on Madonna Liftline this morning and he didn't make a sound. The white swirls he left behind were not anything short of pornographic. He was submerged in white from mid...

You'd have to be stoned out of your mind to go skiing in heavy rain. To be sitting in a slow moving chair with raindrops bombarding your hood. To think of how it sounds much like being in a tent during a downpour and then burst out laughing for no apparent reason. <BR> <BR>And you would have to...

One of life's simpler little pleasures, I had forgotten all about. Until this morning. It is skiing with the warmth of the sun at your back and watching your shadow mimic your every move. My shadow looked like a pretty good skier today. <BR> <BR> The snow was perfect for my first day back on...

There were a couple messages in another thread that seemed to be questioning themselves. <BR> <BR>"Is it OK for me to be so obsessed?" <BR> <BR> It's a perfectly innocent question and deserves an honest answer. <BR> <BR> It's OK. You don't need a permission slip. Come back here anytime for...

<I>(Note from the Administrator: This report was originally posted on 2/7/00. Due to our move to new servers, the date and time attributed to this post is incorrect.)</I> <BR> <BR> It's been one of the best weeks of my life. Let's see, lemme count. 1 2 3 4 5 6 SEVEN days in a row of POWDER...