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Sharpen your edges. They claim about 6" this week, but it's just frost on porcelain. The damage from the Christmas rainstorm is still right on the surface. Trails that have received snowmaking since then are skiable, but are still pretty damned firm. Woods have a brutal crust - don't bother...

Anyone been to Mt. Glen recently? I'd appreciate any info on the place. I'm going to be spending 3 days in the townships in a week, and while I like Orford and Sutton a lot, I'd like to try a new hill... My french isn't good enough to follow zoneski discussions, unfortunately...

Not a bad Turkey day. I ran into snow somewhere around North Anson at about 9. Got onto the hill by 10 and the top half of the mountain was missing in the snow... Weather was snow, cold and windy. Manmade on Sluice was scratchy with the rain-affected snow being exposed. Ditto Spillway...

At least, the latest model runs seem to support the idea... Cold air floods into the area Sunday afternoon, could hang around until Wednesday. St. Saveur? Bretton Woods? Someone will likely run the guns for a few hours to get a photo-op...

Somewhere in Quebec is going to get snow next Friday/Saturday. I just can't tell yet if it is going to be the Saguenay or the Gaspe...

Bluebird day (at first). Caught the second tram car of the day up to the piste Charles Brozon. Nice snow just off-piste there. Here's Lobstah on a south-facing aspect: Here's me after a north-east facing pitch: And the reasons for that, 20 seconds prior: That was literally 30-60...

The old saying for skiing in North America is that if it's hell on the highway it's going to be heaven on the hill. Well... 36 very trying hours after leaving the house we arrived at our hotel in Chamonix. On the up side, our connecting flight was delayed because of snow, and it snowed in...

All lifts on windhold, all day. Things did not get skied-off. Soft snow in the trees. I made two runs from about the top of Double-Runner longside. The halfpipe was very icy - I couldn't hold an edge up to the lip.

The locals were powder starved. This is eminently apparent, as TeleLobsterGrrl reported to me that everything on-trail was tracked-out by Friday at noon. By today everything that was not groomed was bumped. Very bumped. Everything on-map is tracked out and bumped. Most things off-map are...

TeleLobsterGrrrl, Moxie Dawg and I drove up to Greenville to ski Big Squaw today. There was lots of untracked left on the main mountain. Of course not having a lift probably has something to do with it. Sad to see, that. All the chairs from the double are stacked next to the lift base. The...

Sunny. Warm. Crowded. Except for temperature the skiing has been about the same for two weeks. The moguls are bigger and there is more junk showing in their troughs, but otherwise it's more of the same...

17" of light 'n' dry at Pres'que Isle Maine last night and today. That should fully open Big Rock. I'm thinking of heading up there Saturday.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6827473/ ?Huge? avalanche at Utah ski resort Rescue crews search for up to 15 who may be trapped BREAKING NEWS MSNBC Updated: 4:35 p.m. ET Jan. 14, 2005 PARK CITY, Utah - An avalanche crashed down a 300-yard-wide swath of mountain near a ski slope at the popular Canyons...

Got to the Bear Mountain base about noon. Temp was 35, the wind was howling, and the summit was in the clouds. They hadn't gotten nearly as much snow as had fell further south. Took a run under the Skye Peak triple (world's slowest lift?), took another one down Cruise Control, got lost in the...

Much heavier crowds today in nice weather. 10-15 minute line at the Summit Express. It had snowed another 2-3" since the lifts stopped Saturday, for a total of 6-8" of very light snow. Uncle and Uncle's Woods were the trails of the day. Again, the patrol had thoughtfully reserved the trail...

Moderate snow all day added up to about 4" by the time I called it a day. There was a light rain crust below that, with about another 3" of soft snow under it over a glare ice base. Hop was the trail of the day, the patrol had thoughfully reserved it for us. The light rain crust meant you had...

Stopped in for a few runs in the afternoon. Looks like they had received 3" to 4" of snow overnight. Most things with angle looked very polished, but Tim's Trauma was excellent with soft fluffy coverage on the sides. One of the main runs at Bear Peak (can't remember the name) was quite nice...

Nadine's Atomic TM18s don't have enough edge grip. Neither do my Dynastar Intuitiv 74s. Someone recommend an ice skate for me. Should I be looking at a race GS or a race SL ski? Bear in mind that current conditions are and will likely continue to be glare ice with groomer track and tiller...

Um... It was kind of firm out there today. It was best to not try to turn unless you really REALLY had to. Fortunately the snow started falling at 4, just as the chairs stopped, and today's conditions should just be a bad memory by tomorrow.

Only took a couple runs this afternoon. Big fluffy light flakes were falling thickly from the sky. There was 3 inches at mid-mountain, and maybe 4-5 at the top of the superquad. Unfortunately it was so light that it wasn't making any difference to the skiing. I'd guess they'd need at least...