Hugh's Views - Smugglers' Notch Vermont

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Wow what a day!

Posted December 18, 2019 at 5:12 pm

**Charlie skiing past the ice flow on Thomke’s**

**Bruce enjoying the fresh snow on Hangman’s**

**Snow Reporter getting into his work!**

We received 7 inches of new snow in the past 24 hours, 14 inches in the past 4 days, and 60 inches this season so far! Tonight’s forecast is also calling for snow with another 1 to 3 inches of accumulation possible. Tomorrow’s forecast is calling for partly sunny skies with a high of 8 degrees. Bundle up and enjoy all the new snow! Tomorrow we plan to have skiing and riding on all 3 mountains. We plan to have 4 lifts operating, Sterling, Madonna II, Sir Henry’s Wonder Carpet, and Mogul Mouse’s Magic Lift open to the summit. We now have 21 trails open with terrain for all ability levels. Surface conditions are machine groomed and packed powder with average base depths of 12 to 48 inches. We are presently making snow on Lower Morse Liftline, Sam’s Run, Dixie’s Knoll, Log Jam, Riglet Park, and the tubing hills.

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Another Great Opening Day

Posted November 29, 2019 at 4:47 pm

We are presently making snow on Lower FIS, Lower Madonna Liftline, and Mulcahy’s Link.

Snow Sport University Beginner Lesson on Sir Henry’s Learning Hill

2 Lifts and 13 Trails Open

Tomorrow we plan to have Sterling Lift and Sir Henry’s Wonder Carpets operating. We have terrain available for beginners, intermediates, and experts. Today we started with 7 open trails and by the end of the day, we had 13 open trails. The trails that opened throughout the day were Thomke’s, Hangman’s, Upper Pipeline, Upper Exhibition, Chute, and Hangman’s Drop. We plan to have these trails open tomorrow also. Tomorrow’s forecast is calling for mostly sunny skies with a high of 25 degrees. We plan to groom 7 out of the 13 trails for tomorrow for a grand total of 25 acres of freshly groomed terrain.

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It is going to be another beautiful day

Posted March 13, 2019 at 6:42 am

Morning light over the Village

Lifts and Trails

We are 99 percent open. Today we have top to bottom skiing and riding on all 3 mountains with 6 lifts operating, including the Madonna I Lift. We have 77 out of 78 trails open with terrain for all ability levels. Black Hole, Freefall, and Madonna Liftline are open from the traverse on Upper FIS. Surface conditions are packed powder and powder with average base depths of 24 to 54 inches. 43 trails have been groomed for today, including Catwalk, Ruthie’s, Snow Snake, Log Jam, Hangman’s Drop, and Smugglers’ Alley for a grand total of 154 acres of freshly groomed terrain.

Weather

Currently it is 20 degrees at the summit of Sterling with bluebird skies and winds of 5 to 10 mph. Today’s forecast is calling for mostly sunny skies early with increasing clouds and temperatures between 20 and 35 degrees.

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Beautiful day

Posted April 9, 2018 at 3:48 pm

Sterling summit

We received 2 inches of new snow last night and it changed the snow surface. The groomed trails were fantastic with the fresh snow on top of the corduroy. The groomed trails will be very nice again with the new snow mixed in with the existing snow. The new snow also allowed us to open Hangman’s and parts of Upper Exhibition.

Tomorrow’s forecast is calling for cloudy skies with flurries and a snow shower with an inch of accumulation possible and temperatures between 26 and 38 degrees.

15 trails will be groomed for tomorrow, that’s 40 acres of

Taking flight

freshly groomed terrain. The Sterling Lift will be operating tomorrow with 22 trails open with terrain for intermediates and experts. Birch Run Terrain Park is open.

Closing weekend is April 14th and 15th, we plan to have both the Madonna I lift and Sterling lift operating.

Come up and enjoy the great conditions!

Group therapy

Air time

Shadow dancing

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Fresh snow, more trails, and 139 acres of freshly groomed terrain

Posted March 3, 2018 at 8:21 am

Lower Morse Liftline

We have top to bottom skiing and riding on all 3 mountains with all 8 lifts operating. We now have 50 trails open with terrain for all ability levels. We received 3 inches of new snow in the past 24 hours and 6 inches in the past week. The Extreme Skiing Challenge is being held today on Full Nelson. The Teton Gravity Research Stokemobile is in front of the Base Lodge today, stop by and check it out. Upper Pipeline, Poacher’s Woods, Hangman’s, and Upper Exhibition are now open. 35 trails have been groomed for today, including Upper FIS, Smugglers’ Alley, and Snow Snake.

The Village Lift