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Gore Mtn, NY: 12/21/08

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It never really totally stopped snowing last night. Ultralight flurries fell overnight adding up to maybe an inch. I was up about 5am. At 6:30 the wind picked up and it started to snow. It was about 5 degrees when I headed toward the mountain at 7:30. In the parking lot everyone was expecting snow:

In the time it took me to walk from the parking lot to the lodge it started to dump bigtime. And it dumped pretty much all day:

gondola

I went in and got my gear on. It was about 8:10, and I was yammerin on about something to some poor soul. The Gondi light went green, I excused myself and got my self into a cabin.

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Gore Mountain, NY: 12/20/08

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Today was a top 10 day. Fantastic. Real powder tree skiing doesn’t happen every week at Gore. No surprise, I couldn’t sleep last night. When it’s dumping, I just keep waking up to look out the window. I crashed about midnight and final got out of bed around 4:30.

Showcase

Conservatively we got 14″ overnight and another inch today. The snow that fell after midnight last night…maybe the last 5 inches was total blower. It snowed lightly all day, even when the sun was out.

It was 10 degrees when I started the car and headed to the mountain. My new plow guy was nowhere to be found, last night or today before I left for the mountain. I left the car at the top of the hill, and blasted my way down.

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Garnet Hill, NY: 12/19/08

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I looked at the radar this morning and decided a 9am departure would be significantly easier than my usual 2pm vanishing act. Most of our staff was either coming in late or working from home anyway, due to the weather. I had a meeting that I postponed and one that I moved up. I was out of there by 9:30.

Driving in a Snowstorm

It was sleeting LOUD in the flatlands, calm and dry in the Lower Hudson Valley and snowing north of Albany. As I got to Glens Falls it was borderline blizzard. By the time I got to the Hudson in North River it was still snowing hard. This was on the porch since last Sunday, some from Wednesday, some from today:

Snow on Porch

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