Rainy day: Feb 24

The view from the bedroom this morning says it all... When it looks like this in the morning, I hit the snooze button... Not only did I hit the snooze button, I also decided to elope in search of powder... and I didn't have to work too hard to convince a young and cool accomplice! …

Rainy day: Jan 24

It's been raining since last night, and the temps have been in the low 40F but have now started to fall, and should be 15F tomorrow morning. This will turn skiable surface into skateable surface. Fun times ahead... Needless to say, I didn't go skiing today, and this was my first non ski day since …

Rainy day: Dec 21

At least some of us are happy !It's raining so hard, the rooster's tail is down. Welcome to winter ! it is 50F, raining hard and the chickens are happy ! A self-respecting ski blog should never have pictures of chickens in it... but it rained all day today, so I had to come up …

Rainy day: Dec 15

It rained last night, so I decided to take a day off from skiing to protest this absurd weather. I also decided to switch my blog from the epizy website hosting which was terribly slow.  Epizy had a lot of great features, like unlimited storage and no ads, but the speed just killed it for …

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 …