Archives: November 2018

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A Snovember to Remember

Posted at 4:27 pm
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Strawberry Fields

Top to bottom on all 3 mountains

Weather permitting we plan to have top to bottom skiing and riding on all 3 mountains with 4 lifts operating.  Tomorrow the Sterling Lift will open at 8:00 am, the Madonna I Lift will open at 8:30 am, and Mogul Mouse’s Magic Lift will open at 9:00 am. Our trail count just doubled going from 32 to 64 trails! Sterling Mountain is 100 percent open. Madonna Mountain will only have Gary B’s, Ruthie’s, Shire, and Bermuda closed tomorrow, yes we plan to have all the double black diamond and triple black diamond trails open! Morse Mountain will have Garden Path, Magic Learning Trail, Wanderer, Lower Morse Liftline, and Sir Henry’s Learning Hill open.

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Black Bear

Weather

Tomorrow’s forecast is calling for mostly cloudy skies with temperatures between 21 and 33 degrees.

Conditions

20 out of the 64 open trails will be groomed for tomorrow, including Upper Drifter and Smugglers’ Alley for a grand total of 81 acres of freshly groomed terrain. Surface conditions are packed powder and powder with average base depths of 14 to 40 inches.

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Practice Slope

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Quality Family Time

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Rime ice on a tree branch. Soft rime formations have the appearance of white ice needles and scales; they are fragile and can be easily shaken off objects. Factors that favour soft rime are small drop size, slow accretion of liquid water, high degree of supercooling, and fast dissipation of latent heat of fusion. The opposite conditions favour ice with higher densities, such as hard rime or clear ice

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Sterling Rock

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Top to bottom skiing and riding on all 3 mountains this weekend!

Posted at 8:36 am
Mogul Mouse's Magic Lift

Mogul Mouse’s Magic Lift

This weekend we plan to have 4 lifts operating, the Madonna I Lift, the Sterling Lift, Sir Henry’s Glider, and the Mogul Mouse’s Magic Lift operating! Our trail count will double with the additional lifts operating this weekend. We are presently making snow on Upper Chilcoot and Waterfall. Today we have the Sterling Lift and Sir Henry’s Glider operating with 32 trails open. Sterling Mountain is 100 percent open. Sir Henry’s Learning Hill is groomed and open for beginners.  Surface conditions are packed powder and powder with average base depths of 16 to 48 inches. Today’s forecast is calling for increasing clouds with temperatures between 20 and 34 degrees.

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Smiles for miles

Posted at 4:46 pm

 

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAAnother amazing day here at Smuggs! It has been one of the most snow filled Novembers I can remember. The 4 inches of new snow that we received last night were smaller flakes, which made the snow surface denser. The denser snow skied like it was deeper than it was because it allowed you to float with less snow. I had two fantastic powder runs early this morning with my good friend Matt McCawley ( see the photos in post below).  I then got to ski with my good friends Geoff and Tony. Today was special because Tony turned 50 years young.  A great way to celebrate, making powder with your good friends!  OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAThis afternoon I took a couple runs with the Snow Sport University Supervisors. They were having fun training in the wonderful snow.

Snowmaking

The lines are charged and our snowmakers getting ready to make snow on Upper Chilcoot and Waterfall tonight.

Lifts and Trails

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERATomorrow we plan to have the Sterling Lift and Sir Henry’s Wonder Carpet operating. We have 32 trails open with base depths of 14 to 40 inches. Sir Henry’s Learning Hill is open for beginners. This weekend we plan to have the Madonna I lift operating which will almost double our trail count. 8 trails will be groomed for tomorrow, for a grand total of 30 acres of freshly groomed terrain.

Weather

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERATomorrow the forecast is calling for increasing clouds with temperatures between 20 and 34 degrees.

 

 

 

 

 

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More snow overnight

Posted at 7:40 am

We received another 4 inches of new snow last night, 10 inches in the past 24 hours, 28 inches in the past 3 days, and 86 inches this season so far! Sterling Mountain is 100 percent open with amazing conditions. More powder photos to come once the lifts are turning!

