Mrs. Weasel and I shall book the grandparents for childcare. We're in. Let me know how I can help set up. I have Tuesday off prior, and could spend the better part of the day over there if that...

Sooo....when is it officially time to put this thread to bed and crank up EC Roll Call 5.0? Like my kids, it gets crankier as it gets more tired...

^^^^^ That's a great shot! Yummy.

No no, see, we LIKE the cold and rain....it's the perfect sacrifice for Ullr. Just look at what it did for this past season!

Word from the director is that cleaning and consolidating the deadfall and limited pruning for woods runs is considered a net benefit to habitat and thus does not fall under Act 250 review. Not like...

Gack....neural malfunction. You (greg) said LaForce, I meant Ross in my reply. Sorry. Yes, both sides of LaForce have some nice terrain, but have been only wink-wink nudge-nudge heretofore.
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I am counting on residual mojo...or is it mojo residue? Ewww.... ;-)

Also, my three kids are 2, 4 and 7...so while some backcountry is possible, we are mostly lift-served. The 4 and 7yo ski everything there that I do, and prefer the woods, so this opens up quite a...

Right (and left) of Laforce has been marked terrain for a few seasons now, but goes nicely. Even though it is on the map, it still gets little traffic. This is the way of the Bowl. Everybody is...

I doubt that they will expand their patrol coverage significantly. Most areas haven't included skiable but un-marked woods in their patrol envelope. Most of the wooded areas are pretty open, the...

Given that the Bowl is on wholly private land, that assumption could easily have landed you with a no trespass order prior to this policy change. While the terrain is not fundamentally challenging,...

The director has set a policy for woods work they are undertaking with and for volunteers, and has distributed it without any indication of restriction to those who have expressed an interest in...

In MiddVT news, the Midd. Snow Bowl will have a 100% open woods policy beginning next season. I believe that this is due in no small part to the efforts of folks on this forum to expose the...

And Monday, Wednesday, Thursday Friday....sometimes Saturday.... ;-)

Well, it is a VT farm family, so kids happened...well.....early. They were early French settler stock and though they farmed, they were more recently (4 most recent generations) stonecutters. And...

My father in law is a 7th generation Vermonter who has lived all but the last 6 of his 75 years in Vermont. I guess he knows just about every kind of snow there is. I asked him if he was sure it...

Not that anyone here cares about this now, but in-laws reported snow in Midd Gap on their way through right after the freakish storm that blew through (and down) this afternoon. Yeah, I said...

Sounds perfect for my first foray to Magic next year..... ;-)

Good advice from Rog....That said, price seems in line with what the market is doing here in the Shire these days. I don't see any near-term upward pressure on pricing, though, so a low starting bid...

AK-- would be happy to take a look at what she has to see if it can be tweaked to work. Let me know. --J

^^^^ Sweeeeet shot!

Yeah Bottle! Keeping the faith. I cheated on the Bowl and went lift-served at the Bush with the tinies, Mrs. Weasel and a weasel sibling.

On the way up the lift, the 6-year-old said "Mommy and...

Solid Dave!!! Been eyeing my boat in the garage now, shoulder finally feeling ready to get back after it. Not, however, on that...Nice drop! I have been thinking some low-volume creeks may be my...

Gack....how far up did you get? The observatory cams were clear around noon....
Bummer. Well, still better than a colonoscopy, right?

As a heart attack. Zora is designing (in her own particular 7-year-old idiom) her ski now in sno-cad, right down to the camber profile and graphics...Depending on the complexity of her core-shaping...

It's all about the boot selection. The Merrell Ember offers maximum lateral response and fore-aft power for the discerning 15-month-old big mountain ripper. Sorel offers a selection of...

.....and.....back to regularly scheduled debauchery. WoW!!! What a day! Snow on the frontside of the Bowl was superb, solid mag crowd in attendance (though I missed you all most of the day), and...

FTW! This is instantly one of my favorite pics this season. Someone give that kid a cookie!

As in, "help make sure you never get to live this down"? :-) Kinda like my sister helped me out one day in the Bolton BC........

^^^^^ My favorite gpetrics shot ever! "Yeah, I'll help, hang on just a second, let me get my camera..." Awesome!

Stoke meter currently at -5. Will re-assess tomorrow. The 6 year-old is devasted. She was convinced she would be shredding trees on her powder skis today. Instead, she had to cram in homework...

You say this like "degeneration" isn't a compliment on TGR.... ;-)

Snow drought = thread degeneration. C'mon snow!

JGB: +1 on Middlebury Inn, usually not hard to get decent rates. Also, met the owner of the Breadloaf Inn this year, he is an avid BC tele-saurus. The inn looks right out at Breadloaf Mountain, and...

Skied today (actually, ALL day!!) with the tinies. Simone (4yo) got it today. Officially ripping. I had to ski to keep up. She looked up at me and said: "Daddy, can we go on the steep trail now? ...

Have to say, I don't much care for "secret" stashes. Most of the places we are mining are public land. Sure, we go out and look for spots, scout the lines, wait for the right conditions, but that...

Nope, that's on the bill for Tuesday with the tinies. If you are in Middlebury and look east, the first ridge you see is where this is. Basically, just east of the "airport"....read: field with old...

BC today was a quick lap out the back of my parents's yard at the edge of the ridge rising out of Middelbury. Still in the valley, so nowhere near the snowpack up high, but enough to give it a go. ...

ML- Glad you liked them! <3 the Teams.... Have wanted to get back on that ski for a long time, never came together. Getting back on it was like coming home to a warm fire and filet mignon... A...

Nice get, Leanne and Scott! First descent or not (and I'm with robrox, claim it unless someone can show otherwise), that is a B-U-R-L-Y line, and you get serious props for tackling that. Sweet!

Todug...outstanding! Good effort, looks gorgeous.

^^^^ Straight up nuking all day. If I was really core, I would be headed into Breadloaf Wilderness right now with my headlamp and 2 rocks to bang together in case I got cold. Alas, I am no longer...

Snowed all day in Middland. Spine should be prime tomorrow, and hard to imagine there will be anyone at the Bowl...

Dunno about that...I have done a number of them now, though I totally screwed the pooch on the last set and completely mis-drilled a brand new set of Praxis Pows (see tech talk thread). After that, I...

Edit: JGB- this is not directed at you, but just a general heads-up for Bowl miners....

Yup, things there are changing...that said, the wood-friendliness is a very new development, and one several...

Her first time ever? Two suggestions. Lesson (not by you...nothing against you, just how it is) and hot tub followed by solid dinner.

Have fun!!!

Toured with Ms. Weasel in the Breadloaf Wilderness, LT north out of Midd. Gap today. Climbed to the ridge, traveled the ridge for a bit, then dropped left into the bowl above 125. Beautiful birch...

Effing outstanding. Now THAT'S a solid effort. Sweet pics JPH.

In other news, the tinies threw a full on mutiny this morning. Wouldn't leave the house. No shred for us. :-(

I did, however,...

Yup, our tracks WERE there....then everything got filled back in Thursday and Friday. Point is, there's great snow!!! Come ski it! Or go elsewhere, but anyway, shit's sweet right now! If you are...

Actually, it's not false. 12" storm Saturday, 6" refresher Tuesday into easy 18-24" Wednesday, plus another 4" refresher yesterday and more through today.

For those who aren't so familiar with the...