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Thanks for the suggestions. Unfortunately, I didn't hit the lotto, so I'm gonna be ski-bumming this vacation, staying at a hostel or two and relying on cheap ski/stay packages. So, no heli or cat skiing for me, but that might be a little much for me anyways. I think I might also try to get up...

I'll be skiing really tiny local hills in the flatlands of Ontario. While it's a given that I'll be the only telemarker there, I'm torn as to if I should take my super-fat powder skis, or my ultra-lightweight backcountry touring skis with the lightweight boots... <BR> <BR>"No, they're not...

18Z ETA is looking a 'tich colder than then 12Z run did. Looks more in-line with the GFS, which is a good thing. <BR> <BR><A HREF="http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/nwprod/analysis/namer/eta/18/images/eta_p60_072m.gif" TARGET="_blank"> 18Z 60h ETA precip at 72 hours</A> <BR> <BR>1"-1.5" liquid...

Could be worse. Sugarlof has given up for the day. They're calling it "wind hold"... <BR> <BR>Heh. Right.

"There aren't any ski areas on the coast." <BR> <BR>Camden Snowbowl gets no respect... <BR> <BR>Storm -- looks like Sugarloaf will get some mixing. Ick.

Okay, so... First off, the drive over was beautiful. A huge moon setting in front of us, the sun rising behind us, and alpenglow on a distant Mt. Katahdin to our right. Throw in some rime on the trees from river mist and it was just a goregous morning. As we came out of Kingfield heading up...

Wow. 12-18 hours of storming still to go there, too. <BR> <BR>I can't get there. "Plowed" roads here had 5" on them. Unplowed highways had drifts breaking over my Forester's hood at 4:30 this morning. <BR> <BR>Where to go. Where to go...

Frank - next week's storm should hit the Montreal area. Unknown how big yet, of course. <BR> <BR>I can't believe that we might go from effectively no natural snow to having the woods open in 1 storm. I won't believe it. <BR> <BR>How is it that the models are handling this storm so poorly...

18Z ETA: Oh. My. God. <BR> <BR><A HREF="http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/nwprod/analysis/namer/eta/18/images/eta_p60_066m.gif" TARGET="_top">http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/nwprod/analysis/namer/eta/18/images/eta_p60_066m.gif</A>

The 6Z GFS looks quite nice and even further north. Well, it looks dry for Quebec, but you guys got the last one (at least the Laurentians and Quebec City areas did), so it's our turn. <BR> <BR>On-shore wind: With upper-air temps the way they're supposed to be, it should work like "lake...

Sorry I missed it. I was stuffing a new motherboard, processor and RAM into my computer. Much better now...

Lurk lurk lurk. <BR> <BR>I'm the kiss of death to any storm. The 0Z looks nice enough, and that's all I'm going to say about this. I'll take a 0Z ETA to go, please. ;-)

Frank, promise me you won't freak out. <BR>Promise? <BR> <BR> <BR>More rain is due Friday. Sorry. <BR>Personally, I'm not planning on skiing this weekend.

Plake skis 300+ days a year. <BR> <BR>For us mortals, ski days are too precious to waste on bad snow. It's not that I can't ski it, it's just not the most enjoyable way to get down the hill. Kind of like how a Geo Metro will get you to work and can be made to handle well but it's more...

Ugh. TG fluff == bad mojo. <BR> <BR>Glad you're okay. Did it tear-out right to the ground?

Machine-groomed granular and eastern firm. Pleyuugggghhhhh! <BR> <BR>The warm spell and the rain last week did a number on the snow. Sluice and Spillway were scraped down to boiler plate/race snow by 11:00. By 1:00 there was a deep layer of shavings on both edges of the trails which made for...

Make that 11/16... The 15th was a nasty horrible day - cold and really windy. I stayed home.

Good and almost full-width coverage on open trails. Almost no natural snow however. <BR> <BR>Bluebird day with light winds and strong sun. Snow surfaces were ungroomed. Got a little scraped-off in the center of the trails towards the end of the day. The trail edges were covered in velvety...

It even suprised their marketing/web people. I would have been there had they given a couple hours notice.

And don't forget to stop before you ski over the cliff. <BR> <BR>(I had forgotten about that mountain, really, I had...)