Recent content by MikeM

A co-operative also is an ownership structure as defined in VT state law. I presume but don't know for certain (IANAL) if that carries tax and/or other advantages compared to a "club" or some other structure. As long as whatever you want to call it is doing the right things to keep MRG in...

Very belatedly, and I'm not going to make this a separate full-blown TR, but I skied Sunday River with my sons for the last couple hours of the day Sunday. Sorta intended to get there a little earlier than we did (especially after seeing rivercoil's TR the night before re sketchiness in the...

I love (but can't often get to) Saddleback, love (and am now a shareholder of) MRG, and also am happy for the places that shoot for broader appeal and in some cases give more early/late season options (I got first turns in Sunday afternoon at Sunday River) even though I'd avoid a lot of them...

I made my first trip ever to Jay Peak yesterday -- at 3.5 hrs each way it's slightly outside what I usually consider day-trip territory but it was a Friday and there was a lot of snow, so what the hell. I'd also considered Sunday River as they were opening the west side yesterday for the first...

Another update for ya ... Wildcat (NH) now shooting for April 22 close, per their latest snow report

Another update: Okemo now shooting for an April 22 close.

Great list. Couple updates for ya: -- Mount Snow is reopening for this Saturday and Sunday -- clicking through a banner ad on this site I discovered Jiminy Peak in MA will reopen tomorrow through Sunday.

Trying to decide whether to take a ski day tomorrow or Friday so I'd appreciate any updates ... Regional NWS discussions indicate the model runs have gotten considerably warmer the past day -- the dreaded "r" word is much more prevalent in the zone forecasts -- and the onset of the precip has...

If it were just me I probably would either have hit MRG (the radar looked pretty good last night) or gone up into ME chasing the higher snow totals recorded Tue-Wed. But my boys were off from school today and I figured Bretton Woods -- which they (and I) had skied for the first time in January...

Well, from the NWS spotter reports it does appear ME got the jackpot this time, with as much as 17" in Oxford County (Sunday River area, although Bethel itself reports 12" as of 7 a.m.), ~10" in Coos County NH (northern Whites), as much as a foot in northernmost VT and around half a foot in the...

Latest NWS forecasts are for 8-16" in the Whites and northern ME through tomorrow with snow showers likely to continue through Friday and possibly through the weekend. Sunday River stretches this to a prediction of 1-2' by tomorrow and tweaks VT/NH in their latest ... Tough for me to take...

Fri 3/16/2007. The powder night came through. Around 4" had fallen when my boys and I got to Bradford shortly at 6:30 p.m.; a little sleet was starting to mix in and persisted pretty much through the night but the precip was predominantly moderate to fairly heavy snow, totaling at least 8-9"...

Actually they've got three or four trails (including a freestyle area) marked black but anywhere else they'd be blues at most. The kids do like saying they ski black diamonds but, having been to Wildcat (and the older boy to MRG), they know it's all relative ... I'm actually looking to get a...

No, sorry. I think I've got some from a few years ago but mainly of my kids ... I'll be sure to take the camera on a future visit. I will say I'm happy for snowboarders as they're probably what keep a place like Bradford in business. And while Bradford doesn't have a lot of vertical they do a...

I have a hard time imagining skiing can get much better than it was yesterday at MRG, unless you're out West or in the Alps above tree line after a big dump. I'd been watching the weather and thought about making the haul up to Jay but once I was confident MRG would have plenty of snow, that's...