Does it always piss hot rain right before or on Christmas in eastern ski country or does if just seem that way?

[Kingslug20]

Their site says 5 inches but heavy winds and 30 below windchills....
I'm out

 

[deadheadskier]

No power at Gunstock now. The plan was to open back up after closing yesterday but…

Two Saturdays in a row. I got screwed last Saturday with the power outage at Gunstock. Should have checked the snow report before driving up

 

[Smellytele]

Just gonna skin up pats today to see what conditions are. May ski there on Monday.

 

[ctdubl07]

And it's looking like another warm up next wknd with possible rain. This is now our new normal for Xmas-NYs....should just pin this thread.

 

[Kingslug20]

Bolton valley...

 

[John9]

And it's looking like another warm up next wknd with possible rain. This is now our new normal for Xmas-NYs....should just pin this thread.

It looks like the January Thaw came a week earlier, hoping for a great MLK long weekend.

 

[KustyTheKlown]

Good decision is good.

 

[Kingslug20]

Hmmmm

 

[Kingslug20]

Had a fleeting thought of tremblant for the weekend...weather report squashed that.

 

[ThatGuy]

Weekend rain and temps in the mid 50’s next week
I’ll be in Idaho second week of January, hopefully the weather is better there…

 

[Kingslug20]

Spring skiing in jan...oh joy...

 

[abc]

My pass is blackout anyway. So I’ve planned other activities for this week…

But, despite the rain and (thanks to?) the ‘flash freeze’, most places held onto their snow from the last storm, albeit all turned into ice. Still, with clever snow farming and grooming, the snow surfaces ‘regenerate’ surprisingly well on top of the ice base. No more bare dirt or grass poking through…

I’m talking about cross country ski resorts. But I have reason to believe downhill mountains have similar results. Those with good snow making should come out pretty good.

So, by Monday, or better yet Tuesday, a lot of the resorts are back to decent condition from what I heard. Wednesday would be even better. Today, despite the 45 degree temperature, the snow surface was actually cool enough to NOT be a pool of slush. Just soft carv-able snow. But god, falling means hitting the solid ice underneath. Let’s just say I learn pretty fast to avoid falling at all cost (but not fast enough nonetheless, as the bruises on my thigh evidences)

All in all, I got in a few good days of skiing (cross country). Still, I would have been pretty depressed had I not planned other things for the holiday.

 

[joshua segal]

Spring skiing in jan...oh joy...

Interesting how every year, people talk about spring skiing in January as unusual. There is a reason there is a term, "January thaw". It is an exceptional year when we don't have spring skiing for part of January.

 

[NYDB]

this is the rain during Christmas week thread. someone should start the annual January thaw thread.

have fun in Idaho @ThatGuy.

 

[jimmywilson69]

by all accounts the Christmas week has been pretty good from PA on up North.

I'll take the soft cream cheese snow I skied today vs hard pack any day, but I'm not overly picky

 

[Kingslug20]

We dodged it last year...

 

[Kingslug20]

The snow gods hate us...they all moved west.

 

[eatskisleep]

Anything positive in the long term forecast?

 

[Kingslug20]

Wednesday night after the rain..cold front moves in.
Hopefully tomorrow morning stowe and SB will have a little snow falling...for a little while..

 

[snoseek]

I'm just gonna ski in the rain because at this point I am way below average on days and I got the good new goretex