[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
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
How's the skiing? Nice today except for gusty winds. Saturday starts nice but with cloudy skies, and snow begins in the afternoon, moving SE to NW. Conserve some ski energy for Monday as Sunday likely to be sloppy or a bit of a washout. Weekend Word Not a lot of snow expected along the coast …
Everything's open and skiing is decent to very good. The bluebird of happiness arrived today. A bluebird day Fahnestock Winter Park is skiable, and Canopus lake trails are open for the first time in four years. Great for skate. Minnewaska, Mohonk, and High Point are also open and skiable. The bluebird might fly off for …
Continue reading Bluebirds and President’s Day weekend: forecast for Feb. 13 and the weekend
At least one and maybe two storms could bring what downstate XC skiers have been hoping for1 Bring the magic, Elsa! Meanwhile, things north of the Catskills and I-90 are about as good as they can be. This post is about conditions for Feb. 7 2025, and forecast for the next few days. See jump …
Continue reading Touchup: forecast for weekend of Feb. 8 2025
Across the Snow Line 