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Date(s) Skied: 2/16/2011 Resort or Ski Area: The Trap Dike. Mt. Colden, NY Conditions: Powder, dense windslab Trip Report: Ben Peters and I skied the Trap Dike route on (in?) Mt. Colden NY recently. It was a thrilling experience, and one that I've pined for for years. The conditions...

Does anyone know if Bolton Valley typically keeps the Wilderness lift closed weekdays? I follow their snow report fairly regularly, and this is my observation, but I was wondering if anyone who is at the mountain regularly could clue me in if this is common knowledge. Thanks!

Date(s) Skied: January 10, 2011 Resort or Ski Area: Stowe Conditions: Powder Trip Report: We lucked out big time this week with a round of upslope snow in Northern Vermont salvaging a storm that mostly treated the southern parts of New England to a fresh snowfall. Mount Mansfield...

Date(s) Skied: 12.19.2010 Resort or Ski Area: Mt Washington Conditions: Occidental Powder Trip Report: We went and skied absolute cold smoke blower pow high above an undercast today. The prettiest day I've ever skied by far. Snow conditions were surreal. I'll likely never to my dieing...

Powder Powder Powder. edit: Full tr is now up! Just click the pic above ^^^^^^^^

Date(s) Skied: Friday evening October 22nd, and Saturday October 23rd. Resort or Ski Area: Top of the West Coast of New England Conditions: Powder on a supportive styrafoam base and/or normal White Ribbon of Death conditions Trip Report: On Friday October 22, 2010 I got official word...

Date(s) Skied: 10/15,16,17 Resort or Ski Area: Middlebury College Snow Bowl and Mount Mansfield Conditions: SNOW in OCTOBER! (do I really need to be more specific? ;) ) Trip Report: We spent three days chasing the result of the monster Nor'easter of October 2010 in Vermont. The details of...

Lionel just finished putting together his winter outlook. Besides giving the analogues a thorough look over in order to determine what this winter might hold, he supposedly also spent some time pouring libations of mead with ULLR himself, doing "investigative forecast work" as he calls it with...

Date(s) Hiked: June, July, August 2010 Trails(s) Hiked: Many herdpaths through Vermont to waterfalls and swimming holes. Total Distance: Many miles, but never many at once... Difficulty: Most are easy, but all require some delicate scrambling at the actual swimming holes. Conditions: Wet and...

Date(s) Skied: April 28, 2010 Resort or Ski Area: Stowe/Mount Mansfield, Vermont Conditions: POWDER! Trip Report: Well, what can we say? We had a really great day on Wednesday skiing around our usual lines at Stowe. Click any of the photos below to see the rest and to read the TR (there...

Date(s) Skied: 4/11/2010, 4/14/2010, 4/18/2010, 4/19/2010, 4/20/2010 Resort or Ski Area: Mount Washington Great Gulf, West Side, and Stowe Nosedive Area Conditions: POWDER!!! WOOO HOOO!!! Trip Report: The entire FamousInternetSkiers.com crew, except for Porter, who has a boo-bo, and...

Resort or Ski Area: Mounts Lafayette, Adams IV, and Jefferson Conditions: Corn Snow Trip Report: We went poking around several places that don't see alot of traffic before the big melt. In particular we were interested in skiing these three lines called "the sisters" The trip report is...

Date(s) Skied: 3.27.2010 Resort or Ski Area: Mount Washington, NH Conditions: Icy ascent. Powder/wind packed powder descent Trip Report: Sometimes the temperature is below zero, the wind is howling, the skin track is icy, and the forecast is grim. Nonetheless, if there is one thing in...

Hi all. Haven't posted in here in a little while because alot of our recent TRs on FIS have been vague and lacking location details... which in my understanding isn't really what people come to AZ for. Well, this TR isn't really any different--location is still disguised--but I figured a few of...

Date(s) Skied: Just before the open Resort or Ski Area: Mad River Glen, UT Conditions: Wasatch Cold Smoke Trip Report: An historic band of lake effect snow came hurtling off Lake Ontario, and temporarily transported Mad River Glen to Utah. We got lucky, and were on hand to ski it. Click...

Date(s) Skied: 12.10-13.2009 Resort or Ski Area: Mount Mansfield Labyrinth Conditions: Twisty turny and confusing Trip Report: Before the epic snows came that led Mad River Glen to temporarily be located in the state of Utah (TR on that coming VERY soon), Mount Mansfield served up it's...

Date(s) Skied: 11.28 to 29.2009 Resort or Ski Area: Stowe Conditions: Windbuff, Wind affected, Small pockets of powder, Thin Cover Trip Report: Our weather team worked hard to help us find the snow we’ve all be dreaming about, and it payed off big. From the first signal of a major storm in...

Date(s) Skied: 12.3.2009 Resort or Ski Area: White Mountain National Forest Ski Area Conditions: Slabby windbuff, with softer pockets Trip Report: So my good friends and co-FIS-ers, Sam and Allen headed over to Mount Washington on Wednesday leaving me relegated to my last day of teaching...

Date(s) Skied: October 23-24, 2009 Resort or Ski Area: Le Massif Conditions: Powder & Wind Affected turning to crusty by 11am Trip Report: (it's all written in good fun...none of us are actual drug addicts... powder though is another thing) We visited our neighbors-to-the-north when we...

If you're thinking about making some turns this weekend, I wrote up a quick summary of the conditions we found this week around VT and NH this week, as well as a summary of reports from around the north country over at FIS... Hopefully you find it useful in making your sliding decisions this...