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Minimal
Conditions, Don't Pay Full Price |
| One
Star |
We
expect limited terrain or poor snow conditions. This might be a
good weekend to work on technique or get your ski muscles in shape
if you are used to skiing in the east or at Sugarbush and you have
a pass or a way of skiing cheaply, but don't go out of your way
to be on the mountain. If the conditions are hard or icy this is
not a good time to learn to snowboard. If the beginner slope is
open this might be a good weekend to learn to ski. |
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Limited
Terrain, Limited Lifts or Poor Weather |
| Two
Stars |
Limited
terrain, poor snow conditions, or poor weather . If you are familiar
with skiing in the east or at Sugarbush and you have a pass or a
way of skiing cheaply you can have fun on a weekend like this, as
long as you understand what to expect. |
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A
Good Weekend for East Coast Skiers |
| Three
Stars |
The
Club X gang will be out on the slopes. If its early in the season
there may be limited terrain open. The snow conditions might include
patches of ice, mainly groomed terrain or mainly man-made snow. |
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Natural
Snow and Good Coverage |
| Four
Stars |
Good
coverage, limited natural snow or skier packed powder. If snow is
in the forecast we might give a five star weekend four stars if
we expect strong wind to close lifts. |
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|
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Excelent
Skiing By Any Measure |
| Five
Stars |
Fresh
snow and very good skiing conditions. |
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| WEEKEND |
PREDICTED
RATING |
HINDSIGHT
RATING |
NOTES
|
| Nov
23, 24 |
|
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Wind
shut down the lifts on Saturday. Sunday we had 8+ inches at the
top and Exterminator and Bravo were open and the skiing was excellent.
A passholders day. |
| Nov
30, 1 |
|
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Anyone could have had fun this weekend. Mt. Ellen was open from
top to bottom, and there was at least eight inches of fresh snow.
At the top of FIS, there was a cornice with waist deap snow below
it. This would have been a five star weekend except that south was
not open and the slopes were crowded at times. |
| Dec
7, 8 |
|
|
Excellent
skiing on Saturday. It snowed all day on Sunday. |
| Dec
14, 15 |
|
|
The
predicted snow became drizzle on Saturday leaving us with a workable
day and that firmed up on Sunday leaving us with a typical New England
early season scratchy day. |
| Dec
21,22 |
|
|
It
rained and then it froze. The groomers gave us a workable day by Sunday. |
| Dec
23-25 |
|
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Six
inches on Christmas day but crowded. |
| Dec
26-27 |
 |
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Crowded
but fun. |
| Dec
28,29 |
|
|
The
groomers were good each morning. The singles line was fast enough
and there was plenty of snow if you knew where to look for it. |
| New
Years |
|
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A
little skiid off and busy. |
| Jan
4,5 |
 |
|
22
inches. |
| Jan
11,12 |
|
|
It
snowed another 11 inches on and off during the week. Very cold. On
Sunday we got a few inches of light fluffy cold-weather snow. |
| Jan
18,19,20 |
|
|
It
was -17F on when we woke Saturday morning. You were skiing firm packed
powder unless you could find the dry light powder elsewhere. It warmed
a bit for Sunday and Monday. |
| Jan
25,26 |
|
|
It's
been very cold. We have natural snow on the trails but it's firm firm
firm. Still the whole mountain was open and it snowed on Sunday. |
| Feb
1,2 |
No
rating given. |
|
Good
skiing. |
| Feb
8,9 |
No
rating given. |
|
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| Feb
15,16 |
No
rating given. |
|
-40F
(after wind chill) at the base of North on Saturday. Just too damn
cold. Sunday it warmed up to around 0 to -10 and the skiing was fun. |
| Feb
22,23 |
No
rating given. |
|
Spring-like
on Saturday and heavy rain on Sunday. |
| Mar
1,2 |
|
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Hard
bumps and ice on the trails and some breakable crust in the trees.
It snowed at high elevations on Sunday. Check out the movie. |
| Mar
8,9 |
|
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1st
classic spring weekends Church skied well. Bumps in trees.
Trails were soft, hero's snow. |
| Mar
15,16 |
No
rating given. |
|
Great
spring skiing. Everything open, blue sky, warm classic corn tree and
trail runs. April in March. |
| Mar
22,23 |
No
rating given. |
|
Fine
spring skiing. |
| Mar
29,30 |
No
rating given. |
|
Some
of the best spring skiing all season. Last day of Castlerock. Saturday
was good trail spring skiing followed by rain
and lightning all afternoon. The trees where to soft. |
| Apr
5,6 |
No
rating given. |
|
Mad
River was knee deep since it was
closed since last Saturday. The bush was only fair since most upper
lifts where closed due to wind even though we had lots of snow. |
| Apr
12,13 |
No
rating given. |
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| Apr
19,20 |
No
rating given. |
|
A
wonderful spring weekend. As we left on Sunday the temperature was
86F. You could ski from summet to base of North as long as you don't
mind rocks, mud, and grass. |
| Apr
26,27 |
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