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Haven't posted in a long time. Fantastic day at Kmart, too bad it doubled as a wake for the former eastern giant's season. Another record early closing and this time amidst some of the most letter perfect cover in recent memory. Granted most eastern areas closed with thick wall to wall cover but...

What a treat. They said 5" and I'd heard about more in the area so got there first thing. Only had the Canyon and a N Face lift running but that was enuff! On the way up the front I'm looking at the woods with brown showing and thinking "No way 5 inches!" but the N Face said otherwise! Easily...

Definitely the best opening day in memory. I'm sure Kmart would've rather not opened but was sorta shamed into it by the fact everyone knew they had 30"+ of snow and Wildcat beat them to opening. Still, I give them credit for getting virtually the entire K basin open (not that it was tough given...

No no just kidding, wasn't there today!! Sorry for the "what the???" moment, just couldn't resist a passing note that this would very likely have been an Oct 1 opening back in the good ol' days (not all that long ago, really). After a couple of freezing nights such as we've just had the faithful...

Hiked up today, a couple of laps on the "footwall", which is holding up beautifully, all the way up to just above the lip at the top. The dogleg to skiers left is a little more pronounced but the connection is still wide and thick. The headwall at the top is still large but the flatter middle...

Funny that the below post mentioned deciding between hiking Jay or Kmart Thurs, as it happens I did the latter! Judging from your pics I got the better cover but hey a day of skiing is etc.... I went up figuring the middle section would be thin, if not broken, but that I would at least hike/ski...

I could've posted this in the previous thread but figured it was worthy of a stand-alone note in passing. Marc's article on the Kmart closing hit the nail on the head re ASC cost cutting, but (unlike Mt Snow at Easter) they didn't exactly end up closing with the stated "seamless cover"! <BR>...

Haven't posted many reports lately since I usually ski the same places and pick my days carefully enough that most reports would read the same, but I just had to check in with this. <BR> <BR> Faithful homey that I am, I went up to check out Mt. Snow yesterday. I know Snow has a bit of a...

Killington just changed their site to day they will open tommorrow, Monday 11/10, at noon. Most areas are blowing snow and Kmart will beat them open by a little bit but this just isn't as big a deal as it used to be. It's too bad their policy has changed to pass up the early opportunities, and I...

Am I missing something, or is there no way to bookmark a URL directly to the current page of discussion headers, as there used to be? It seems I have to go to the homepage and then step through at least 6 seperate clicks (skip intro>contents>liftlines>eastern US>april 2003 to Present) to get to...

Two gorgeous days on Superstar. The previous Kmart review sums it up pretty well. Apparently they started Monday skiing on/off lift but by the time I got there mid-day we were carrying the skis. Had to walk down the top 1/3 or so of the headwall, then snow was continuous until a gap at the...

Haven't seen a Mt Snow report here yet this year. I've already had many fine days there in this epic early-season snow year, but Sat was the best yet. <BR> <BR> Watched it snow all day/night Fri with Mt Snow right in the bull's eye of the predicted accumulations and I knew I had to get it while...

Kmart received over a foot of snow earlier this week, this on top of 8" or more of natural (and lots of snowmaking) over the previous two weeks, so went up to sample the wares (was last up 10/29). The snow mostly fell Tues night and Wed. From what I heard today, it was powder first thing Wed...

Killington waited to open so they could take advantage of almost a full 24hr/day week of snowmaking and it paid off in more terrain and deeper snow than *ever* seen before on an opener. No pickup truck rides this time, they were doing about the same thing we saw a couple of weeks into last...

Drove up to Kmart for some June turns today. They closed Sat and I considered going but decided that I'd just as soon hike up and have the place to myself. <BR> <BR> I take back what I said before about them possibly being able to last another week. Superstar is toast, with the long flat...

Found the exact same atmospheric conditions at Kmart today as I did last Fri: unstable airmass(es) meant generally cloudy and humid, but with a surprising amount of sunny breaks...and the occasional light passing sprinkle (nothing that got one any wetter than the sweat worked up by skiing tho...

They were reporting 2-4" at 7:30 am, and there was at least that when I got there around noon, and still squalling. There had been steady light to moderate rain almost all the way up and I was getting worried but damn if it didn't turn to winter at the top of the Kmart access road (from about...

Killington got their advertised foot of snow over the last week or so, but don't expect calf-deep powder. Most of the storms wavered around the freezing mark and changed over from snow>sleet>freezing rain>rain numerous times. As a result, there's a real smorgasbord of conditions incl wet powder...

Watched the Intellicast all day/night yesterday and could see the blue/snow over central VT for most of that time. This morning the Kmart report said 4-5" new. "Damn the luck, can't go", I tell myself, "Why did it have to come when I've got so much stuff to do to prepare for this upcoming...

Sorry this is a bit 'after the fact'..... <BR> <BR> Fri 4/12: Well, the fat lady was doing her sound check at Snow. They'd announced a closing of Sunday 4/14 (thank Ullr for that 2 feet in March or it would've been way earlier!) so I went up on the Friday to get some last weekday-pass tracks...