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From my perspective here in Northern Vermont, there’s no way the skiing should be classified as anywhere in the “A” range right now. We’ve had some excellent powder skiing over the past couple of weekends, and a week ago Sunday I skied powder that would rate “A+” even on my demanding snow...

Two things to note from Friday’s outing at Bolton were that wind reset some of the powder surfaces and a bit of wind crust formed. A couple of conditions shots are below, and the rest of the text and images are in my Bolton report from Friday.

The boys opened up some early Christmas presents yesterday, so there was no way I was getting them up to the hill, but I was able to join up with Stephen and his kids for some turns. In the past we’ve had some great Bolton outings on Christmas Eve, with some nice natural snow terrain available...

I'm not sure, perhaps they're being frugal or staffing is not yet in place. Timberline is the lowest elevation terrain pod and in terms of coverage it sure seemed ready when I passed by yesterday: I don’t know about Wilderness yet, but at least the Timberline and Snowflake lifts are both...

My Bolton Valley report from yesterday is up with a few pictures. It wasn’t a Champlain Powder™ type of day with dry snow billowing up all over the place, but the dense snow was really great for the base and it was smooth and bottomless.

We contemplated heading to Smuggler’s Notch yesterday to use some free vouchers, but opted for Bolton Valley instead when they won out with snow accumulations. Bolton reported 7 inches of new snow, and based on my analyses from the house, it was in the 8-9% H2O range for density. This meant...

Waterbury Event totals: 4.2” Snow/0.35” L.E. Thursday 12/23/2010 2:00 P.M. update: With Bolton Valley topping the accumulations list from this event, we headed there today for turns. Consistent with their report, my depth checks on new snow around the mountain generally revealed about 7...

Waterbury event totals: 3.8” Snow/0.32” L.E. Thursday 12/23/2010 6:00 A.M. update: The snow fell overnight as generally a continuation of the small flakes we’ve seen, so a decent amount of liquid was in the 2.1 inches I found on the board this morning. The average snow density here for the...

This one sort of snuck up on us, so I figured I give a heads up that there should be another nice NVT powder day tomorrow. With the way the snow has been falling, BTV put up advisories for 2 to 5 inches, and I’ve added a couple of their graphics below. I suspect the western slopes will be...

As I mentioned in my flash update from yesterday, the quality of the powder up at Bolton’s Timberline area was basically about as good as it gets yesterday, and I’ve got some of the details in my 12/19/2010 Bolton Valley trip report. It’s snowing right now down here at the house, and it looks...

We had a busy day of holiday-related activities planned yesterday, so I headed out early to earn some powder turns before things got going. Although I’d been hearing great things about the snow at Timberline, and I’d driven by and seen the tracks there a number of times, I decided it was...

We spent yesterday in bounds at Bolton Valley, and I can report that conditions were generally excellent on both the groomed and non-groomed areas that we hit. Lots of natural snow through the week made the groomed surfaces packed powder everywhere but the highest traffic, exposed areas that we...

Bolton Valley, VT 18DEC2010 We had one of those weeks where it snowed almost continuously at the house and in the local mountains, but there haven’t been any huge synoptic storms to make people really stand up and take notice. We’ve actually had over a foot of snow this week at our location in...

I just got back from a ridiculously good run on Spell Binder at Timberline. On top of the base I found 11-16 inches of bottomless fluff, which has a beautiful right side up density gradient topped off with 5-6% H2O Champlain Powder™. I have to think it has never seen any wind, and the quality...

Event totals: 12.3” Snow/2.13” L.E. Saturday 12/18/2010 6:00 A.M. update: At some point, last night’s flurries turned into accumulating snow overnight, and we wound up with 0.9 inches on the board this morning. Just when it seems the low pressure up north is done, it keeps on having an...

From what I've been reading on AmericanWx.com com, it sounds like the East Coast had it pretty bad with rain and warm temperatures (Maine seemed to get a lot of that in this one), but it wasn't quite the same for the interior like upstate NY and Northern VT, where there was more snow and less...

Event totals: 5.4” Snow/1.82” L.E. Tuesday 12/14/2010 6:00 A.M. update: The small flakes that we were picking up yesterday evening were replaced by much larger flakes this morning. I found 3.2 inches of snow on the board this morning for the 6:00 A.M. report, and the big flakes were coming...

Stowe, VT 12DEC2010 E and I headed out to Stowe yesterday for the school program training session, wondering what we were going to experience in terms of weather. Happily, the first flakes appeared just after we arrived at around 8:00 A.M., the snowfall quickly ramped up in intensity, and then...

Bolton Valley, VT 11DEC2010 Last week’s virtually endless upslope snowfall had finally stopped by Friday, but another small system passed through on Friday night. It wasn’t supposed to deliver much, but when I looked outside around 11:00 P.M. on Friday night, we were getting a pounding of...

Bolton Valley, VT 10DEC2010 Yesterday morning I headed up to Bolton to catch some opening day turns and check out the four feet of new snow they’d picked up over the week. On the way up I could see that Timberline was just loaded with tracks from all the folks that had been earning turns...