This is when you see the ski touring center operators start waking up. They dust off their keyboards and start up the snow groomers, make an update on the site about opening or why they're not open, and sometimes start grooming a bit. As a result, about half the sites have updates from a today …
Continue reading Grumbles heard: forecast for week of Dec. 1 2025
Rikert and Craftsbury have minimal amount of trail, and nothing else is available for nordic skiers who aren't ready to ascend to higher country in the Adirondacks. But lake effect snow is due to arrive for the next few days up north, and temperatures will get colder for the weekend. This post is about conditions …
Continue reading Wiindy with lake effect snow: forecast for weekend of Nov. 29 2025
Start prepping those skis - if you're of a mind to head to Stowe you've got soms skiuable terrain. This post is about conditions for Nov. 21 2025, and forecast for the next few days. See jump links to Conditions and Forecast. How's the skiing in general? Definitely something in the mountains. BETA report of …
Continue reading It’s on! Weather for weekend of Nov. 12 2025
Can Arififical Intelligence make sense of what XC touring center trail reports? Read on and find out. Some former colleagues in my work life had said AI was perfect for pulling information out of web pages, so I thought turning it loose on cross-country ski touring center reports was worth a try. I used Microsoft …
Snow. And rain, And possibly freezing rain. Yay - it's winter in the northeast again! Cross-country skiing is not happening, although there's a bit of downhill skiing going on in the Northeast Kingdom, and maybe a couple of other spots of the far north. Forecast Cool weather is persisting over the next couple of days, …
Continue reading Wintry conditions: weekend of November 15 2025
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