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Text and additional pictures from the day can be found in my Jay Peak report from 5/9/2010.

Thanks to some of our local forecasters, we had about a week’s notice that a potential Mother’s Day Snowstorm was on the way, so there was plenty of time to get ready for it. The cold air was expected to be pulled into the storm system by Saturday evening, and that would get the snow going. It...

I visited Bolton this morning, and I almost turned around right at the main base because the view was rather uninspiring. I guess the initial shock came because all the main trails looked pretty scoured and nothing like the deep coverage I’d seen yesterday at Jay Peak. After a quick walk...

We went to the Stateside base of Jay Peak (2,000’) and did some skiing today on the lower slopes. The wind was howling at times in classic Jay Peak style; I bet it was gusting to 40 MPH, and the temperature at that elevation was 30 F. With the wind, I measured snow accumulations from 4 to 18...

This update was for our NNE thread over at Eastern, but I realized it would also be useful in this thread. I finally had a chance to look at the totals from our storm at the end of April, so here’s what the precipitation data look like for our location, Mt. Mansfield, and Mt. Washington...

Bolton Valley, VT 29APR2010 On Thursday morning I was back up at Bolton to see how the powder was doing. The freezing line had certainly crept upwards from where it had been on Wednesday, and even up at the main base (2,100’) there was a thick melt crust on the snow. I could see that there...

I've added a couple of pictures from Wednesday below, but the rest can be found in the Bolton Valley 4/28/2010 Trip Report. -J

We’d had a good run of four small powder days during the April 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th stretch that had gradually resupplied the area’s ski slopes, and in some cases made for wall to wall snow coverage right back down to the base elevations. However, spring warmth and sunshine returned...

I headed up to Bolton this morning, and it was quite a show up there in terms of snowfall. I only had time to skin up to 2,600’, but here’s a rough elevation profile for the snow accumulations I saw: 340’: 3”-4” 1,000’: ~8” 2,100’: 12”-15” 2,600: 18” Those numbers are from the 6:30 A.M...

Event Totals: 3.0” snow/0.69” L.E. It snowed steadily all day today at the UVM campus in Burlington, but whether due to the air temperature or some solar energy still getting through the thick clouds, the accumulations never really pushed past an inch or two on the elevated/grassy surfaces, and...

Snow has been accumulating all the way down here in Burlington this morning, and in general the anticipated snow totals with this event are up from yesterday, with snow levels forecast to be all the way down to some of the lower valleys as we've been seeing. Some pictures from Powderfreak and...

It sounds like Killington has stopped running their lifts, but there’s certainly plenty of snow on the usual late-season trails. They’ll probably even get some additional snow out of the upcoming system, but it looks like the jackpot area is more in the northern part of the state near Jay Peak...

Killington, VT 24APR2010 It seems that as of this season, Dylan has finally reached the point where he could handle a day of spring bumps at Killington, so we headed down for some skiing on Saturday. We were actually hoping to bring the boys out for some Superstar mogul bashing in May, but...

Bolton Valley, VT 19APR2010 Yesterday I headed up to the mountain for the final round of snow from the weekend system. The first traces of snow on the ground were again around the 1,800’ level along the access road, and the temperature was near freezing in the village (2,100’). It was hard to...

Bolton Valley, VT 18APR2010 Today I headed back for a morning session at Bolton to check out last night’s new snow. I’d say the snow level only dropped down to somewhere in the 1,500’ range last night, but it was enough to whiten up everything in the valley from 2,000’ on up with a new round...

Bolton Valley, VT 17APR2010 This morning I found another 0.80 inches of liquid in the rain gauge, which represents the 24-hour total since yesterday morning and brings the event totals at this location (elevation 495’) to 0.3” snow/1.32” liquid. It did snow here for a bit in the morning, but...

Bolton Valley, VT 16APR2010 Snowfall came into the area last night, and accumulating snow reached down even into the Winooski Valley. The ground was whitened in the yard this morning, and as of my 6:00 A.M. report we’d picked up 0.3 inches of snow and 0.52 inches of liquid at the house (495’)...

It's a monstrous half pipe. On smaller half pipes, I've been comfortable getting up and above the rim, but I've never even made it to the rim in that thing. According to the information on Stowe's website, the walls are 18 feet tall (for reference, the walls of the recent Olympic half pipe...

Bolton Valley, VT 11APR2010 Clouds built in on Saturday evening, and the forecast showed the potential for a repeat of the snow we’d seen Friday night into Saturday morning. I checked the temperatures atop Mt. Mansfield, and they were about 10 degrees warmer than when the previous day’s...

On Friday night it snowed a bit in the Greens (and even some of the lower valleys around here), so we headed up to Stowe on Saturday to check it out. We found about 2 to 3 inches of medium weight powder at the 3,600’ level, which was more than enough for really nice turns on the upper part of...