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One Powder Day After Another

This image was captured earlier this week in Vermont’s Mad River Valley, after another 2-3″ of snow blew in the night before. Approx. 15-45″ of snow has piled up in the higher elevation backcountry across the north country since Jan 1st. The skier is Ian Forgays, a long-time Mad River Glen shareholder and small business …

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Avalanches in Vermont

Although relatively uncommon in comparison to the higher peaks of New York’s Adirondacks, New Hampshire’s White Mountains, Maine’s Katahdin and Quebec’s Gaspe, Vermont’s steeper mountainsides are susceptible to life-threatening avalanches. During this past week alone, several reports of small slab and sluff avalanches have come in. Recent winds have loaded steep gulleys and even forested …

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Rime-coated Forest

The upper elevations across the northern reaches of the northeast are in a truly beautiful state right now. The hardwood forest above 2500′ is especially attractive with its ever-deepening snowpack (15-35″ of fresh along the western slopes of the Green Mountain Divide since last cheap xanax alprazolam Sat/Sun, and it’s still snowing!), and the birches …

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Great story about skiing the Thunderbolt…

Don’t miss Peter Bronski’s latest story about skiing the classic Thunderbolt Ski Trail on Mt. Greylock in Massachusetts’ Berkshires. The story recently published in the Jan/Feb issue of AMC Outdoors magazine, along with an image of ours captured off-piste on Mt Greylock.LINK

Now that’s a weather forecast…

Let’s cross our fingers about another big and snowy nor’easter winding up for the northeast this Thursday pm (12/31) through Saturday… Visit our weather page for the latest updates…