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While the ski conditions in Northern Vermont had been decent, and certainly consistent through January with some nice powder days, the snowpack depth still wasn’t all that great. In fact, as February approached, the snowpack at the Mt. Mansfield stake had been below average for a good portion...

E and Claire canceled Sunday Stowe program on the 23rd due to the cold, but on the 30th we were back at it. After a fairly dry week, we’d received some nice new accumulation up at Bolton to freshen up the slopes on Saturday. Down in the valley at the house, we wound up with 1.4 inches from...

It was a little tough to motivate the boys for skiing last Saturday, since there hadn’t been any significant storms reaching Northern Vermont. At the house we’d picked up just a couple inches of snow in the preceding week, and even up in the high country Bolton was reporting just 5 inches of...

Bolton Valley Nordic & Backcountry, VT 22JAN2011 After a great powdery outing with Dave up on Bolton’s Nordic/backcountry network on MLK Monday, our next snow event began the following day. It was one of those low pressure systems in the Great Lakes that redevelops as a coastal, and as has...

Dave stayed over through Monday, and the plan was to get in another day of skiing. With the amazing powder conditions I’d encountered on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, combined with additional snowfall, it was a no brainer to try and make some turns on the holiday. We had contemplated...

Dave had heeded my late week alert about the good skiing, so on Saturday evening we worked out a morning Timberline meeting. The clipper system that had started up midday Saturday dropped roughly 4 inches of new snow at the house by 6:00 A.M. Sunday morning, with most of that coming in at 3.7...

Last week’s midweek system had continued the excellent stretch of snow, yielding a great dose of dry Champlain Powder up at Bolton for Thursday, and then snowfall from that system continued at a slower pace right into the holiday weekend where a clipper was due to add more fluff. On Saturday...

I was too busy to get out on Monday for the bounty of upslope snow that followed the weekend’s inverted trough system, but overall it was quite a nice event. By the time it finished up on Tuesday we’d reeled in a total of 18 inches of snow at our location in the valley to make it our second...

Sunday, January 9th was our first school program session of the season, and we were off to Stowe for the afternoon. With the level of skier traffic, especially weekend skier traffic that Stowe sees, Sunday afternoons don’t typically offer optimal snow surfaces. However, last season had to be a...

After checking out Bolton’s snow situation and alpine trail offerings around midday, I headed home and filled E and the boys in on what I’d found. Since there was plenty of powder, but not a ton of lift-served trail options were available, it was a perfect time to head up for a tour on the...

Northern Vermont wasn’t the focus of the weekend’s inverted trough system, but Bolton had reported a couple inches of new snow. We’d seen generally small flakes from the system at the house, but in the late morning when they started to get much larger, I figured it was time to head up to the...

We’d found that temperatures had cooled down a bit Friday afternoon at the end of our Bolton outing, and slopes that were not in the sun had begun to tighten up. In general though, temperatures stayed relatively warm, and there was no new snowfall through Saturday morning. We hung out at the...

Bolton Valley, VT 31DEC2010 On Friday our friend Dave came up from Boston for a skiing visit, arriving in the late morning with his dogs. Like Thursday, we headed up to the mountain around midday, and the found that the trend of moderating temperatures had continued as suggested by the...

After Tuesday’s great outing with the boys, the whole family headed out for more turns on Thursday. The skies had been somewhat gray on Wednesday, but the sun was back for Thursday and consistent with the forecast trends, the temperatures were climbing to the low 30s F. There hadn’t been any...

After finding excellent snow conditions at Timberline near the end of the Nor’easter on Monday afternoon, it looked like lift-served skiing was going to be fantastic on Tuesday. E was a little under the weather and wanted to get some things done around the house, so it was going to be a ski day...

Northern Vermont wasn’t really the jackpot for this Nor’easter, but we did get into some of the snowfall. As of 6:00 A.M. this morning we’d picked up 1.1 inches of snow down at the house that came in at a fairly synoptic storm-style 9.1% H2O, and up above us at Bolton Valley they reported 3...

The boys opened up some early Christmas presents yesterday, so there was no way I was getting them up to the hill, but I was able to join up with Stephen and his kids for some turns. In the past we’ve had some great Bolton outings on Christmas Eve, with some nice natural snow terrain available...

We contemplated heading to Smuggler’s Notch yesterday to use some free vouchers, but opted for Bolton Valley instead when they won out with snow accumulations. Bolton reported 7 inches of new snow, and based on my analyses from the house, it was in the 8-9% H2O range for density. This meant...

We had a busy day of holiday-related activities planned yesterday, so I headed out early to earn some powder turns before things got going. Although I’d been hearing great things about the snow at Timberline, and I’d driven by and seen the tracks there a number of times, I decided it was...

Bolton Valley, VT 18DEC2010 We had one of those weeks where it snowed almost continuously at the house and in the local mountains, but there haven’t been any huge synoptic storms to make people really stand up and take notice. We’ve actually had over a foot of snow this week at our location in...