ss20
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Meanwhile, in Vail...
5 feet in two weeks.
5 feet in two weeks.
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Smellytele
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Luckily I never plan to ski around Christmas. I do get out but it is on an on-call basis. Late December early Jan is always questionable. i have had better luck with late Nov/ early Dec.
Where is this picture from? Surely not Vail. That looks to be closer to fifteen feet than five
ss20
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It's not Vail, but it conveyed the point across :-D
Yeah, but seriously. Where is that photo from. I think I want to move there. :lol:
abc
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The way the calender works, the holiday falls relatively early in the season. So the risk is rather high. It just can't be helped. The new weather pattern doesn't help.
steamboat1
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Hate to break the news to you but this is nothing new. Same goes for Washington Birthday week. More times than not the weather & skiing sucks in the northeast during those time periods. My first trip to QC 20 years ago during Washington birthday week was because there was no snow in New England. There was however plenty of snow in QC so our family posse of nine went. I felt bad for the families that spent the whole week at our ski club in VT. We saw them before we left & again on our return to VT. VT. was brown, QC was buried.
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Smellytele
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I have always had great luck with the last week of Feb/first week of March in Northern New England. (I probably just jinxed my week off trip for this year). Over the past 10 years anyway. I have had +20" days at Cannon, great days at Wildcat and in the MWV area. I have hit +15" in Southern VT (Magic, Stratton, Bromley). Just always seems to be good coverage and weather.
Agreed. It's uncanny how poor the conditions usually are for the holiday week. We had been lucky '10, '11 and '12. Oh well.
Tin
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The two weeks at the end of December have become the time when my body heals and my liver gets a bruising. The next seven days look dull.
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Bostonian
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At least it's cold to make snow for the next week...
Just looking at Lincoln, NH's forecast - it doesn't get above 32 until next Sunday during the day. Not ideal, but better than the 40's and 50's.
Just looking at Lincoln, NH's forecast - it doesn't get above 32 until next Sunday during the day. Not ideal, but better than the 40's and 50's.
VTKilarney
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I think that the sense of disappointment this year is due to the better much than average skiing prior to the thaw.
Cannonball
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It's snowing lightly in Lincoln right now.
St. Bear
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For me, it's the bleak outlook for the next 1-2 weeks. I was fine with the thaw, pining my hopes on a storm this week, but now it's looking marginal, and possibly even a rain event. That's what's causing me to hit the bottle.
steamboat1
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Not that it happens often but I can remember several years where the skiing in early Dec. was some of the best skiing for the whole season. I just hope this year is not one of those years.
dlague
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We have had one of our best starts to the season this year. This past weekend was a bit of a let down due to better conditions earlier as everyone is saying. Last year at this time we had decent conditions as well before the January let down (thaw) - here is to hoping that this year is is a few weeks early and the cold will stick around for the rest of the season. Right now they are predicting and ice event for Sunday which blows!
ScottySkis
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I hear snowy ridge in Tug hill NY might get lake Maybe another day thei r
steamboat1
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I'm not seeing that at all. Highs over the weekend are predicted to be only in the mid 20's & that's in the valleys, colder on the mountains I'm sure. After that it's predicted to get even colder next week. Didn't see any major storms on the horizon but with the temps mountains with the capacity will be able to blow massive amounts of snow. Those without the capacity will be sucking wind.
I kinda remember Christmas week last year was a torch.... Heavy r@!n !! Totally sucked and I was happy to be in Steamboat. Wish I was there now too ! Guess I'll be happy skiing groomers for a while !
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