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I haven’t finished up my full reports from the weekend yet, but I figured I’d pass along a couple of quick updates on conditions. On Saturday we were up at Bolton, and while there weren’t any significant storms last week (Bolton’s Saturday report was just 5 inches in the previous 7 days), the...

Bolton Valley Nordic & Backcountry, VT 22JAN2011 After a great powdery outing with Dave up on Bolton’s Nordic/backcountry network on MLK Monday, our next snow event began the following day. It was one of those low pressure systems in the Great Lakes that redevelops as a coastal, and as has...

The boys are both moving along well this season; Ty is working on different techniques with his powder skiing, such as keeping his skis together to make a unified platform depending on the conditions. When he was younger it was definitely harder for him to balance as well with the skis close...

Here’s a quick update from yesterday (Saturday, January 22nd, 2011): I headed out for some turns, and figured I’d get some insight into the current state of the powder after this week’s snows. Bolton has reported over a foot of additional snow this week from the two events. I suspect they...

I finished up my report from Monday up at Bolton; it was basically more of the usual from the past few reports, but it’s hard to complain about monotony when it’s light and deep:

Dave stayed over through Monday, and the plan was to get in another day of skiing. With the amazing powder conditions I’d encountered on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, combined with additional snowfall, it was a no brainer to try and make some turns on the holiday. We had contemplated...

I put together my report from Sunday at Bolton, which was essentially more fluff on fluff, topped off with… additional fluff during the day. I noticed that Johannes has generated his report from Sunday at VTSkiReport.com entitled "Preacher", so that's another good look at the day from his...

Dave had heeded my late week alert about the good skiing, so on Saturday evening we worked out a morning Timberline meeting. The clipper system that had started up midday Saturday dropped roughly 4 inches of new snow at the house by 6:00 A.M. Sunday morning, with most of that coming in at 3.7...

I put together my Bolton update from Saturday, where there was excellent chopped up snow on piste and 20 to 30 inches of powder off piste, with another clipper starting up around noontime. We didn’t really start heading to the powder hard until Sunday and Monday, but Saturday was a good all...

Last week’s midweek system had continued the excellent stretch of snow, yielding a great dose of dry Champlain Powder up at Bolton for Thursday, and then snowfall from that system continued at a slower pace right into the holiday weekend where a clipper was due to add more fluff. On Saturday...

The quality of the powder this holiday weekend, at least what we experienced at Bolton, was certainly A/A+ even by my standards, so it doesn’t get much better than that. The way things were working out was that we’d get some 8-10% H2O synoptic snow, and then it would be followed by round after...

Powderfreak sent in a nice Stowe update to SkiVT-L that summarizes how the local conditions have been over the past week or so. He appropriately called it "A Week of Powder" and it has his usual collection of excellent photos from various days. It gets a little hazy in there in terms of...

Thursday was another great one out on the hill; we picked up some denser synoptic snow from the Nor’easter and then the Northern Greens topped it off with their world class fluff. Some snow, weather and skiing details are in my Bolton Valley report from Thursday. Next up is the holiday...

I was too busy to get out on Monday for the bounty of upslope snow that followed the weekend’s inverted trough system, but overall it was quite a nice event. By the time it finished up on Tuesday we’d reeled in a total of 18 inches of snow at our location in the valley to make it our second...

This has been quite a week for snowfall in Northern Greens, kicking off with the synoptic snows coming from the inverted trough on Saturday the 8th, and then a good slug of upslope Champlain Powder™ coming in on Sunday. Even in the valley we picked up 10 inches of fluff over the course of...

Sunday, January 9th was our first school program session of the season, and we were off to Stowe for the afternoon. With the level of skier traffic, especially weekend skier traffic that Stowe sees, Sunday afternoons don’t typically offer optimal snow surfaces. However, last season had to be a...

Last Saturday saw good conditions getting better as we were at the front end portion of the inverted trough. Since my midday explorations on the alpine trails revealed that there hadn't been enough new snow to open spots with poor base depths, E and the boys and I headed out to Bolton's Nordic...

After checking out Bolton’s snow situation and alpine trail offerings around midday, I headed home and filled E and the boys in on what I’d found. Since there was plenty of powder, but not a ton of lift-served trail options were available, it was a perfect time to head up for a tour on the...

There’s been a bit too much skiing and other stuff so I haven’t been able to get out daily updates, but I’m catching up now. Between the inverted trough, the big upslope that followed that, then the Nor’easter with its own upslope, there’s been so much additional snowfall since Saturday (almost...

Northern Vermont wasn’t the focus of the weekend’s inverted trough system, but Bolton had reported a couple inches of new snow. We’d seen generally small flakes from the system at the house, but in the late morning when they started to get much larger, I figured it was time to head up to the...