Day 132: April 3

I had to drop off the Chickadee at EHS this morning, so I decided to go see how the conditions were on Teardrop, because I didn't feel like riding lifts today and I wanted a bit of solo time in the mountains. I got to the deserted trailhead at 7:20 and it was 33F, but …

Day 125: March 27

To celebrate another milestone day, and because the conditions were perfect, John and I decided to go skin the Mansfield ridge and ski down one of the chutes near the Chin. We parked in the upper lot at Smuggs just before 9am, and it was 23F, but quickly warming in the spring sun. After making …

Day 93: Feb 20

I felt like going exploring today, so I decided to go see how the skiing was around the Butler Lodge trail on Mount Mansfield. I had been wondering about this for a while now, so I figured that it'd be a fun little adventure. It was 19F when I parked at the end of the …

Rainy days… Dec 3

After 20 days of skiing this season, it has been raining yesterday and this morning. Therefore, I decided to geek out with Matlab, and extract a few interesting charts about the snow pack on Mount Mansfield, Vermont's highest mountain (elevation 4393 ft, or 1339 m), which is where I ski most of the time. The …