I’m not going into depth on this one, but it looks like it could be a real banger for the entire West Coast.. Our buddy Chase is living in Mammoth and working at the resort, not only is he a skier but he’s also a UNH – Recreation Management Alumni. Enjoy Chase!
Weather UPDATE
On another note, Stowe’s webcam shows some pretty sweet coverage from last night. Reports said that the night before (Wednesday) Stowe recieved 3″ total up top. It looks as though there’s at least an inch to the base but as we’ve already seen this season, there could be much more at the mid-point and significantly more up top. It’s almost 11am as I type and the mountain is still socked in pretty good….with another inch or two predicted at the base we’ll be planning on taking a trip up there this weekend — still deciding on which day.
*Stay tuned for some developments on the Thanksgiving weekend storm.
Stowe webcam shot from today…
Pretty entertaining.
Exerpt from the NOAA forecast at Squaw for this weekend….
“ONE FINAL NOTE…THE OVERALL PATTERN IS KNOWN TO PRODUCE SOME OF
THE HIGHEST SNOWFALL TOTALS ON RECORD IN THE SIERRA AND WESTERN
NEVADA. SO AS THE EVENT UNFOLDS…LIQUID FORECAST AMOUNTS MAY
SLOWLY INCREASE AND THUS ANY OF THE TOTALS ABOVE COULD END UP
BEING HIGHER“.
Storm Update | Thursday 3:30pm
Well we aren’t going to get the snow I had anticipated, but it still looks like there could be a few inches in the higher peaks of the Greens and Whites by Monday morning. I’ve attached an image of the Stowe report for 3,389ft. We shall see, cross your fingers and make some sort of sacrifice to the snow gods this evening.
Check out Famousinternetskiers.com for more detailed information and a live North East weather feed.
So Sunday River opened today and they’re the first open on the East Coast 4 seasons in a row. They’re actually the first resort open for the season in the country.
I’m gonna go ahead and assume they opened today just in case some other heavy hitter EC resort opened for tomorrow (cough cough, Killington). So Kmart got swindled but I don’t think they were planning on opening up anyways. More importantly Killington got a pummeling this afternoon for about 2 hours. It looked like they got covered pretty well up top and we’re headed up in a few hours to do a little moonlit skinning.
Enough babble heres some stoke, we’ll have our own posted tomorrow evenin’.
With all of the Nor’easter talk this week we’ve been looking forward to getting back on the snow. Got up at 4am today with Lucas and headed North on VT-89.
We heard that Killington still had snow to the parking lot but only 15″ up top and we heard that Stowe got hammered with 25″ inches at the summit but there was a 1,500ft snowline (down-hike on the way out). After a long discussion we came to the agreement that Stowe would be a better choice. More choices, better terrain and a more relaxed earn-your-own-turns and skinning policy.
Stowe has some seriously savage terrain above the Gondi summit. We didn’t head up today because the coverage just isn’t good enough yet but we’re heading back up as soon as the pow comes. Here’s a few shots from today, unfortunately the snow was pretty bad, super wet and pretty sun baked, video to be posted later this week.
This season’s first Nor’easter delivered, waves and snow. Some reports in the Mad River Valley say 24″ at the higher peaks and that’s where we’re headed tomorrow. We also got some serious swell, these are from Friday.
Weather Update | Nor’easter
9:30pm Update : This shot was taken before dark at the bottom of the triple at Kmart. Gonna be a good weekend. http://yfrog.com/1adrhozj
Killington tweeted this morning with 8+ inches at Killington Peak, elevation 4,241 and 3″ at 2,500 feet, other reports say 4″ at the top of Stowe, and Accuweather correspondents say Mt. Washington is in full on blizzard with over a foot of blowing snow. The best part is, it’s just getting started. Stratton, Sugarbush and MRG also have all reported snow.
It looks as though we may see this season’s first Nor’ Easter this weekend…..don’t hold me to that though. The Catskills could see some action as well as the Adirondaks and Northern Greens, by action I mean snowflakes. As long as the temperatures cooperate we’re gonna be doing some touring…I’ve added a few weather links:
alpine-live.com 