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Just keeps getting better!

Posted at 4:06 pm
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Top of the Notch Building at the summit of Sterling

Snow

We received 12 inches of new snow in the past 24 hours, 2 feet in the past 2 days, and 82 inches this season so far! There are snow showers in the forecast for tonight and tomorrow temperatures will be between 22 and 32 degrees. Surface conditions are powder and packed powder with average base depths of 14 to 40 inches.

Lifts and Trails

The Sterling lift and Sir Henry’s Wonder Carpet will be operating tomorrow with 32 trails open. Sir Henry’ s Learning Hill is open for beginners. This weekend we plan to have the Madonna I lift operating, which will almost double our trail count!

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Matt finds some nice snow on Practice Slope

Events

24th Annual BrewFest, Part 1 is Saturday, December 8th in the Meeting House from 6:00 pm till 10:00 pm. Our BrewFest highlights some of our state’s excellent breweries plus regional favorites and craft ciders. Enjoy samples from Stony Creek, Sierra Nevada, Sam Adams, Angry Orchard Cider, and Truly Spiked and Sparkling. If your tastes run closer to home, don’t miss samples from Vermont’s own Long Trail, Magic Hat, Otter Creek, Shed, Boyden Valley, Citizen Cider, Zero Gravity, and more. More breweries are being added; stay tuned! A DJ spins the tunes and the Mountain Grille puts on a tasty appetizer buffet. 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm in the Meeting House. For information go to our events page.

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Tony having fun in the glades

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Tim playing in the powder

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Bruce getting down on Full Nelson

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Manny loving all the fresh snow

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19 inches of new snow in the past 3 days!

Posted at 8:01 am

 

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Katie Wry happy to be back home for a visit

We received another 6 inches of new snow overnight on top of the 12 inches of snow that we received yesterday making our season total 76 inches! The conditions are just fantastic. Sterling Mountain is 100 percent open. Today we have the Sterling Lift and Sir Henry’s Wonder Carpet operating with 31 trail open. Sir Henry’s Learning Hill is open for beginners.

 

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Matt McCawley in the white room

 

 

 

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Nemo takes flight on Full Nelson

 

 

 

 

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Lindsey Ryan loving all the fresh snow

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How Now Pow Hound?!!

Posted at 11:56 am
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Deep Powder on Sterling Mountain. Photo by Hugh Johnson.

Rockin’ Ron Carter for Hugh. This has got to be one of the best Novembers on record, at least as far as snow goes… 66 inches of total accumulation and counting! More snow is in the forecast as well. I was talking to Mike McAdoo of Mtn Ops and he said today’s wet and heavy snow will definitely help out the base.  All the trails on Sterling Mountain are open today. We anticipate Madonna I running this coming weekend. Grab your skis and boards and hit the POW NOW!

Giant Chair with snow

Chair lift? All the chairs, even the big one in the Village, were covered in snow! Photo by Rockin’ Ron Carter.

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Another great day ending with some more snow

Posted at 5:06 pm
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Synchronized turns

Snow

We received another inch of new snow at the summit this afternoon bringing our season total up to 58 inches. There is snow in the forecast most of this week with up to a foot of new snow possible by Wednesday. Snow showers will continue for a couple of days with another system of snow showers coming in on Friday. Steadier cooler temperatures also for this week.

Lift and Trails

 

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Great conditions on Treasure Run

Tuesday we plan to have the Sterling lift and Sir Henry’s Wonder Carpet operating with 30 trails open. 6 trails will be groomed for tomorrow for a grand total of 24 acres of freshly groomed terrain. Weather permitting we plan to have the Madonna I lift operating again this weekend and all the snow in the forecast is going to help.

 

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The snow storm rolling in

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Snowmaker Dave Gagnon out having fun on the slopes

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Snow Reporter feeling groovy

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