look at that blip!! think the Jay Peak Powder Factory might be turnin' the faucets on tonight!!!

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I had a couple buddies who skinned up before work yesterday, said with the wind and freezing R up top it was some of the most difficult change-over conditions they'd dealt with in a long time, thank...

Haha, this made me laugh too. I got kicked out of his group a while back for contradicting some of his opinions and posting "Jay sucks, tell your friends" a few too many times lol

Risking your skis is right! ha, I hit bottom a few times when they dropped the rope on Kitz, a few knicks on the bases, but overall the snow coverage was pretty dang good all things considered. We...

Confirmed the Jet was a zoo in the morning. I was also in the line up for first chair, got some nice turns on the Jet and the top of Haynes. I was really surprised at how long they had the Bonnie on...

need that Jay Cloud to start churnin'! Hope to see you guys out there, I'll be the guy in the Jet Lot asking around to see if anyone's got change for a nickel.

That shot from Ragged is awesome,...

Great to see all the pics from this storm, glad it tracked north and south/central VT got some goods!!

chiming in on the Jay comments from earlier, you guys are all correct - rarely is it worth it...

definitely a grim outlook indeed - thinking about the financial side of it all; the VT relief fund of $75M for the hospitality sector (+$2.5M for ski areas) is less than 5% of the normal $1.6B...

Miller Time

some cheesy Life is Good one or "This Car Climbed Mt. Washington"

The big conglomerates certainly do have deep pockets and a fighting chance, but I'm honestly somewhat nervous about the future of the smaller independent resorts that don't hold as much power. I'm...

VT is on Mass' list of low-risk states so I don't think there will actually be any enforcement of people returning to MA from VT; it'll mostly be VT's rules and guidelines that dissuade people coming...

It's a way of life



UC and Genny Cream all day, any day

you're completely right; it's always icy and never fun - Jay sucks, tell your friends

I don't have any beef with Benny but would love to bear witness to an east coast ski-off this season. If the lifts are closed are we racing up and down?

I've been spotting cars there for a long time now and can attest to the bottom lot on 242 getting more and more crowded over the years, especially on weekends & pow days. We used to primarily hitch...

"If you can ski Huntah Mountain, you can ski anywhere"

https://unofficialnetworks.com/2014/05/07/ski-hunter-mountain-ski-johnny-drama/

I learned pretty quickly that you gotta take everything on here with a grain of salt

^this - thanks for the reminder, I gotta stock up

three generations at minimum eh? preferably four or more. love me my green plates.

I'm well past my college days but similarly, my work just sent out a company-wide email asking staff to reconsider their holiday travel plans for thanksgiving/christmas. really sucks to hear from the...

I actually hit up OGE last weekend and saw a lotta out of state plates while walking around town. kudos to the shops and greeters for asking about out of state travel, but I highly doubt these people...

guy I know said it best: "Vermonters generally hate hanging out with other people to begin with, so it's been easy for us all to keep our distance"

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went mountain biking on Saturday, saw the snow covered peak of Mt. Washington in the distance and gave a blessing to Ullr for the first snowfall of the year while thinking to myself "damn I...

me and my crew skied 35+ days after they shut down the lifts in March, had to skin for our laps but had the place to ourselves, and yea, some seriously epic pow days as well. All I know is that...

I demo'd the Bent Chetler 120's a number of years ago on a non-pow slushy spring day and they were a ton of fun even without any fresh snow. I'd say go for it, the bigger the better.

slashing their property tax assessment ought to help 'em out a little as well... not such a great thing for the Town of Jay if it means losing out on that income tho
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There goes the neighborhood......

well, at least it's not Ikon or Epic... yet....

Count me in - currently lookin for a new truck to sleep in the bed of this season, hit me up if you guys hear of any sweet deals or have any tips on building out a camper.

Here's to staying...

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Peanuts

Yea, I was prescribed oxys after my ACL surgery last year, taking them made me understand how people get hooked on 'em and loose their minds. I stopped taking the hard stuff and switched to...

Thanks for sharing this link. I loved this part; Steve acknowledges that this excerpt is from when he left Powder in '98, but I feel like the words apply just as much now as they did then:

"In...

I was part of a crew that passed you as you were coming down near the top of of TRT right before we got to Hojo's, I was the super sweaty guy in the Hawaiian shirt, one of my friends was the dude in...

Yea I had heard Vail was out of the running a while back as well, thanks for the link



Bristol was my home mountain growing up and they used to guarantee at minimum 100 days of operation for...

just bought my season pass for 20/21 at Jay - early bird prices go up after June 8th and they have a decent deposit down/refund policy if you change your mind before October. Always exciting to buy...

Yesterday was another all-time spring touring day! I agree with the others here in that I'm amazed at how much coverage is still left on most of the trails - beautiful sunny skies, smooth and surfy...

NEK that sunset shot of Jay is awesome - nice pics to all! tomorrow is shaping up to be another warm and sunny one, hoping for another solid day of shreddin spring corn

yep, about halfway down the Jet - - some lower mountain runouts and woods have started getting thin and melting out a bit but overall the snowpack is holding strong, I'd say the base is still ~20"+...

Saturday was an all-time spring touring day, 55 degrees and sunny, it was downright hot on the way up.

hung out on the back deck of the Patrol shack, excellent spot for a beer
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Well this has been a pretty crazy April eh? the Jay Cloud dropped about 8" on us between Tuesday night and mid-morning yesterday so it was another genuine springtime pow day up here. Gorgeous...

couple of my favorite shots from this season:

more sunrise stoke
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sunny springtime laps a few weeks ago
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with VT extending stay-at-home orders I tend to think not. I have my doubts about the base holding up for another month as well. Anyone got recent pics of the superstar glacier?

Closed is a loose term in these parts; they have barricades up at the resort entrances but there's ways to get up there if you know your way around the area, plenty of other backcountry options as...

just changed over from liquid precip. to sleet down in town at Jay, I've got my fingers crossed its snowing up on the mountain. the early call from NOAA was close to 20" in this cycle for us up here,...

the people have spoken, here are some shots from yesterday:

up at the summit with some gorgeous views
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skin track stoke with my turns on the way down

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can confirm that yesterday was absolutely gorgeous out there on the slopes. snowed about 2-3" Monday night up my way. the sun was shining and the thermometer was reading 36 so we decided to go for a...

yesterday was awesome, soft corn snow ripe for some smooth springtime turns. gorgeous weather for a frontcountry tour in the NEK! saw a few other folks up on the slopes, everyone seemed to be within...

Tore mine somewhere around end of Feb./beginning of March 2019, it was a series of a few tweaks that did me in over the course of like 2-3 weeks. I could tell it was messed up but had very minimal...

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