Open at 9 am. New snow total at 6 am, 2 inches and the temperature is 26º. Forecast high today is 31º.

The snow is wet. It started as rain, switched pretty early to sleet and then to snow. It is wet snow, but not snowball snow, the kind of snow that once driven on becomes really slippery. It will groom out and look beautiful, but it will be quick, fun quick . Grooming on all trails happening this morning. This wouldn’t be a bad day to ski all the trails.

The snow last night and this morning are from the top part of this chart. The chart is from Vermont Snowflakes, I have now purchased 4, one was for Andy. We have seen snowfall this year at many temperatures. From -5º to 35º, dry snow, to wet snow. Snowball snow on Wednesday. Wet snow last night, but you couldn’t build a snowman out of it.

Looking to the future, we will be taking it one day at a time. We will be open as much as possible until the end of March. Some of the things that affect the decision are rain, ski conditions, and road conditions. I will post here as soon as we are able to make a decision.

Open at 9 am. The temperature at 6 am is 27º. The forecast high is 42º. At 6 am the sky is clear and the sun is rising.

The forecast is for 33º at 9 am and 39º by 11 am. No grooming today.

It will be a nice corn snow, and corn snow is fun to ski on. The skiing will be fast early, and slow down as the temperature goes up. Not as slow as yesterday. A good spring ski day.

Corn snow is snow that has melted and refrozen into a rough granular surface. 

And more weather forecast for tonight. As of 6 am today the forecast is for 3-5 inches of snow and ice overnight. The amount of snow/ice will all depend on how fast the cold air arrives.

Two photos from yesterday. Photo below, the snow measuring stick up by Styles Junction, 34.5 inches. The Snow Goose stake is about the same.

Photo above, a little ski fun at the start of the trail yesterday. Two grannies, Harriett and an almost 2 year old. Sun glasses and sun screen recommended.

And an old photo that popped up on Facebook last night. Thanks to Diane for sending it along. Chuck’s dad is in the standing row, right of center, holding a pair of skis. Beard and dark colored hat. I am sure he had on his Odlo ski suit. and he looked pretty much the same in 2005, as he did in this photo.

Open at 9 am. The temperature at 6 am is 26. The forecast high is 44º. Three inches of new wet snow. Maxi Glide will be needed on waxless skis today.

Grooming is happening as I type on the lower trails and Chickadee. Good skiing. Middle and Upper Blue Jay are packed underneath with 3 inches of snow on top.

The snow is wet, it could be sticky and be slow. It is skiing and it is outside, enjoy yourself. This is another good day to be watching for animal tracks in this fresh snow.

A look at the future; open today, Thursday and Friday. Unknown for Saturday. And that is about as far into my crystal ball as I can guess.

Open at 9 am. The temperature at 7 am is 7º. The forecast high is 33º with snow starting this afternoon.

Grooming on the low trails last night left a lovely surface. The photos above are from this morning. It was cold out, but out to see the sunrise is a great way to start the day. Lovely skiing. Powdery hard pack.

Upper trails are faster, until the sun softens them, or the snow starts to fall and slows them down.

Otter slides have been spotted again. The coyotes are moving around. Also watch for bobcat and rabbit tracks. The animals are getting a little winter fatigue also. They are hungry and looking for food, which means they are moving and leaving tracks for us to see.

The birds are busy too. We are filling the bird feeder daily. We have all the normal winter bird feeder birds, blue jays, chickadee, tufted tit mice, red breasted nuthatch, white breasted nuthatch, downy woodpeckers, hairy woodpeckers, mourning doves, goldfinches, and we have had a pine grosbeak or two. We have purple finches off and on. And as spring gets closer we have quite a few juncos. We have not seen many evening grosbeaks, we don’t really have cardinals here, except as they pass through to better habitat. Last weekend we had two skiers with binoculars and it was fun to hear which birds they had spotted in the woods.

If you take the time to look and listen, there is a lot going on out in the woods.