Smellytele
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Oops galoshes. You can bring some Hungarian goulash as well and eat it in your car and watch the rain.
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Does it always piss hot rain right before or on Christmas in eastern ski country or does if just seem that way?
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kingslug
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Reports are all over the place..8 to 12 inches, or rain and snow, or snow about an inch..or........
The weather channel...very optimistic!
The weather channel...very optimistic!
machski
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Yup, this is one of those storms to get in position, be prepared for and ride whatever ends up falling. Or bailing. No good indication how it will swing.
kingslug
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Sitting out the weekend..Platty for Monday..whatever falls.
machski
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Up at the river now. Probably decide tomorrow morning if I stay tomorrow night too or just head home. Depends how long I think the White will hang on Saturday morning.
Yea...I'll decide what I'm doing when I wake up Saturday morning and look at the snow report (and out my windows).
Smellytele
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May rebook at Bolton with indy pass but wife isn't going, just me a 2 sons.
KustyTheKlown
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i've got bolton sunday and magic monday booked. got a pcr test yesterday which should have a result tomorrow morning.
driving to rutland tomorrow evening and from rutland to bolton sunday morning should be interesting.
normally i take the taconic up but tomorrow is an 87 to 4 type of drive. and i think up to bolton is a 4>91>89 drive instead of 7, given weather.
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What location is this?
KustyTheKlown
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based on who posted it, probably sugarbush. but every major eastern ski weather site is now in general agreement that its an elevation dependent 8"-12"+ up and down the green mountain spine, with significantly less in the valleys.
Slidebrook87
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It’s Sugarbush. Pretty much what I always use to judge VT conditions. Killington is still 5-8 but TWC shows a mix and a high of 36 degrees.
abc
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Opensnow.com has more details.
It will snow, turn to rain briefly (how "brief" depends on latitude and altitude), then turn back to snow.
A net snow gain for most mountains.
But depending on where you go, Saturday may be a bit.....wet!
Should be good skiing Sunday & Monday for all.
It will snow, turn to rain briefly (how "brief" depends on latitude and altitude), then turn back to snow.
A net snow gain for most mountains.
But depending on where you go, Saturday may be a bit.....wet!
Should be good skiing Sunday & Monday for all.
Mount Ellen (Vermont) Weather Forecast (1244m)
Mount Ellen (Vermont), Green Mountains, Appalachians, United States Mountain weather forecast for 1244m. Detailed 6 day mountain weather forecast for climbers and mountaineers.
at 4000' all snow - most lifts may be on wind hold - up to 75MPH gusts expected. Good week for snow accumulation either way,
Mount Ellen (Vermont) Weather Forecast (1244m)
Mount Ellen (Vermont), Green Mountains, Appalachians, United States Mountain weather forecast for 1244m. Detailed 6 day mountain weather forecast for climbers and mountaineers.www.mountain-forecast.com
at 4000' all snow - most lifts may be on wind hold - up to 75MPH gusts expected. Good week for snow accumulation either way,
Yes...Wind holds are a strong possibility that not many people are talking about yet (but should be).
KustyTheKlown
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basically saturday isnt a good day. wind risks abound and possible flip to rain mid day. sunday and monday should be great.
i'm driving up tomorrow afternoon and sticking to the valleys as much as i can where they will only get 1-3".
i'm driving up tomorrow afternoon and sticking to the valleys as much as i can where they will only get 1-3".
I got out this afternoon finally after I was done working for my first turns of the season. I'll decide on tomorrow when I wake up in the morning. I'm definitely a bit concerned that I might end up staying in the condo all day if it is sloppy or wind holds (I don't need/want to deal with either of those on my 2nd day out). I'm hoping for the best though.
machski
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And not just Saturday but Sunday too. The calm will be overnight Saturday (figuresm why can we never have the calm during the ski day!!)
kingslug
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Will suck as I sit home watching weather reports but the east needs some snow. At the moment all I care about is Platt. And you can never get an accurate report for that place. Just have to show up.
abc
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Actually Platty stands to get something good. When I was skiing Platty, I looked at the forecast for the best case of Belleayre and/or Hunter. And that's usually what Platty gets.
This season, I'm not chasing first track of any sort. I'm too far from most mountains (not an early person to get out at 5am or anything like that). And I'm not comfortable staying in hotels. So it's just sloppy seconds, probably in the trees.
But sadly, I haven't had a single day yet. (missed the powder day at Hunter because the plow didn't come)
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