[Update 2025-1225 1300h] It's time for downstate NY skiers to get some winter love from Mother Nature. For the holiday weekend your ski window extends from now till sometime late Sunday 12/28 or early Monday 12/29. The ideal ski outing window is from Saturday morning to Sunday afternoon before rain starts in earnest. See additional …
Continue reading Ho Ho Ho, let’s have some Snow! Forecast for Dec. 25 2025
(12/22/25: this post will be updated as information available justifies.) Interior NY west of the Hudson Valley and up through the Adirondacks, and New England north of I-90 or the VT-NH/MA border could have a white Christmas Eve! 5-10" of snow could fall in the High Peaks and mountains of northern Vermont, and coastal Maine …
It's a quick-turn reversal in weather so well known in the region - warming trend, a low that brings rain/wintry mix, followed by dip in termperatures back below reezing. This is clearly not the stocking stuffer we were hoping for. The aftermath has left us with no XC skiing within at least four hours of …
Continue reading So classically northeast: conditions for Dec. 20 2025
Well heck yeah, that's the way to start winter - High Point, Minnewaska, and Mohonk are all either still open or were able to reopen after a surprising refresh of snow last Sunday. Bonus - NYC got enough snow to make people watch and wonder: Photo: Janice Chung for The New York Times By now …
Continue reading Easy come, easy go: forecast for Dce. 19 2025
There are three options for the downstat4 XC skier: High Point, which is open but not well groomed, so they aren't charging trai fes Minnewaska State Park Preserve, where conditions are descirbd by park manager as 'good to excllent' Mohonk, which has rolled and packed trails but no tracks. That's pretty good for this day …
Continue reading Cold and frosty: conditions for weekend of Dec. 13 2026
Across the Snow Line 