Vermont Skiing & Winter Weather
The back side of this most recent storm cycle seemed to show some promising potential for upslope snow in the Northern Greens, so this morning I made a quick survey of the snow reports from the resorts along the northern spine to see how things had worked out. With the Jay Peak snow report indicating …
When I headed up to Jay Peak yesterday and found that quality subsurface base snow with up to 16” of new Champlain Powder™ on top, it was hard not to think about going back for another visit. The snow just kept accumulating throughout the time I was there yesterday, but that wasn’t the end of …
Earlier this week when Winter Storm Uri hit the area, mixed precipitation pushed pretty far north, and we even got a bit of it up here in Northern Vermont. That put at least a mild crust atop the snow in our immediate area, but reports I’d been seeing indicated that the mixed precipitation really hadn’t …
All of Vermont has seen a number of modest snowfalls this past week, and with the squally nature of some of them, snow totals were quite variable at the ski resorts up and down the spine of the Greens. As is often the case though, the Jay Peak area did quite well in the snowfall …
A couple weeks back there was some great discussion in the Northern New England thread at the American Weather Forums about the Jay Peak backcountry conditions in areas like Gilpin Mountain and Domey’s Dome, so I was certainly looking to head up to that part of the Northern Greens for some touring when the opportunity …
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With its northern latitude, prodigious snowfall, and the Green Mountains spanning from Quebec in the north to Massachusetts in the south, Vermont offers virtually limitless opportunities to explore the backcountry in winter on snowshoes, Nordic, Telemark, alpine touring/randonnée, or splitboard equipment. Elevations in the state range from near sea level in the lowest valleys, to …