Stowe 20/21, also Bolton Valley

[echo_VT]

The conditions at Stowe are finally getting better from bare bones. We get snow but then it rains and it gets washed away. Then it gets cold and freezes.

We’ve been getting snow lately and consistently 5 inches each day. However these past couple days we’ve been getting whistling winds. Went up sensation quad and the wind whistled. Thought I was at Whistler! It was a loud whistle.

they are still blowing snow so not all the runs are open. Off sensation quad just one run was open.

Holiday crowds were bananas today and yesterday. Surprisingly empty on Sunday even with snow. It rained on Christmas (A LOT!!) and we were called off from work on Christmas and the day after (Friday and Saturday)

 

[echo_VT]

They shut down sunny spruce for a good part of the morning today due to the winds. The lines for meadows stretched all the way to the sunny spruce lift. It was seriously hectic!

 

[echo_VT]

Bolton is similar, the husband and kiddo have done some night skiing on weeknights.

 

[echo_VT]

Today there’s less wind and just 1” of new snow. Conditions are variable for Stowe, it warmed up yesterday afternoon so there were some icy spots today but mostly good.

 

[newboots]

It's been a weird year for snow in the Northeast, that's for sure. All that snow, then all that rain! Glad you're getting more snow!

 

[echo_VT]

Absolutely.
we skied uphill the perry merrill gondola trail with the husband and the kiddo on NYE. It was icy, windy and not fun but we did it and there were quite a few people who had the same idea including families with kids.

Yesterday was warm. Didn’t go to the hill.

It snowed overnight. In Montpelier we got 6”. The roads weren’t plowed including the highway I-89. Getting to the hill was an hour instead of the usual 40-45 min. In the town of Stowe there was also snow, and on hill it snowed and is still snowing. Big fat flakes. But it is slow and sticky. Moguls everywhere. Nice powder run in the morning.

We finally have snow!!

 

[echo_VT]

I’m back in Montpelier— we got 9”-12” overall. Lots more shoveling when I got back!

I went to putter in the nearby hills. That was fun. I also puttered around the college green. When I say puttered I mean classic ski but with adventure skis (backcountry XC skis).

Great soft moguls at Stowe the whole way down when I left. Very enjoyable

Now where’s that hot cocoa ;)

 

[newboots]

9-12”! Wow! That’s wonderful!

 

[echo_VT]

So no snow really — but the snow is still here. There have been some snow tunnels. But we’re getting snow this weekend. The nailbiter is that it may also rain. So doing all the snow dances to hope for all snow thru Sunday... we’ll see!

 

[ilovepugs]

Hoping that Bolton Valley gets some - I’d like to get out and skin this weekend

 

[echo_VT]

Nice. I wonder if you’ve seen my husband and kid skinning at Bolton Valley

Last weekend was a bit icy on Saturday. Daughter reports the skiing was good on Sunday — I ended up xc skiing on Sunday which was so great too

Looking forward to the long weekend—!

 

[echo_VT]

The skiing has been fantastic Saturday and Sunday due to the snowfall that’s happened. The weather has been nasty but the skiing has been amazing.

 

[ilovepugs]

Did you get out to Stowe or to Bolton? I skinned up Wilderness this morning (slowly!!) - I was amazed at how many people got there at the ***-crack of dawn, like me - but of course, I guess we're all nuts in our own way and the powder was lovely.

 

[echo_VT]

We were at Stowe bc the kiddo was in her program and we were working I ended up doing a clinic in the afternoon and it was nice. Lol so many people have been going uphill this year due to it becoming a trend and also I think the pandemic had something to do with it...!

 

[echo_VT]

The powder was lovely...!

 

[echo_VT]

Snowboarded the mansfield side yesterday. The winds were blowing but the powder in trails was lovely.

 

[echo_VT]

Been skiing Stowe and it’s been so good. Mainly stick to the spruce side bc teaching, clinic also my daughter skis there for her program. I’ve been on skis a lot, even in the super frigid temps yesterday. I have my level 1 tomorrow so looking forward to it.

 

[ilovepugs]

Skinned Bolton this morning and have been night skiing there a little this last week. The snow’s been excellent! We have been in a lucky weather stretch these last couple of weeks.

 

[newboots]

We have been in a lucky weather stretch these last couple of weeks.

The polar vortex! Ain't it great?

 

[ilovepugs]

The polar vortex! Ain't it great?

I’ll take 10 degrees over 40 during the winter any day of the week! I set out with just a hat, a shell jacket, pants and my base layers this morning and it wasn’t even 10 degrees. Turns out that as long as it’s not windy, that’s the perfect temp for me to skin up the mountain!