If you saw the previous post, you knew the title for this one was coming. Our cross-country ski season died this week - 'murdered' with gentle cruelty by springtime. As with stories and Shakespeare, there should be an epilogue or coda. The season kicked off a bit lazily, as the far north didn't have the …
Continue reading And then there were none: epilogue April 16, 2025
Welcome to March - Brrr! Brain-freeze warning Bad news first - no groomed trail skiing within a couple of hours of NYC. Your go-tos with shortest drive time will be Prospect Mountain, Notchview, and Lapland Lake or Garnet Hill. Better news - Such is our late winter that the region north of Albany and I-90 …
Continue reading Fond farewell to a fairly fab Feb: conditions for Mar. 2, 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
This is about as good as it gets - the only thing that could have made it better was a bigger dump of snow on the downstate region. But there's more hope in the coming week. Fahnestock is skiable, although with some thin cover in the woods, but Canopus lake is open for skiing and …
Continue reading Happy days: XC ski conditions for the week of Feb. 10, 2025
Across the Snow Line 