If the cold and wind doesn't bother you, this is great weather. Ater a warm and wet New Year's, winter has returned with some attitude. This is a quick post that I plan to update later in the day. Mother Nature was her pickiest self yesterday, dropping very little snow overall, but some isolated patches …
There’s always 2025…
...and that's right around the corner! Snow in the forecast for portions of northern NY State and Vermont. As the saying goes: 'if you don't like the weather now, just wait a minute' How's the skiing? With the rain and warm weather, more like 'water-skiing'. But some of the never-say-die centers are till saying 'come …
Chin up: there’s still skiing weather before New Year’s
Don't let this happen to you: You promised we'd go skiing! Still no joy for the Tristate/NYC metro, but excellent conditions still to be had before rain arrives Sunday. Prospect Mountain and Notchveiew are closest, with conditions status quo ante from Christmas Day. This post is about conditions for Dec. 27, 2024, and forecast for …
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Cinnamon spice potato latkes: ski conditions for Hannustmas, 2024
Happy Christmas and Hannukah combined! Some take the meaning seriously, while others are all about the food. The latter are happy to celebrate anything. The predicted snowfall did exactly as forecast, and delivered some nice powder snow to the north country of NY, the northern Greens, and the White Mountains. Craftsbury is now having good …
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There they go, skate skiing down the street…
... and I knew I'd arrived at the right place,-West Yellowstone. For winter, the side streets remain snow covered to make it easier on the the tracks of snow machines that crowd this small town in the southwest corner of Montana, hard by the borders to Idaho and Wyoming. But for a few weeks in …
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