Middlebury Snow Bowl Conditions

[saratogahalfday]

We Made It Through The Floods!

December 20, 2023

Good morning skiers and riders! Boy, Mother Nature has sure thrown us some curveballs over the past months this year. While we did suffer significant natural snow loss with the heavy rain on Monday, our manmade surfaces held up really well. With a little help from our incredible grooming team, we will be open for day & night skiing from 9am – 9pm!

Today, we’re expecting mostly sunny skies, a high near 34, and northwest wind 8 to 10 mph. While we did get a little snow yesterday, our snowmakers are hard at work off the Sheehan Chair, making up for any loss from the rain to keep us on the snow. Today we’ll be riding machine groomed and packed powder surfaces with 5 lift serviced trails to start the day including the new discovery trail off the magic carpet Discovery Zone learning area. Kelton is expected to open later in the day, which will bring us back up to 6 trails open.

Uphill skinning is not advised at this time due to the loss of natural snow on our routes.

 

[Harvey]

Is anyone on this forum a passholder or regular?

 

[saratogahalfday]

Is anyone on this forum a passholder or regular?

I'm neither, but I try to ski there a couple of days per season. They have night skiing now, a rarity in VT.

 

[tirolski]

They have night skiing now, a rarity in VT.

Wonder why night skiing is rare in Vt?
Seems it could be good for after school kids & worker bees to get some fun turns in locally.
Sometimes it snows at night & LED’s are better than the old lights.
Maybe not enough staff and/or patrollers?...

 

[Harvey]

I mentioned in another thread, this will be the closest hill to me on the Green Mountain spine. Certainly Killington isn't much farther, but I imagine this place might match my style.

I thinking of trying some of those $45 lift tickets next year, and seeing where it goes from there.

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[D.B. Cooper]

Wonder why night skiing is rare in Vt?

My guess is population, cold weather and many of the mountains are too big to support night skiing. And it would cut into time to do grooming.

 

[MarzNC]

My guess is population, cold weather and many of the mountains are too big to support night skiing. And it would cut into time to do grooming.

There's night skiing in NH. But that's closer to Boston.

Plenty of night skiing in northern Michigan. Probably colder than VT most of the winter.

I wonder if there are rules in VT that make it harder to install lights. Timberline in WV has night skiing, but only off the short lift that goes to mid-mountain. Can't remember the details but getting approval (state park?) for lights on trails off the summit lift (detachable 6-pack) is complicated. Timberline only has the two lifts.

 

[tirolski]

My guess is population, cold weather and many of the mountains are too big to support night skiing. And it would cut into time to do grooming.

Looks like the big bumps don’t offer much at night but some little ones do.

Vermont Night Skiing | List of Ski Areas with Night Skiing in VT

Vermont Night Skiing Night skiing has been a part of the New England ski scene for decades but the largest mountains don’t offer night skiing anymore in Vermont. Some of the smaller hills have embraced this as part of their culture and you’ll find these on the list below. Which Vermont ski...

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Only BV runs a chairlift at night, the other bumps are all surface lifts.
Surface lifts makes it easier to get folks down if ya have a problem at night.

 

[Brownski]

The real key is to be located near a big enough municipal area. People from Burlington can go to BV after work and kids can go after school. I have always wondered if Pico could benefit from lighting some of their trails

 

[trackbiker]

Vt Digger Article on Night Skiing At Middlebury

I've skied there several times in the past couple of years. I think you'll like it, Harvey, when the back side is open. No snowmaking over there, all natural.