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It was just posted on Royal's FB that all main trails except possibly Captain Jack will be open tomorrow. And to me the big news: with such a great and early snowmaking run this season and with plenty of water still in the pond (that r*** was good for something anyway) they're going to be able...

The fluffy powder of a week ago was rained into a firm base and the snowmaking returned in force once it got cold again so it was a pretty nice Saturday at Royal. Lots of sun, a mixture of packed powder and frozen granular, and the main ways down the mountain open except Upper Knight and...

It was already going to be a great opening day, then Royal won the lake effect jackpot overnight with a good 8 or 10 inches of extra fluff. The mountain was busy but comfortably so. Only the Hadley lift was running to the top, so wait times got up to 2 or 3 minutes at times. As expected all...

It looks like the most terrain tomorrow for an opening day in many years. Only the top of Knight (probably because of ongoing snowmaking) and Challenge will be closed among the main trails. Wilbury Way is the old T-Bar line and rarely opens in December at all. And I expect at least some of...

Given the weather forecasts, there is high confidence in a December 7 opening day for Royal. The plan is to make snow every time temperatures are cold enough. Last weekend there a few patched of snow on the practice slope from testing the snowmaking system, but it was long gone this morning...

"Just west of the Massachusetts border"?

Not a conditions report, but this seems like the place to post a link to the "American Dream" episode that included a short segment on Royal Mountain: https://vimeo.com/928907516?share=copy There's a short interview with Brooke and Jake, and some footage from demo day back in February. The...

There were more clouds than I hoped at Snow Ridge, but it was still a spectacular event. The clouds thickened annoyingly after 2. We took the lift up to the summit and walked to a spot at the top of the ridge on the South Slope. For a minute as I was waiting on the platform for my chair up, I...

I got in the 11 runs I needed to hit 300 from the top of Royal for the season. It was bright and sunny while I was out from about 11:35 to 1:45 with a lunch break in there. The best skiing in my opinion was the top halves of Knight, Prince and Queen, a pleasant surface up there before it got...

Royal remained closed the last 3 days while they waited out the rain, report 7-8" snow from today's back side of the storm. Fri-Sun are planned to be the last 3 days of the season. All the main trails will be open. Knight and part of Prince are groomed, there will be a new small park on the...

I'm in FL right now, so can only report what's on the FB page: "We are open all week from 9AM-4PM weather dependent. BOGO lift tickets. Buy 1 get 1 half off all week. Second lift ticket is of equal or less value to the first." Looks like my Royal season might not be over. I hope to make some...

From my snowsports school director: Operations Update Friday (3/29): Closed for skiing. Open for the 3rd and final snow drag of the season. Sign-up 4-6, racing @ 7pm. Saturday (3/30): Open for skiing and riding as usual, 9am to 4pm. Sunday (3/31): Closed for Easter. Monday to Sunday (4/1 -...

BTW, I believe all West day tickets are half price. I had Indy so I didn't pay too much attention, but I think people buying 4-hour tickets walkup were paying something like $27. Sounds like it was a pretty bad season at West overall but it's ending strong.

I was fortunate to have my first day of Easter break on this bright and sunny post-snowstorm day. I decided this was my chance to get in a good Indy Pass day close to home at West, finally. Good choice! I was out about 30 minutes after opening and enjoyed a great packed powder run down The...

A bit late posting. I had a nice Indy Pass day at Mount Hood Meadows on Friday. It has been warm so the snow had been slushy, mostly firmed up in the morning so I stayed mostly on groomed runs. The forecast was bad but ended up being pretty nice. The top half got a little snow during the...

I'm off to a conference in Portland, Oregon, this week. I am hoping to get away from the conference on either Thursday or Friday to use an Indy day at Mount Hood Meadows.

No changes have been announced yet to the intent to stay open for Easter break. That might not be possible but there's plenty of snow to get through the upcoming colder week to be open as planned next weekend. Pond skim on Saturday. I've got a lot of travel coming up, but there's a small...

Talisman after lunch on Thursday.

The Friday groom turned out to be a great call. The snow was firm and edgeable all morning, really some of the best surfaces all season except for those way-too-rare fresh natural snow days. The sun didn't really come out much until after 11, then things got softer. All 5 main ways down were...

Headed up in a little while this morning. Here's a Facebook post from yesaterday: