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Natural snow and snowmaking

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Upper Chilcoot with snow covered trees

Snowmaking

Snowmaking resumes on Morse Mountain today. Tonight we plan to make snow on Sir Henry’s, Magic Learning Trail, Garden Path, Snow Snake, and the top of Morse. Tomorrow we plan to make snow on Garden Path, Lower Morse Liftline, and Snow Snake.

New Snow

We received an inch of new snow today, 11 inches in the past week, and 142 inches this season so far.

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Snowmaking on Morse

Lifts and Trails

Tomorrow we plan to have top to bottom skiing and riding on all 3 mountains with 7 lifts operating. We now have 32 trails open with terrain for all ability levels. 27 trails will be groomed for tomorrow, including Lower Chilcoot, Dixie’s Knoll, and Smugglers’ Alley for a grand total of 116 acres of freshly groomed terrain. Surface conditions are machine groomed and variable with average base depths of 12 to 40 inches.

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19 inches of new snow in the past 3 days!

 

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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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Fantastic start to the season!

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Leigh finds the goods in the woods

Tons of Terrain

Today we had 58 trails open for experts and intermediates. Sir Henry’s Learning Hill is also open for beginners. We are 74 percent open which means that we have 240 acres of trails open and with our open woods policy that brings the total to around 700 acres!  Woods between open trails are also open terrain. If you ski or ride in the woods you should be an expert and stay in groups of 3 or more.

Great Conditions

I ran into my good friend Leigh this morning in Parking Lot 1. We had a blast skiing Madonna and Sterling. We warmed up our legs skiing Upper Exhibition. We jumped into the woods for our next run and were blown away with the amount of snow. We headed up Madonna next to take on Freefall and the Black Hole. We skied Freefall from the top and then cut into the Black Hole. The snow in the Black Hole is really deep and I was able to find some sweet fresh turns.

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Upper Exhibition

Tonight’s events

5:00 pm – 5:30 pm – Join us on the Village Green for a Hot Chocolate Warm-up and Bonfire with Mogul Mouse and Goodtime Charlie, s’mores, glow sticks and wine tasting with Boyden Valley Winery.
5:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Post Thanksgiving Day Dinner at Morse Mountain Grille.
5:30 pm – 6:00 pm – Cirque De Fuego, Vermont’s premiere fire performers.
6:15 pm Fireworks over Morse Mountain and Santas arrival.
6:45 pm – 7:30 pm Join Santa in FunZone 2.0 for cookies and lemonade .
7:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Game Show Showdown in the Meeting House

Tomorrow

Sunday we plan to have both the Sterling lift and Sir Henry’s Magic Carpet operating with 32 trails open. 9 out of the 32 trails will be groomed for tomorrow, including Smugglers’ Alley for a grand total of 32 acres of freshly groomed terrain. Tomorrow’s forecast is calling for a chance of mixed precipitation with temperatures between 32 and 40 degrees.

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Today is the Opening Day of the 2018 – 2019 Winter Season!

 

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A great way to start the season off with tons of snow and sunshine!

We have 3 lifts operating the Madonna I lift, the Sterling lift, and Sir Henry’s Magic Carpet today. We have 58 trails open with the best coverage I’ve seen for this time of year! Sterling Mountain is 100 percent open and Madonna only has a few closed trails. The Madonna I lift is now loading and will be open till 2:00 pm this afternoon. We plan to have the Madonna I lift open tomorrow from 10:00 am till 2:00 pm again. Snowmaking continues on Morse Mountain with our snowmakers getting ready to light up Garden Path.

 

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Amazing conditions

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Official first chair of the season

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Sir Henry’s Learning Hill

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Snow Sport University Snowboard Lesson

We have 60 skiable trails and 37 lift accessible trails open today. The Madonna I lift is presently on wind hold. We have 3 lifts operating today Sterling, Mogul Mouse, and Sir Henry’s Wonder Carpet. 27 trails have been groomed for today, that’s 111 acres of freshly groomed terrain.