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We had great spring skiing in the morning, excellent carving snow. All the main trails remain deep and there is still some skiing to be had in the woods. Red Carpet's bumps softened and were a lot of fun. When I finished up just after 1, my run down Royal was really soft but still pleasant as...

We had pleasant surfaces again today. I didn't make as many runs before and after the one lesson I taught, and I stayed out of the woods. I especially enjoyed the packed powder/sugary loose granular mix on Royal and Red Carpet was fun again today if you avoided a few skied down patches. Looks...

I got back to Royal today after being away last weekend. Thinking back to Wednesday night, a wind-driven r*** was eating away at the snowpack in my yard, and I knew it was doing the same all the way up into Quebec. I was figuring after the freeze up and a good groom, at least Royal's main...

On my way home last night from Oak for the B-P/Amsterdam ski race team banquet, I found out that Royal invited its staff to Oak for the day today. So I drove back up this morning and got to ski Oak. I'm glad this happened, because with the wind and the freeze-up following the r*** I probably...

I'm surprised this is the first post here in 13 months. I spent a couple hours at Catamount this afternoon on an Indy day. Most of the mountain was open with plenty of good cover on the snowmaking trails. Surfaces were generally nice, with some patches skied down to the glacier on the steeps...

It looks like there's not yet a Bousquet thread, so here we go. I made my first return since 2016 to this old favorite this afternoon, using an Indy Pass redemption. It was a sunny day, but still windy and cold. All of the main trails were open and groomed to a nice packed powder/frozen...

Seems to me they should make it into April unless March is super warm and wet. The snow on many of the trails is pretty deep.

My first time at Montage today was fun. It marked my first skiing in Pennsylvania and the furthest south I've skied in the East. I won't rehash what Brownski posted about the place. It was about 50 and cloudy with some breaks of sun for the first 90 minutes for totally different snow than...

I'm driving to Pittsburgh tomorrow for a conference the rest of the week, planning to spend a few hours at Montage on the way, using an Indy redemption. If it works out, it will be my first ever ski day in Pennsylvania.

And more of the same on my short midday Sunday visit. It was snowing lightly, not amounting to anything but it looked nice. If there was any change to report, I'd say that getting to the 6th day in a row and 8th of 9 being open is resulting in a few more patches on the steeps getting down to...

Good day today. The snow was pretty much still like what I reported for Thursday. The morning started with less than an inch of fluff on top of the corduroy, which was really pleasant. We mostly had sun with a few cloudy intervals, probably getting up to 28 or 30 degrees. My was split pretty...

Today was my first and only chance to get to Royal during the school break week. It was Alpin Haus Demo Day, so it was a pretty good crowd. I was only called on to teach one lesson, allowing me to get in a good number of runs despite having to arrive a little late and leave a little early due...

Royal's not going to open tomorrow to wait out the predicted high winds. I don't know how the precipitation today turned out at Royal. Here in Amsterdam it was about 2" of sleet this morning, some freezing rain and plain rain during the afternoon, and good coating of snow since the temps...

Royal picked up some snow but also some ice during the course of the week. Branches on the upper third or so were still encrusted by the results of some freezing rain. Ungroomed terrain had a crust you could break through with some fluff on top. That wasn't worth bothering with for me, so I...

Good: About 8" new, fantastic conditions everywhere and the sun was even out for a while. Less good: ski school was busy and I was called on to teach two lessons. They were enjoyable lessons but I wanted to be out there. After the lessons I hit as many glades as I could. Lots of really deep...

At Royal and a lot of others I hope.

Back at it today. My skiing was limited by wanting to see my daughter and nephew and their teammates in the high school race. I made 10 runs, mostly woods and steeps. There was enough new snow over the course of the week to get the woods to the point where I feel comfortable going pretty much...

Royal picked up a few inches from the Friday evening storm, keeping the powder and packed powder streak going. The snow was not as fluffy as recent storms. Where it was ungroomed and untracked there was a bit of a crunchy layer. I can't say much about specific trails since ski school was...

I ended up skiing Royal this afternoon. The snow cancelled the high school race at Oak, I had already changed my schedule to be there, and Royal was open on a Wednesday for the school holiday. This little storm treated Royal well, with 6" reported but clearly more than that in some areas. A...

Some squalls today, so my afternoon trip up to Royal was excellent. Red Carpet was really nice and I skied it a few times. All of the glades I hit were good with the exception of the steeper part of Princess Woods. It's thin in there. Jacksland has some thin spots too but they're easy enough...