Recent content by shwilly

I am surprised that SR is back to "pretty decent groomer day" conditions on the trails that are open. Many trails are under the guns today. On trails without new snowmaking, it's...you know, pretty standard Eastern groomers, though with some dips, bumps, and obstacles that weren't there...

Sunday River getting crushed, too. The river itself is running high and Barker Brook is roaring. Looks like many of the groomers are holding up kind of OK so far, but everything without a big base is torched. Major patches around the base areas. Prior to this it's been decent groomer days this...

It wasn't terribly reassuring to read the top story in the Globe today. MA officially has 218 cases, but the story seems to count around 300 hospitalizations of suspected COVID patients in eastern MA. It's difficult to tell the real number or its rate of change right now.

It does look more like a rage quit than an unpaid bills situation. Hope he changes his mind! Things have been such a shit show lately, an entire forum getting nuked fits in with the week. Saturday was a wind hold day, though people were climbing and skiing White Heat all day. Yesterday was a...

For the foreseeable future our rare trips out West will be flying. I have a retirement fantasy of winterizing a small camper and spending all winter roaming around the Rockies and Sierras, wherever is good.

It's been years, but I always liked this one. Steep bumps, but seems to hold snow well.

The official name is the White Cap Quad, but everyone calls it Tempest.

My guess is that they view loading-related stoppages and slow downs on Tempest to be a major problem. I agree! It's a slow lift, but intimidating for beginners (and kids) on loading. It can stop multiple times on a single ride because of loading problems. If they think they could mitigate that...

Looking like a weekend to take a nice long run Saturday morning, schedule play dates for the kids, and catch up on some volunteer stuff that I uh signed up for but haven't done. Monday night's forecast calls for steady beer during the national championship game, so it's just as well that I...

Certain spots on the big groomers definitely get scrapey. How big the scrapey spots are and how quickly they get scraped depend on conditions and how much is open. Usually it's just specific spots, not everything. If the whole place is hardpack I quickly call it a day, but that almost never...

The limiting factor lapping SR today was lines, which were apocalyptic at the base of the Locke lift and bad at the midstation. The snow was good, particularly on top, and crowds on the trails weren't too bad. You could lap Sunday Punch top to bottom, but the lift line was really long. Hopefully...

Yeah. Bowling's weird because there's a max perfect score that isn't *that* far out of reach for mere mortals, but I get the impression that there are similar, multiple levels of unworldliness for most of the major sports. A great high school QB might even be able to throw the ball farther in...

Man, this brings back more memories than the average spam post. Manali and Vashisht are indeed tons of fun and a great jumping-off spot for treks in the surrounding mountains. I would love to go back that way some day.

For real. Has anyone ridden an 8-pack before? I've never seen a chair bigger than a 6-pack. I'd prefer a gondola/tram for 8 or more. I have to think most trail pods would be overwhelmed with the traffic from a high speed 8.

Hiking trail which apparently will be used as part of a half marathon course next month. I'd be very surprised if it's ever an on-map ski trail again. It requires too much snow and would get scraped off too quickly.