Recent content by Zermatt

Ouch. Glad I skied Saturday morning. I left Manchester around 9am and it was cold but blue bird skies. Quickly got into a thick overcast for the rest of the drive back to CT.

My post had nothing to do with the snow quantity. Sorry you didn’t get it.

What Killington thinks spring skiing should look like versus actual spring skiing in New England.

I’m not denying climate change one bit but the main factor in opening and closing dates is the willingness to throw away money. In the 1990s money was not a factor, today it is.

Really? I hope it obliterates the housing market in ski areas and possibly the ski areas themselves including mega passes. The minimum price for a condo in downtown Jackson, WY should not be $3 million. In the meantime I’ll keep skiing in Europe.

What should I expect for trail count and lifts for this weekend?

Here’s my eclipse video from Newport, VT at 2.5x normal speed. I like the way it turned out.

Prominences. According to the people next to us they were huge. They were so bright my wife thought we weren’t in totality. They seemed to drown out the corona a bit.

We ended up in Newport, VT for my second total eclipse. This time the whole family got to see it. No need to describe it because IYKYK, otherwise too bad. Took 9.5 hours to get from Newport to SW CT and it was easily the happiest traffic jam I’ve ever been in. Honestly at times it seemed like...

That was a metaphor.... I don't remember if it was really 100% open in 1997 but right now I'd consider it effectively 100% open.

Me about four weeks ago chatting with someone on Needles Eye: “I remember when Killington was 100% open in mid April in 1997, that is never going to happen again…”

Travel vouchers are the obvious choice for the airline but when the s$:t gets real they start handing out checks or cash like instruments. A forced bump, which never happens is compensation in real money.

Where billboards are banned but leaving years of trash in your front yard is just fine.

It’s the hour plus of reduced solar radiation before the eclipse that will freeze everything they are worried about. Not 3 minutes of dusk.

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