loafer89
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If you could keep me posted on how much snow Burke honestly gets out of the backlash, that would be appreciated. I see that as of today all of Burke's glades are closed.
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How much snow do you have in your backyard???
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If you could keep me posted on how much snow Burke honestly gets out of the backlash, that would be appreciated. I see that as of today all of Burke's glades are closed.
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Even the piles from the plows are almost gone..
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Our piles won't be gone until May. They are enormous.
One reason they stopped letting the City of Buffalo dump snow in the lakes and river is that the plows contained a lot more garbage than salt and sand. Animal carcasses, furniture and even a small car (I believe it was a Ford Pinto) was once found in the snowpiles.
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billski
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yeah and they were itty bitty, from frontloader work, usually on the shady side of a hill or something. Very little snow in them, but still snow. May 1st counts!
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When I lived in Bozeman MT...we got dumped on a few days before Memorial day..
You might be right..I'm guessing a few more New England ski areas might join Nelsap with smaller crowds for Presidents week..
Have you thought about seeing a doctor? Sorry, wrong piles...........
We've got nothing left in the mid hudson valley. Probably had an 8-12 in snowpack, including a couple of heavy ice layers. All gone in the past week.
Good thing I don't live in ski country. Hope you are faring better up north, although some reports I've seen are pretty grim.
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It must be bad at Mad River Glen..they are closed today as well with no live webcam image..I imagine the base of General Starks mountain is pretty bare.
from_the_NEK
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MRG's cam is up but there are a lot of bare spots under the single chair :-(
from_the_NEK
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It is pretty typical to close the glades during a thaw. That way the soft snow doesn't get all scraped off and when it re-freezes, the snoice will still be covering the pointy stuff. I'm hoping they will be able to reopen the glades this weekend but they will probably be icy chutes (unless we get at least 6 inches of new snow by then). I'll keep you posted.
Johnskiismore
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About 4 inches as of 2/12/9
davidhowland14
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wow. only 4 inches in woodstock? there was a solid couple of feet only two weeks ago. damn. that's depressing.
from_the_NEK
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Only an inch fell on the backside of the storm last night
However, I still have 14-15 inches at my house. In uncompacted snow areas there isn't a glaze crust like you would get from freezing rain but rather a hard dense layer of surface snow on top of 8 inches is fairly soft unconsolidated snow. The temps only just made it to 40 degrees with minimal wind north of St J yesterday which really helped with snow preservation.
Ungroomed ski trails are going to be "fast". I can't see the actual trails from my house but they should still be well covered. The glades are going to be dicey. The coverage is probably okay but the surface is going to be hard and fast. Not great conditions for tree skiing. I think the groomers are going to ski pretty nice. With natural snow trails being marginal.
Yea everybody lost a bit but I think the NEK actually faired okay.
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I'm down to about 50% bare ground, mostly in the sunny and southern sloping areas. Still a few inches in the shady spots and where snow tends to drift and of course piles and snow banks. At least we didn't go totally bare. That base layer near the surface was basically solid ice.
hammer
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At home, there's bare grass over where the septic tank is, and dog walk areas in the back yard are down to a layer of ice. Otherwise, the yard is still covered with a bunch of crunchy snow.
One good thing about the warmup was that I was finally able to clear the thick slab of ice off of my north-facing front steps...before then I couldn't even break it up with a yard shovel.
One good thing about the warmup was that I was finally able to clear the thick slab of ice off of my north-facing front steps...before then I couldn't even break it up with a yard shovel.
psyflyer
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Burke Mt faired exceptionally well. Both Wednesday and Thursday were good solid semi-slushy days on the slopes, nothing too nasty just some plain old snow-carving fun. Today things were much better having gotten about 3 inches across the board on the Mountain it made riding a pleasure today, the mountain was dead all throughout the week, although today was busier than most fridays.
from_the_NEK
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Great to hear! Hopefully all this talk about "no lift lines at burke" doesn't resutl in everyone in New England showing up there. I'll be there tomorrow morning until 1 or 2. Maybe again on Sunday afternoon or Monday.
ERJ-145CA
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0" it's all grass except for a 14" pile of dirty snow near the end of my driveway, that pile used to be about 26 inches.
billski
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we're still 100% white, but it's about 6-10" of total ice. Nothing moves. Dog will have fun tomorrow. Well, maybe not. Not a single snowman this year. First so dry it wouldn't pack, then it pours while we sleep, freezes while we work. Good work for the orthopedic surgeon coming up....
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