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Great spring skiing on topridge, Hawkeye, chatimac, and rumor. Lies headwall is mostly rock making almost unskiable. Things are rapidly changing. Uncus now closed.

I also had a great time. It’s amazing how well gore skis with natural snow. I finally skied lower stelheig with new entrance. It’s awful. It’s an elevator chute groomed to a hockey rink including the original head wall. Why? This trail skis best with natural snow,minimal snowmaking below the...

Skied today with outstanding northern Vermont like conditions. Burnt Ridge was my favorite. Boreas and barkeater were a blast. The new additions on sagamore really give it a Vermont feel. In the afternoon, I went up top. High Pines and Topridge were good but were sticky from the sun. Headed over...

I also skied boreas today and had same impression. Just not enough snow for glade skiing. My glade and trail comments were directed towards past years. I’ve been skiing gore for last 25 years so I’ve seen a pattern. So, are trails closed frequently due to staffing or saving for weekend or is...

North chair has been closed on a regular basis this year. BRQ is rarely open too. After all, they just recently made echo skiable and sagamore just opened last week. What a waste of money to have that pod sit unused so often. It opens late and then offers limited skiing. I am also upset that...

I haven’t missed one in quite a while. The first few gatherings were small with only about 10 people. We were satisfied to cut a 10 foot path. The crew on Sunday was fantastic. The large group split into 3-4 groups which covered the whole mountain. Not only was new terrain cleared but old punji...

Last time you threatened someone when you didn’t like what they said. That’s your M.O. you’re thin skinned. Like I said before, why don’t you take a break from this forum.

You have demonstrated the difference between you and a lot of people many times. Name calling and threatening are not acceptable forms of discourse. Why would people want to participate in this forum with the possibility to be subjected to this behavior?

Please take a hike from this forum.

Is this sarcasm or are you going down the rabbit hole designed by Q?

Best winter in years

Skiing the trees kept me warm. Had to take my mittens off for the first quarter of chair run to cool them off. The double chair has almost no wind. Skied 8:45 to 3 with just a 30 min car lunch break. I’ve had much colder days at gore this year.

That’s eastern skiing, always fearing that lurking patch of ice.

Skied Platty on Friday and had an epic day. Claiming a yearly total snowfall of 59 inches which includes the snow lost to the rain apocalypse, Platty skied like Jay. Never has 59 inches skied so well. The yearly glade cleaning has reaped infinite dividends. You can ski in the woods with...

On Wednesday I saw a snowboarder have a scary crash into a snow-covered bolder near bottom of Darkside under the chair. He came to a very abrupt stop. Thankfully he wasn’t hurt. The snow is now deep enough to cover some very dangerous debris under the new chair. I guess plenty of skiers and...

You haven’t been skiing enough lately. The trees at the edge of the trails are covered in probably thousands of pounds of ice and snow. They bend and brake. This rarely happened with the older snow making systems.

It’s called personal responsibility.

I was thinking the same thing about dragging hoses. After riding the lift again today, there just seems to be an incredible amount of debris both boulders and trees that need to be managed if trail is to be skiable. If they just bring up fill to cover everything up, then it will be like an...

These small ski areas died a natural death due to diminished snowfall, changing demographics, lack of capital, and small vertical. I first laugh and then cry when somebody starts up the “let’s rebuild the Big Tupperware” thread.