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I think I'm going to give Mohawk a try tomorrow on my Indy. Though I'm also tempted to try Otis Ridge for $25, where they say all terrain is open. Never been to either.

I'm hoping to get ahead on some work in the next couple days and keep my Thursday open for a ski day, likely an Indy redemption somewhere within a couple hours of me. I am thinking Magic right now but will do some looking around on Wednesday to see what looks best. West is still looking like...

Just the afternoon for me today. It was a rain/snow mix up falling beyond Johnstown but all snow by the time I got to the mountain. It hadn't amounted to much and even by closing there was maybe an inch of new, wet snow. Everything was heavy, and at times a little grabby near the bottom. My...

Nice and sunny afternoon visit today with our out-of-town guests. Cold with more breeze than you'd want but everything's wide open with packed powder on the trails, thin cover of powder/packed powder in the woods. I still avoided the steeper woods. It was the busiest non-race day yet judging...

Operation Drain the Ponds worked. Lots of snow made all over the place, and the ponds are pretty much empty. With the cold and a bunch of newly-made snow just pushed around and groomed out for today, things started out hard and fast. With traffic, it skied into a nice packed powder surface...

We had some friends in who decided to sit out the cold tomorrow so we went over to Maple for a few hours this evening. I used my first Indy day there. The double chair and the handle tow were running, snow being made all over. The conditions were nice and it wasn't too cold yet. I only took...

Jake posted a long video on Facebook today. Some highlights: - Operation "Drain the Ponds" started yesterday and will run until there's no more water in the ponds. Challenge, Captain Jack's, and the new Lower Red Carpet will definitely be open. He didn't mention Doc's Drop or the T-Bar line...

I didn't ski since I was there for the high school race today. I was very surprised by how light the crowds were for MLK at Gore. We parked just around 9 in the E lot, easily found spots in the lodge, and never saw any line of any significance on the gondola or AE2. Snow looked great. I...

Frozen granular became powder and packed powder when a few squalls dropped a quick 3 inches. Busiest day of the season so far, and probably the busiest ski school day we'll have all year. After the first squall I was able to pop into Princess Woods and Damsel Glades for the first time. There...

Crazy weather day and snow conditions to match. It started raining hard soon after I arrived so I stayed in the lodge until almost 10. The rain stopped so I went out for 4 runs, including my first runs on the season on Knight and Midnight, both open for the first time. Places where the...

I picked a good day for my first Gore visit of the season, and met my nephew to ski for the day. I was surprised at how many people were already parked when I pulled in at 9:10. Maybe they were all there for the racing/race training because everything else (lodge, lifts, trails) was not...

Powder and packed powder today, great day. It was pretty fluffy (by eastern standards) at least to noon, a little heavier later. I'd say short of a foot of snow but not by too much. Even some woods were in play, and I got some nice runs in the Maiden Glades (between Knight and Prince, below...

I was mostly teaching today, but one was a student who was able to ski all over the mountain, so I ended up taking some runs on the main mountain. There was a lot of new snow made on all open terrain this week, for some great machine made packed powder surfaces. Only parts of Queen had some...

On Tuesday, there were some but not terrible. Worst was skiers left on the bottom of Holiday cutting left toward the lodge area. Giant cookies, then gravely, brownish loose granular, then a wet snow gun, then super slick hard pack down toward the bottom of the Catamount chair. Hopefully...

^^ Come see us at Royal! Progression from practice slope to Knight to Prince.

For my first day of the season away from Royal, I used an Indy day at Catamount this afternoon about 12:30-3. It was pretty much what I expected it would be: lots of loose granular, mixed in with way more gravel than you'd like in some stretches, some really hard pack, but then some nice...

I went up for a few hours today. Ski school was not busy so I was not needed to teach. The surfaces were lots of loose granular on Prince and Queen, with freshly made snow coming down on Royal when I went out late morning. After lunch, more snow guns were firing up, almost much top to bottom...

The snow report has an alert that says "The Northwoods Gondola will be closed until further notice. We apologize for the inconvenience."

I'm sure Royal wasn't the only mountain with frozen granular becoming loose granular today. If you didn't know before coming, you could hear it on arrival with the slushy turns of the last week now scratchy turns. At least it felt like winter out there. No new snowmaking yet, not sure if the...

Royal reopened today to more of the same. It drizzled about half the time as we skied on a wet granular surface. I was surprised they groomed out the trails given the warm and wet overnight. It worked well to produce pleasant conditions (other than the "getting wet" part). Skiers' right on...