Open, 19º at 8am and sunny. Expected high today 26º, and sunny. The weather is great!

Photo from this morning, December 23, about 8am.

We survivied the rain. Some shoveling and trail checking started yesterday afternoon. Ian started first thing this morning, 4am. (Somebody bring him a breakfast sandwich!) He jumped in the snow cat. Chuck put a new ignition swithch in the snow cat yesterday. Worked great! Well this morning at 4am. Nothing. Thank goodness that was an easy fix. Ask one of them, something about a disconnected wire, and it went right back together. He drove around grinding up the snow until 7am, when Mindy arrived and she jumped on the snow machine pulling the Tidd Tech.  Chuck then climbed in the snow cat and continued going round and round and Ian switched to the Ranger and the Ginzu. Holy smokes. The most ground up snow in town.

Dec. 23rd, 8am.

They are working on the Woodcock, Snow Goose, Turkey and Peregrine. The Grouse needs more work, shoveling up on top where it is flat, it will happen later. The skiing is way better than it should or could be and we are grateful to have snow left and skiing to offer. That being said, the skiing will be on the quick side. There are thin spots. There will be a few thin, shiny spots here and there that were just too hard to grind up. But 98% will be ok.

Closed. 35º at 7:45am. The temperature is dropping fast is was 44º at 4am as the thunder and lightning went through with the last heavy rain. The storm total, 2 days of rain is 2.03″.

The ground is still covered with snow. It is not pretty. But, since it is white we have something to work with. Ian and Chuck can work magic with the groomers so stay tuned. We will start working the snow Sunday morning after it dries out and freezes up. We will be open again as soon as we can. There are snowflakes in the forecast for Monday and then again on Friday and Saturday. 

 Photo, left, is a feel good photo. It is from Thursday, the 20th, when the sun was shining and the skiing was good. 

On a different note, we have a new, old business in town. Seesaws, was Johnny Seesaws, is brand new and open again. They are and have tried really hard to be true to the original spirit of the place. The old building had to be removed, it was way past its prime, but the new owners worked very hard to salvage important features and reuse them, such as the fireplace hood and the beautiful mural. Artist/muralest, Kim Ray, restored and painted this mural, from the old lodge in the new restaurant.  Here is a link to the history page.  So, check them out, Rt 11 between Bromley Market and Peru Village. (Closer to Bromley Market). We have had dinner there a couple of times, it is great. The bar is a hopping scene during the “cocktail hour” and the rooms look wonderful. They also have an event barn, just in case you need to book an event.

Closed. 34º and raining. 

Well, yuk! We had a good run. We now have to wait out the rain, let if dry out and freeze up, get a little new snow and then we will be good to go again. We have been skiing since November 15th. Some skiing really scratchy and some skiing really good. We will get skiing again ASAP! I’ll keep you up to date.

The two girls in the photo were from yesterday, December 20th, and they had a great ski!

Last night, the Solstice Celebration, was great! Lots of kids skiing, lots of adults skiing. Lots of fire and fun. The fire was wonderful and the skiing was all by headlamp or ambient light from the moon behind the clouds. Put it on your calender for next year. Sometime around 20th or 21st.