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Brundage is only about 100 miles through the wilderness from Lost Trail Powder Mountain as the crow flies, and it has fairly similar elevation (base is slightly lower at Brundge - a bit below 6,000'). The powder skiing is generally going to be dry and fluffy. It may have even been Marc that...

I still have to finish up reports from the weekend, but as forecast we had a nice upslope event yesterday afternoon into the night with some of that ridiculously dry Champlain Powder™. It was really coming down hard at Stowe all afternoon. Some details, comments on the new snowfall are in the...

It looks like we are getting into some of the forecast upslope snow, so I've pasted in my morning update from Americanwx.com: Waterbury Event totals: 5.1” Snow/0.29” L.E. Sunday 1/9/2011 6:00 A.M. update: I cleared the snowboard last night at 10:00 P.M., and it had 0.2” snow on it comprised...

We haven't been hit hard with the inverted trough here in Northern VT like some places in CT, but we've had at least some snow to add on top of the fluff from the clipper earlier in the week. With the new snow I popped up to the mountain for some lift-served runs in the late morning, and then I...

I’m sure that higher humidity exacerbates the issue, but even in Montana I wouldn’t expect that kind of dry, fluffy powder to survive extended periods of 40 F temperatures. The powder has so much air in it, that warm air permeates into it easily and melts crystals much deeper into the snowpack...

It looks like Jay Peak's earlier report of 19" for the storm was initially an error and they have since revised it to 13". More details and links in a post in the NNE thread at Americanwx.com. Snowfall update from today: Here in Burlington it actually snowed steadily for a while in the...

I finished up my trip report from Saturday, which was the last time I was up in the higher elevations. We didn’t ski the alpine trails, but on our drive up I could see that previously thin areas on natural snow terrain were showing ground. Presumably these were the areas where wind or traffic...

We’d found that temperatures had cooled down a bit Friday afternoon at the end of our Bolton outing, and slopes that were not in the sun had begun to tighten up. In general though, temperatures stayed relatively warm, and there was no new snowfall through Saturday morning. We hung out at the...

I'm still finishing up my report, but we skied the Bolton Nordic/backcountry network on Saturday and the base was in great shape (we were in the 2,000' to 2,700 elevation range). We skinned up the Bryant trail to the cabin, and saw a couple small streams with running water off to the sides of...

Friday was the transition day for conditions at Bolton, with high temperatures around 40 F and surfaces becoming spring-like. Details can be found in my 12/31/2010 Bolton Report.

Bolton Valley, VT 31DEC2010 On Friday our friend Dave came up from Boston for a skiing visit, arriving in the late morning with his dogs. Like Thursday, we headed up to the mountain around midday, and the found that the trend of moderating temperatures had continued as suggested by the...

I’m still catching up on trip reports, so I’m only up to Thursday, but it was another great day out there with clear skies and temperatures in the low 30s F. Most trails had settled down to just packed powder, but the powder in the off piste areas was still fantastic. More details are in my...

After Tuesday’s great outing with the boys, the whole family headed out for more turns on Thursday. The skies had been somewhat gray on Wednesday, but the sun was back for Thursday and consistent with the forecast trends, the temperatures were climbing to the low 30s F. There hadn’t been any...

I just added my report from Tuesday at Bolton, which was our first chance to get out and visit Timberline since the Nor’easter. Conditions were excellent both on and off piste, and even some of the steepest tree lines are in play now. The steepest off piste stuff wouldn’t hold up to tons of...

After finding excellent snow conditions at Timberline near the end of the Nor’easter on Monday afternoon, it looked like lift-served skiing was going to be fantastic on Tuesday. E was a little under the weather and wanted to get some things done around the house, so it was going to be a ski day...

Timberline is up and running, yesterday was just wind hold for everything but their surface lift according to the web page. I haven't seen any trip reports, but as far as I know Timberline made its debut on Sunday as planned. Now we'll have to see when they plan to open the Wilderness Lift...

Northern Vermont wasn’t the focus for the recent Nor’easter, but Bolton Valley seemed to do quite well based on what I saw up there today. With this latest shot of synoptic snow now down, I’d say that even the steeper off piste terrain is in play aside from perhaps the lowest-elevation areas...

Northern Vermont wasn’t really the jackpot for this Nor’easter, but we did get into some of the snowfall. As of 6:00 A.M. this morning we’d picked up 1.1 inches of snow down at the house that came in at a fairly synoptic storm-style 9.1% H2O, and up above us at Bolton Valley they reported 3...

I think you guys would have a blast at Bolton based on what I found up there this afternoon; I'm working on the report right now.

It's chilly out with temperatures in the low double digits here in the valley, but I've been thinking of popping up to the mountain for a run. With the wind hold I'm thinking of skinning for a run to check out Timberline since we were out of town for yesterday's opening there. If I head up...