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The Ski Season in Photos #14
Seven Springs PA • April 26, 2012
Averages are averages after all. And while averages for snowfall were impossibly out of reach at the end of the season, April temperatures took a nosedive. After the record highs in March, the first full month of spring was cold, and served up an unlikely epilogue to the lift served season.
The Ski Season in Photos #13
Chic Chocs Basecamp • Early April 2012
After the lift-served season ended across New York and the Northeast, the most enterprising skiers were left to their travels. One such adventurer, ml242, pursued a long-held dream to ski the Chic Chocs at the northernmost end of the Appalachian Chain, on the Gaspe Peninsula in Quebec.
Against the advice of one of the most respected guide services in the region Matt and his group insisted on visiting the region, in one of the lowest snow years the region had seen in decades. As luck had it, some new snow did fall as they were travel north, and the conditions they found were quite nice, thank you.
The Ski Season in Photos #12
Bumpin Riley • Plattekill Mtn • March 19, 2012
After the snow gods delivered a solitary week of winter across the northeast, a cruel blow was served: the winter hating heat wave. In mid-March temperatures soared to mid-summer levels reaching in the 70s and 80s for nearly two weeks.
Already limited snowpacks began to vaporize and mountains across the state scrambled to figure out how they could cram in the normally extended party that constitutes the spring farewell to the lift-served season.
The Ski Season in Photos #11
MadPat Hikes Mittersill • Cannon Mtn • February 27, 2012
All season it seemed that eastern skiers were waiting for the start of winter. When temps got cold in early February, the pattern failed to deliver any significant precipitation. Finally, late in the month, forecasters predicted a coincidence of cold air and moisture.
In some ways, the first day of the Northeast Ski Blogger Summit in the White Mountains was a microcosm of the season. We skied at Cannon and we worked for everything we got. We battled the weather and for our efforts we found pockets of satisfaction and natural snow.