Monthly Archives: December 2010

Bolton Valley, VT 31DEC2010

Today our friend Dave came up from Boston for a skiing visit, arriving in the late morning with his dogs.  Like yesterday, we headed up to the mountain around midday, and the found that the trend of moderating temperatures had … Continue reading

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Bolton Valley, VT 30DEC2010

After Tuesday’s great outing with the boys, the whole family headed out for more turns today.  The skies had been somewhat gray on yesterday, but the sun was back today and consistent with the forecast trends, the temperatures were climbing … Continue reading

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Bolton Valley, VT 28DEC2010

After finding excellent snow conditions at Timberline near the end of the Nor’easter yesterday afternoon, it looked like lift-served skiing was going to be fantastic on today.  E was a little under the weather and wanted to get some things … Continue reading

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Bolton Valley, VT 27DEC2010

It turns out that Northern Vermont wasn’t really the jackpot for this Nor’easter, but we did get into some of the snowfall.  As of 6:00 A.M. this morning we’d picked up 1.1 inches of snow down at the house that … Continue reading

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Bolton Valley, VT 24DEC2010

The boys opened up some early Christmas presents today, so there was no way I was getting them up to the hill, but I was able to join up with Stephen and his kids for some turns.  In the past … Continue reading

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Bolton Valley, VT 23DEC2010

We contemplated heading to Smuggler’s Notch today to use some free vouchers, but opted for Bolton Valley instead when they won out with snow accumulations.  Bolton reported 7 inches of new snow, and based on my analyses from the house, … Continue reading

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Bolton Valley, VT 19DEC2010

We had a busy day of holiday-related activities planned today, so I headed out early to earn some powder turns up at Bolton Valley before things got going.  Although I’d been hearing great things about the snow at Timberline, and … Continue reading

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Bolton Valley, VT 18DEC2010

We had one of those weeks where it snowed almost continuously at the house and in the local mountains, but there haven’t been any huge synoptic storms to make people really stand up and take notice.  We’ve actually had over … Continue reading

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Stowe, VT 12DEC2010

E and I headed out to Stowe yesterday for the school program training session, wondering what we were going to experience in terms of weather.  Happily, the first flakes appeared just after we arrived at around 8:00 A.M., the snowfall … Continue reading

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Bolton Valley, VT 11DEC2010

It had been more than a week, but last week’s virtually endless upslope snowfall finally came to a stop yesterday.  However, another small system passed through the area last night.  It wasn’t supposed to deliver much, but when I looked … Continue reading

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