Mar 27 2018

Great Day For a Great Spring Ski

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I love smiling skiers!

Open, 17º at 7am, and sunny. Forecast, 41º, partly sunny.

Today looks like the best weather day of the rest of this week. The forecast has not been real accurate. So, we’ll see.

Spring skiing, hard and fast in the morning and late afternoon. Slower and softer in the middle part of the day. Depending on temperature and sun, and today both temperature and sun will make good skiing.

Cliff has added an area at the bottom right of this page, where you can write too. The web people call it “testimonials”, Cliff and I are calling it “I like to ski here too……” . Click on the form fill it out, one of us approves it, and then everyone gets to see what you think. 

Empty those buckets!

Gathered sap yesterday. More to gather today and boiling. Looks like the week is for making syrup and skiing. 

Mar 26 2018

A Perfect Spring Ski Day

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The busiest hill around.

Open, 21º at 7:45am, and a sunny blue beautiful sky.  Forecast high, 38º, and clear.

The skiing is wonderful, spring skiing. The snow will soften and warm up, say, after 11am. Spring skiing is variable, it can be soft and wet in places, and dry and powdery other places. Over all a great time! We are not grooming today. Ian is working on the new Ranger, oil change, etc. and then he is skiing. Woo-hoo!

Stoking the fire.

We will be boiling maple syrup again tomorrow, Tuesday, if you want to see the inside the working sugar house. We made 6 gallons of syrup on Saturday and 7.5 gallons of syrup on Sunday. For a season grand total of 34 gallons.  Chuck thinks we have 34 more gallons of wood left. And Ian thinks, given the forecast, which looks great for making syrup, we will have wood until about April 2nd.

 

Mar 25 2018

Spring Skiing and Maple Syrup, Life is Good.

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Is that a beech tree?

Open, 20º at 7am, and the sun is peeking through the clouds. A dusting of snow overnight. Forecast 34º and cloudy.

Great spring skiing again yesterday and today might be the same. Ian is out grooming, here is a picture from this morning. Spring skiing is faster in the morning and again later in the day. The skiing slows down if the sun hits the snow or the temperatures get warm enough. The forecast has not indicated it would be warm enough for good spring skiing for days, yet it has been sunnier and warm enough all week, for good skiing all week. At this time of day I only know the forecast, not the reality.

Ian’s picture, grooming this morning, 3/25/2018, about 100 yards apart.

Skied with Catie yesterday and she loves pointing out interesting leaves and trees. She and I are working on tree identification. She has white birch, yellow birch, she is getting sugar maple, beech, cherry, and red spruce, next she wants to learn balsam, the Christmas tree.

The sugar house was in full boil yesterday. They made 6 gallons of really good syrup. The sap did run Saturday, which means after Ian grooms, he and Chuck will gather sap, pump sap to the sugar house and then start boiling. The air smells so sweet around the sugar house. 

Mar 24 2018

Good Skiing Today, and Boiling Some Maple Syrup

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Showing tracks, variable conditions, different left to right.

Open, 23º at 7am. At 7am there are a few clouds and sun. Forecast high 29º, mostly cloudy and a few flurries. The past two days have been far warmer and sunnier than forecast…so who knows?

Good spring skiing. Variable snow conditions, powder up high and corn down low or anywhere that gets any sun after about 10am. Waxless skis are great right now; waxing is still almost impossible. Decent classic tracks in most places. Faster loose granular in the mornings, hardens and speeds up again late in the day. Slower when the sun hits it or the temperature goes high enough. I will keep talking about fast afternoons until I don’t hear from skiers how fast the downhill was in the later in the day.

Ian gathered sap on Friday afternoon. We ended up with just over 200 gallons, plus what runs into the tank from the tubing behind the sugar house. Enough to boil today and get 5 or 6 gallons of syrup. Make the sugar house one of your stops today. It is very interesting. They will start boiling after the grooming is done. So late morning. Kids are welcome in the sugar house, as long as they are accompanied by an adult, most things in the sugar house are very hot.

Fire up the evaporator and let’s make some syrup.

 

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