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Wearing green for half price tickets & thanking the luck of the Irish for the storm that allowed this magic place to re-open. Cold morning with bluebird skies - started a facemask day but warmed up enough for quality deck time after lunch. Packed powder base - the ungroomed runs with soft...

2 for 1 at Cannon. Cold - windy with occasional flurries - 4th facemask day in a row. Low clouds with flat light. The runs up top a mix of packed powder and large drifts with occasional wind scoured spots. Only the most hearty did much skiing up top. The front 5 were left ungroomed with...

Staying in Lincoln, NH for 3 days. Snow started around 7:00am. Drive down to the hill was slow but uneventful. By first chair there was already 2" on the ground at the base, twice that on top. Cold, face mask day with heavy snow and strong winds. Light extremely flat at times. The snow...

Timing is everything... Drove up to Burke from Lincoln, NH to take advantage of the 3 for 1 ticket deal. The storm just got in the way of existing plans... Interstates empty and fairly clean. Got to the hill early and dumped the stragglers to catch first chair from the bottom - heading for...

Second day of spring skiing in the Eastern Townships of Quebec - Owls Head. Overnight rain had left everything soft and carve-able. Morning mist/clouds finally burned off enough by noon to provide some visibility on the runs. Lots of bare patches and wash outs, certainly most Ontario resorts...

St Patricks Day - $17 lift tickets. Spring conditions with early morning cloud/mist burning off to warm, sunny skies by 11am. Snow soft & granular with bare patches keeping you on your toes. Still, for $17 I'm not about to complain, especially with ski-on lifts. (Original plan was to ski MRG...

For the 4th year in a row the siren song of NY state ski day, Thursday (2016-01-28) with $24 tickets for Whiteface, lured me into what became an Eastern multi-day trip. I was able to combine free "Air Miles" lift tickets for Bromont, Quebec for Monday (2016-01-25) with "Roll Back the Clock Day"...

Blue Mountain is the largest ski area in Ontario. The general layout is that most runs start with a gradual run down to a steep/steeper/"this is serious" headwall section (about a third of the run) and then gradually reduce in slope to a flat out run towards the lifts. The "mountain" spreads...

Day 2 of 5... We had our choice of 4 ski areas in central New Hampshire offering $17 lift tickets on St. Patrick's Day and I think we lucked out choosing Wildcat. Weather called for near freezing with a "wintry mix" but aside for some brief ice pellets, we got mostly light slow all day. What...

Day 1 of 5, Eastern "Spring 2015" trip. The "wintry mix" called for in the Eastern Townships had changed to 3-4" of snow the day before and then gotten cold overnight. The day started with facemasks & real packed powder. Mont Orford is a fun mountain, (actually 3) the most challenging in the...

After years of skiing areas around it, I finally made it to Smuggs - another Eastern 2000'+ mountain off the list. The day started in Plattsburgh with a pretty amazing ferry ride - strong winds pushing breakers over the bow all the way across Lake Champlain. Line of the day goes to the lady...

Once again the siren song of a Discover NY Ski Day discount lift ticket gave me an excuse to ski Whiteface, although the price doubled from last year to $24. First day of a 3 day eastern trip started with ridiculous cold. The upper mountain was closed after overnight wind chills of around -60...

Day 2 of 6, St. Patricks Day - $17 lift ticket specials at both MRG (must be wearing green) and Mt. Ellen - plan A is for MRG and if I show up and the place is packed then plan B is Mt. Ellen. Got to the hill around 9:30 having taken the ferry across from Plattsburgh and the parking lot was...

Day 1 of a 6 day trip. Super Sunday promotion for St. Patrick's Day - $40 lift tickets. Crowded (for Whiteface) so I spent most of the day avoiding the busy gondola line up. The temps pretty cold - getting sick of skiing wearing a face mask. Trail reports from the hill had 2" of snow over...

Day 5 of a 6 day trip. I usually don't consider skiing southern Vermont hills but after speaking with one of the "Ski Vermont" reps at the Toronto Ski show this past fall she suggested that if I really liked MRG then I should give Magic a try. Turns out they have a $15 Thursday lift ticket...

Last day of a 6 day trip - seems like I'd saved the best for last. (planned - Ski & Ride with the Point day - 1/2 price lift ticket.) Driving up I95 from Magic the day before I could see Mt. Mansfield shrouded in snow in the distance. Stayed on the road close to the mountain (Northern Lights...

Another NY discount day - Thursday March 6th. Gore & Whiteface $24 - various others $12. Link below... http://www.iskiny.com/ski-deals/celebrate-winter-day

Day 2 of the mini-trip east. An early ferry ride from Plattsburgh got me to Sugarbush by 9:30 am for Ski & Ride with the Point day. Windy, with snow falling. The main (Super Bravo) and top (Heavens Gate) lifts were on wind hold so I started my day on the North Lynx side. Full marks to the...

I get lots of e-mails from resorts advertising deals on lifts but I just couldn't resist the siren song of a $12 ticket on NY State ski day. (2014-01-09) The morning was spent skiing Little Whiteface since the summit quad was on wind hold. Actually, with the crisp morning air, riding the...

My favorite mountain in the east, well over a foot of snow in the past 48 hrs (2"-3" inches overnight) and half price lift tickets thanks to Ski & Ride with The Point day. Certainly the most pleasant, laid-back vibe I'd ever felt at Stowe. Conditions so good that everyone on each chair /...