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I headed up to Bolton this afternoon with E and the boys once the powder built up to do a bit of storm day skiing. When we first arrived at around 1:00 P.M. the snowfall was moderate and the flakes were fairly small, but flake size and snowfall intensity picked up through the afternoon. I did...

As I mentioned in my response to Anthony above, various storms are expected to come through the area in the next week, with the first one tomorrow. It’s not a huge storm, but the area is currently under a Winter Storm Warning for that one. It could provide perhaps a foot of snow for the local...

We haven't been on piste since the warm days at the end of last week, but I've heard comments about hard snow from some folks. Bolton's BC was quite nice on Monday though; I would have suggested just going with a healthy dose of BC on your trip to get in some great skiing, but there is a train...

Temperatures warmed up above freezing at all elevations in Northern Vermont at the end of last week, so we waited for the powder to build up over the long weekend before finally heading out this afternoon for turns. We had three small systems that dropped snow over the holiday weekend; down at...

While the ski conditions in Northern Vermont had been decent, and certainly consistent through January with some nice powder days, the snowpack depth still wasn’t all that great. In fact, as February approached, the snowpack at the Mt. Mansfield stake had been below average for a good portion...

I realized that I wanted to follow up on some of the comments on skis for kids. In terms of hand me downs, it’s like Tony suggested, the skis aren’t anywhere near being worn out when Ty is done with them – whether new or used, they look essentially like they did when he got them, so Dylan...

I’ve finally found a chance to post an update from Sunday over at Stowe. We actually finished up with 2.5 inches of snow down at the house from Saturday’s snowfall activity, and Bolton picked up 4 inches out of that one, but it was definitely our least snowy Stowe Sunday to date. At the resort...

I've been in the valleys around here all day, where we were certainly above freezing, although Powderfreak has been doing a nice job of updating from Stowe and borderwx has been updating from the Jay Peak area. The best place to follow along with their stuff is in the NNE thread at...

E and Claire canceled Sunday Stowe program on the 23rd due to the cold, but on the 30th we were back at it. After a fairly dry week, we’d received some nice new accumulation up at Bolton to freshen up the slopes on Saturday. Down in the valley at the house, we wound up with 1.4 inches from...

Since there hadn’t been any new snow overnight, and Bolton was only reporting 3 inches in the past 72 hours, we were actually planning to hit the Nordic/BC network with the boys. But, we received surprise calls from friends that were already on route to the mountain so we met up with them for...

I wouldn't think so; it seems as though you use a rather similar scale throughout the country, and that seems pretty fair.

I had read a few of the first posts in this thread, but didn't really follow along because it seemed mostly about snowmaking at an area that I wasn't really familiar with; then it seemed to balloon to 9 pages and I figured that it must have expanded beyond just snowmaking. It certainly did...

I just checked in on this thread yesterday, but I'm not sure why nobody has clarified the Stowe Gondola issue yet; Stowe replaced their earlier Gondola, the one Shifty has presumably ridden, about 20 years ago (maybe early 90s?) with a substantially larger 8-passenger one.

That sounds about right; without looking at the scoring I would guess that during winter roughly one weekend a month around here ends up with substandard conditions due to a thaw, mixed precipitation, or whatever. To me those off weekends are nice to some degree, certainly not because of what...

That’s a good observation; the skis in the picture actually are Ty’s widest-tipped skis at 114 mm. It’s been rather tough getting powder skis for the boys, as there isn’t (or at least I haven’t seen in the past couple of seasons) much out there in the 100 cm length range or below with extra...

It was a little tough to motivate the boys for skiing last Saturday, since there hadn’t been any significant storms reaching Northern Vermont. At the house we’d picked up just a couple inches of snow in the preceding week, and even up in the high country Bolton was reporting just 5 inches of...

Here are some quick updates from the weekend around here. On Saturday we were at Bolton, and at that point we were skiing the powder from the midweek synoptic storm. That storm was the big “one two punch” system that affected a lot of the country. Around here it came in with an initial round...

I've added a couple of my updates below for the current storm cycle, more storm details from this exciting storm are available in the NNE thread at Americanwx.com. Saturday, Feb 5, Evening update: We were up at Bolton today, and conditions were nice. This midweek storm wasn’t entirely ultra...

It looks like a potentialyl moderate snow event is coming through the region for the overnight period, and winter storm warnings are up for part of the area: This should be a good follow up to the midweek event, since that storm was really the first big synoptic event around here, and it’s...

I've added in my latest report to Americanwx.com below as a quick update from yesterday. In general the totals for the Groundhog Storm were in the 1.5 to 2 foot range for the mountains around here. There are more storms in the pipe, the main question seems to be how much snow they deliver this...