Day 111: March 12

Powder Day !!! The cloud got stuck on the mountains, and we ended up with 6-8" of new snow on top of yesterday's 3-5", and with the wind pushing everything around, I found anywhere from 0" to 24" ! I've added a couple of movies on Instagram, so click the link if you want to …

Day 97: Feb 25

Powder Day at Le Massif !!! I woke up well before the alarm this morning because I was so excited to cash in on all of the powder, and at 6:05am, Hazel and I were having breakfast at Cora. Breakfast was pretty awesome, and that is why the teenager is smiling at this ungodly hour... …

Day 92: Feb 19

It was another cold day (2F) with N winds (-25F windchill), so I decided to elope into the woods of Big Jay mountain, where I knew I would be fairly well sheltered, and most importantly, I would be able to find a lot of untracked powder, because it takes some effort to get there, as …

Day 86: Feb 13

Powder day ! School was cancelled, but the chickadee didn't feel like skiing, and John didn't feel like skinning up and I didn't feel like driving +3 hrs to Stowe in a snowstorm and Finn had to go to UVM. The ski bum chose to skin up to Stowe and I left the house at …

Day 71: Jan 28

Powder Day ! Surprise ! After dropping off Hazel at the bus this morning, I made my way to Smuggs to skin over to Stowe. It was -3F at 7:15, with clear skies, a bright halfmoon, and a tiny whisper of wind. Right away, it was looking promising, as I started skinning on Jolly Roger, …

Day 65: Jan 21

After this latest winter storm, we now have 80" at the Mansfield snow stake, and bottomless powder where the wind doesn't blow... It was -9F at the Dewey trailhead this morning, with a windchill of -40F and what looked to be >20" of new snow. The ski bum saying is: there are no friends on …

Day 55: Jan 11

Powder Day !!! Another 8" fell overnight and brought the total for this storm to 38" (nearly 1 meter). The wind was blowing from the NW at 30 knots, temps were in the negative realm and the windchill was -35degF, so it was better to be in the woods than on a chairlift. I headed …

Day 54: Jan 10

Powder Day !!! It's hard to keep track of the amount of snow we've been getting because it's being blown around by the strong NW winds, but Stowe reported 12" overnight, and Smuggs 10" which leaves 20" since yesterday morning and 26" in the past 3 days. As of this afternoon, it is still snowing …

Day 47: Jan 3

Powder Day !!! My weather station, aka the picnic table, had about 5" of snow at 5:15 this morning and it was still snowing... I dropped off Hazel at the bus and headed to Smuggs to skin up and go over to Stowe to chase the Powder (it's a capital P when there is 6" …

Day 18: Nov 29

Finn reached the wise age of 16 today !  to celebrate, I headed to Stowe after dropping him off at the GMT bus for UVM.   Since the Forerunner quad was down yesterday, most of the higher elevation glades had not been skied much, so I thoroughly enjoyed myself exploring all this new powdered terrain.  I …

Day 17: Nov 28

Yesterday dumped a pile of snow, and it was heavy at the beginning, then getting lighter as the storm passed over.  This makes for awesome conditions to ski the trees, covering up obstacles, but leaving enough fluff.  So John and I headed to Stowe early to explore their glades. Sunrise glades