Open, 13º and blue sky. The forecast high for the day is 29º. (You may need Maxiglide on no-wax skis.)

The skiing is really good. The surface is packed powder/ some areas hardpack. The definition of hardpack is; When fresh snow becomes densely packed, it is hardpack. The snow has never melted and recrystallized, but has been tightly compressed through grooming. And hard pack snow is really nice to ski on. The tracks hold up and last longer. With warmer temperatures the skiing will be solid and fun. The cover is still a little thin, so we are grooming as little as possible. We haven’t groomed since Sunday morning.

As people found over the weekend, cold snow is slow snow.  When the temperature is cold, the snow is slow and if the snow is wind blown, even slower. Cold temperatures and wind blown snow are really slow.

Now we have fresh, hard packed snow and the temperatures are going to go close to 32º, and the fresh snow, and temperatures around 32º are the reason you may need Maxiglide.

The temperatures for the rest of the week have us with highs around 32º. There is another storm forecast for this Saturday/Sunday. Ian saw a model run yesterday saying Albany, NY could get 54 inches of snow this weekend. That is from one of their first model runs. We are laughing because that is ridiculous. The Single Chair Weather Blog guy, Josh, said there is a 33% chance of no snow, 33% chance of 6 inches of snow, and a 33% chance of this being a significant snow storm. So there you have it.