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Our great run of 100% open with packed powder continued today. Probably about an inch of powder from some time during the week freshened things up just a bit. 2/3 of my time was teaching but still had time to check out the steeps and a lot of trees. My run of the day was in the trees between...

More of the same for today. 100% open, lots of people no lift lines, packed powder on the trails, plenty of powder to be found in the trees. What a great run since New Years. I only got in 10 runs, with the best of the day being Glasgow glades (my first time this season up in there), Jester...

Royal had 100% of terrain open again today. My only runs off the top were in my advanced lesson in the early part of the day and we had a lot of nice, freshly groomed packed powder. The rest of my day was teaching two groups of adult first-timers on the practice slope. Nice conditions for...

I made a good destination choice today. It was packed powder and some powder today at Snow Ridge. Only South Slope and nearby was open before 11:30 while North Slope trails were being groomed. I enjoyed everything except the rocks and dirt on parts of Kuersteiner. The groomed runs were...

I had a nice afternoon at West for my first Indy Pass redemption of the season. Conditions overall are decent considering there's close to no natural snow. They've made a lot of snow and opened a good amount of terrain. Most of it was a pretty nice machine made and groomed packed...

Forgot to wrap up the weekend when I got home yesterday. It was more of the same on Sunday, another big crowd but no lift lines to speak of, just lines at the snack bar. I still ended up doing some teaching since it was so busy at the ski school but did get to make 10 runs off the top. I got...

Another nice one today, and another good crowd. Everything was open with powder and packed powder. A good amount more snow was made on Red Carpet, which now has a wider groomed swath and is a lot deeper. Great fun on that one today. I only got into the woods a bit on Duke, which was also...

I had a great first-ever day at Woods Valley today. The snow's not 41" deep powder anymore but there is plenty of it. Everything was open, I skied the vast majority of it, and have no complaints about anything. Packed powder everywhere, plenty of powder in the woods. No wind to speak of and...

I got back up for a couple hours at the end of the day today, glad I did. There was another 6"+ since yesterday and the snow was coming down pretty good. I focused my limited time on hitting areas I am only interested in skiing when there's good enough and deep enough snow, which are also...

Sorry I missed you @Harvey. You picked a day with Royal at its best and I'm glad you enjoyed it. With a couple of lessons I got only 8 runs off the top but all were great, at least some woods on almost every run. I couldn't get out on the main mountain until almost noon so I missed all of the...

Latest news is an 18" total from this lake effect event so far, and snow guns running as well. The mountain should be 100% open for the weekend.

I have a PSIA event at Mount Snow tomorrow then will be at Royal on Saturday. I will probably be teaching most of the morning, hope to have time to get out on the mountain more in the afternoon.

The current heavy band is drifting south but looks like Royal's still in it. No one will be on it tomorrow (except maybe the Johnstown race team if they have practice) so big powder day coming Saturday. The wind might keep some of the trails from getting too deep but that should only benefit...

I heard 12" so far and coming down.

Closed today with the questionable weather, back at it tomorrow.

Red Carpet day! (More on that below). I have two more days in the books, with most of my time spent teaching. The mountain, especially the ski school, was very busy both days. Even so, the only lines were at the snack bar with both chairs running to the top. I was fortunate that three of...

A Thursday morning of sun and packed powder. The bottom half of Challenge remains ungroomed and fun. The top needed to be groomed even more than it has been so far after one of the big whales at the top was spread out and was a little chunky. It was improving with skier traffic. More snow...

The mini storm delivered a mini 2-3" powder day for Christmas Eve. I had a lesson first thing so it was mostly packed powder by the time I got out there around 11:30. Really nice surfaces everywhere, and a lot of the woods were in play (I didn't do much). Still plenty of places to find fresh...

I was able to head up to the mountain for the afternoon today. The cold (upper 10's) didn't feel so bad with the sun out and no wind. I got in a quick 10 runs on some really nice, fast packed powder, just a few spots on the Challenge and Royal getting a little slick but all was edgeable. I...

Cold one today. I taught lessons all morning on the practice slope and only ended up taking 5 runs off the top after lunch. Queen and Royal were nice, Prince was OK, upper Knight was a bit chunky. Challenge was open but with snow guns blasting. That was not appealing to me so I will catch my...