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Where: Belleayre Ski Center When: Saturday April 5, 2014 Conditions: Top: refrozen corn, frozen granular, death cookies. Middle: Soft buttery turns to heavy wet snow. Bottom: Slush. The exception: Lower Cathedral Brook somehow had beautiful snow that skied like packed powder. Weather...

Where: Ski Butternut, MA When: April 2, 2014 Afternoon Conditions: 60 degrees, mostly sunny--corn, mash potatoes, slush and water skiing I love days like this. Nearly empty slopes, but the people that were there were wearing big smiles, sunglasses, tee-shirts or sweatshirts. The way they...

Where: Pico Mountain, VT When: Sunday March 23rd, 2014 Condition: Top coat of fresh snow, packed powder, pockets of fresh & tracked powder The trip report is a little delayed but I was pretty busy Sunday night and today. Also, I was enjoying the awesome trip reports that everyone gave for...

I'll be at Pico on Sunday. Got a good deal on Liftopia for $37. Weather report looks favorable for fresh snow (will probably be wet snow, but I won't complain). I've never been there before, looking forward to the adventure.

Where: Bromley Mountain, Peru, VT When: Sunday, 3-9-2014 Conditions: Loud in the morning, soft after 1pm It was the perfect day to be at Bromley. Sunny and low 30s. In the morning it was really windy at the peak, but that died down around 11am. The west side of the mountain did not ski...

Where? Gore Mountain, North Creek, NY When? 3-4-14 Mardi Gras! Birthday! (10:15a to 3p) Conditions: Hardpack, Loose Granular, Packed Powder, Ice. First time at gore in about 13 years. If I had realized how close it was I wouldn't have waited so long, only 2h50m door to door. Gotta hand...

Where: Berkshire East When: Sunday, February 16, 2014 Conditions: Packed Powder, Hints of Untracked Powder, Machine Groomed, etc... Had a free pass and decided today would be a good day to use it. I drove up the back way, 8 N to 8A N, forgetting that once you get on the last leg of 8A there...

Where: Magic When: February 9, 2014 Conditions, Powder, Packed Powder, Chopped Powder, Powbumps, Tali was firm with a few death loaves and cookies but soft snow on the sides. First off, thank you AZ for the Magic passes! It was my first trip to Magic this season. Red chair was still down...

Where: Mohawk Mountain, CT When: 2-5-14 Conditions: :snow: Got there 1/2 hour after opening and barely any tracks on the hill. Snow was mostly light but I'd occasionally hit heavy pockets. So happy they didn't groom everything flat (which they often do). Skied 7 runs, then I had to go to...

Where: Mohawk Mountain When: January 17th, 2014 Conditions: Firm but softening This was my first not skiing natural snow this season. It took me a few runs to remember how to really dig into the turns. They really blasted their trails with snow early on so they had plenty of base to...

Ski Area: Magic Mountain, VT Date: April 6, 2013 Conditions: Firm in the morning, Spring in the afternoon Drove up Friday night to White River to see The Fixx at Tupelo Music Hall (which was awesome) and planned to take advantage of the $19.37 ticket at Pico on Saturday. Woke up Saturday...

Resort: Middlebury College Snow Bowl Date Skied: March 4, 2013 Conditions: Fresh tracks all day. No, seriously. Feeling beaten up by Stowe the day before, I decided to pass on MRG. I drove to Mt. Ellen instead only to find that the only lift spinning was the Inverness chair. I drove to...

Resort: Stowe Mountain Resort Date Skied: Sunday March 3, 2013 Conditions: Powder, New Snow, Packed Powder and Sticky stuff. Ever have one of those days where you can't quite pull yourself together? Well, that was my day at Stowe. That said, the snow on the upper mountain was nice and...

Mohawk Mountain, Cornwall CT 2-13-13 Conditions: Frozen granular, mostly groomed Quick morning session. Fast skiing and they let Wildwood bump up the whole way across! I got to practice bumps on the low angle middle section. It was scratch this morning but with temps rising, I bet it will...

Catamount Ski Area Hillsdale, NY/Egremont, MA Date: January 26, 2013 Conditions: Man-made packed powder Woke up late Saturday, so was going to bag the whole day and ski Sunday, but the non-skier said "Go, have fun!" I didn't need much more provocation. I was a little worried that Catamount...

Date Skied: January 6, 2013 Conditions: Variable upper mountain, MGPP lower mountain Trip Report: Got to sleep at a reasonable hour Saturday night, but ended up waking at 4:30am, the non-skier was not ready to leave until 6:50. Sunny drive up Route 22, but as soon as we crossed the...

Date: 12/15/2012 Mohawk Mountain CT Conditions: Manmade Took a quick 2 hour session at Mohawk. Skiing on three trails, Arrowhead, Pine and Nutmeg. This is my first time out this season, trying out my new boots, noticed a big difference. Mohawk made some quality snow in less than favorable...

Date(s) Skied: 3/15/12 Resort or Ski Area: Ski Sundown Conditions: Spring Trip Report: Overcast when I arrived at Noon, sunny after about 1pm. Bumps were soft on top, icy in the troughs when I started, but once the sun hit them they softened up all around. One warm-up run then spent...

Date(s) Skied: 3-4-12 Resort or Ski Area: Plattekill Mountain Conditions: MGLG, Hardpack, Trip Report: I had originally intended to ski at Belleayre, but after getting off to a late start (too much celebrating the night before) and getting to the mountain at 10:15, I could tell it was...

Plan is to ski at Belleayre tomorrow. I've never been but they have a ski free on your birthday deal, so I'll be taking advantage of that. PM or email emmaurice2 at aol dot com (I check the email on my phone) if you'll be around and want to take a run.