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 100: Feb 28

For this milestone day, I was treated to a fantastic bluebird day. It started off really cold, at -2F in the upper lot at Smuggs, at 7am... but since I'm a on a quest, I just skinned up faster to help out on the global warming front. The sun is faster to the top than …

Day 91: Feb 18

The snowpack at Mt Mansfield stake was at 100" yesterday and more fell today, so it will probably be about 105" at tonight's report. There's only been 18 seasons since 1955 where the snowpack reached 100". It is an awesome year to be a ski bum. The graph below shows the snowpack at the stake …

Day 43: Dec 30

Today's mission was to skin up to the top of Madonna to enjoy the sunrise, and get in 2100 ft of vertical. I'm tracking behind to reach my goal of 150,000 ft of vertical this season, with 35,500 ft so far. Ideally, I should be at 45,000 ft, so I guess I'll have to make …

Day 28: Dec 11

Since it was cold this morning (1F) and I had to bring Hazel at the high school for jazz band at 7am, I decided to commute to Stowe by yet another route: the TearDrop trail, on the western side of Mount Mansfield. Stowe is mostly on the eastern aspect of the mountain. Therefore, a "simple"  …

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 …