We had our first reported snow of the season here in Vermont over a month ago when flakes were spotted atop Jay Peak, but this latest round of winter weather has now brought us the first actual accumulations of the season. Our initial images of the accumulations came out yesterday morning when Powderfreak sent out some shots from the higher elevations of Mt. Mansfield during his usual Stowe Mountain Resort duties. Later in the day he sent along a nice image of the cloud ceiling and flakes falling on Spruce Peak while he was out on an afternoon hike. The snow was down to at least the 3,100’ elevation as of the afternoon, and with more moisture pushing into the spine of the Greens according to the radar, the potential for some additional overnight accumulations was looking good. The moisture seemed to be drifting a bit south though, and I saw a comment from Powderfreak that he felt the Central and Southern Greens would have the better chances for accumulations during the overnight period.
A shot from Killington’s North Ridge Webcam of today’s new snow during our period of first snow accumulations for the 2024-2025 winter season. Accumulations began in the area yesterday and the Central Green Mountain s picked up some of the best snows overnight.
Ty dives into the Outlaw woods during today’s Bolton ski outing as we take on the snow from the third day of Winter Storm Tormund
Today was the third day of our ongoing storm cycle, and Winter Storm Tormund has now brought Bolton’s storm total to 32 inches after another few overnight. E and I headed up for a morning session of turns with Ty, and it was a great chance to see how conditions were looking as the system began to wind down. Bolton wasn’t kicking off lift service from the Vista Quad until 10:00 A.M., so there was no need to rush up to the mountain first thing in the morning. As a bonus, the Wilderness Chair was opening at 10:30 A.M. for the first time since the storm cycle started, so that represented a nice opportunity to get into some fresher snow.
Snow was starting to mix with and change to rain in the valleys when we headed up to the mountain, but the snow line was still relatively low overall – certainly below 1,500’. More snow continued to fall all morning while we were out on the mountain, but it was of moderate to only occasionally heavy intensity. The clouds were also not as thick as they’d been earlier, and at times the weather was a mix of sun and snow, so the snowfall wasn’t accumulating as efficiently as it had over the previous couple of days. The upside of the thinner clouds was that the light intensity was much higher than it had been, so it made for some easier action photography. There was some wind when we first arrived up at the resort, and it really set up an overly wintry feel, but those winds dissipated before too long even up near the summits, and it started to feel more like a late-season ski day.
“Today was the third day of our ongoing storm cycle, and Winter Storm Tormund has now brought Bolton’s storm total to 32 inches after another few overnight.”
Since temperatures had come down overnight, the new accumulations of snow were once again drier than what had been falling yesterday afternoon, so like I’d experienced yesterday morning during my tour at Timberline, the quality of the powder this morning was better than it was in the afternoon. It does show the importance of typically getting out early for powder as we move through April, since the sunlight intensity is growing stronger, and it more easily affects the quality of the snow.
I brought E and Ty for a run through Vista Glades, since it had been so nice yesterday afternoon, and it delivered once again. Up at those elevations around 3,000’, the snowfall has been quite dry at any time of day, so you’re really getting some of the best conditions. We spent the rest of our session on Wilderness, taking advantage of all the new terrain it offered, and the lower traffic definitely helped supply a lot more fresh snow. Bolton Outlaw was skiing great, we had some nice turns in the Outlaw Woods, and a couple of great runs in the whole length of Wilderness Woods. We explored some of the tree skiing terrain to the skier’s left of Peggy Dow’s that was really nice, and that’s a place I don’t visit too often.
Ty surfing and slicing through our third day of Winter Storm Tormund powder
The freezing level seemed to be climbing as our session continued. Toward the end of the morning, on each run it seemed that the snow began to get wetter at a higher elevation. It did keep snowing all morning, but it was comfortable with the lack of wind and there was certainly an “April” feel to the storm today because it didn’t have as much bite as a midwinter one. It looks like we’ll be moving out of the wintry conditions into more spring-like conditions in the coming days based on the forecast, so it should be fun to see how the snow changes. The snowpack should have some extra staying power after all these substantial late-season storms though.
Dylan out for some Friday afternoon turns enjoying the continued fresh snow from Winter Storm Tormund
When I left home this morning, I’d packed an assortment of skis on the roof rack because I wanted to be ready to roll with whatever Winter Storm Tormund decided to throw at us for the next rounds of snowfall. Full fat Teles were definitely the call for ski touring at Timberline this morning, and with the snowfall continuing throughout the day, stopping off for some lift-served turns this afternoon seemed like a good way to mix things up and take advantage of the nicely shifted schedule that Bolton is now offering. This afternoon before heading home from Burlington, I sent out a text to the family letting them know that I was heading to the mountain, and to see if anyone wanted to meet up for some turns if they were going to be there. Erica had let me know that Dylan might be heading up for some Friday afternoon turns, so I’d been watching my phone for an update about his plans. Low and behold, just as I’m heading down French Hill on I-89 in Williston, a red Subaru with a bunch of gear on the ski rack passes by on the left. It looked suspiciously like Dylan’s car, and before I knew it, I got a text indicating that he and his friends were right in front of me. Well, that settled that with respect to whether I’d be able to meet up for turns!
Significant rainfall in the lower valleys meant plentiful snow up higher in the mountains in places like the Bolton Valley Village.
It was raining steadily as we drove through the lower valleys on our way to the mountain, and naturally we hoped that meant there was some nice snowfall occurring at elevation. Indeed, the snow line was pretty low, switching quickly to snow before we even hit 1,000’ on the Bolton Valley Access Road. Up in the Village, it was snowing hard – much harder than what I’d encountered when I’d been out ski touring this morning. The resort was busy with visitors, but there were enough people coming and going this afternoon that we were quickly able to get a couple of parking spots right near each other in the top row of the main lot.
An upper window of the The Inn at Bolton Valley reveals some of the recent accumulations from Winter Storm Tormund.
Based on what I was expecting in terms of snow and powder conditions, I grabbed my fat alpine boards for the session, since I knew we’d be encountering a lot more tracked conditions in all the dense new snow, and I figured we’d take full advantage of the opportunities the resurfacing would give us to jump into steep terrain.
Jack out today on the hill reaching for his next turn and enjoying the bounty of Winter Storm Tormund.
Main lift service for the afternoon was off the Vista Quad, so we hit a bunch of fun, steeper terrain like Vista Glades and Vermont 200 that made good use the resurfacing. Vista Glades was excellent, with all its stumps, rocks, ledges, bumps, and whatever other obstacles it contains well buried under a deep base and the thick layers of fresh snow. It offered lots of swooping and rolling terrain that made for a great ride. Even at higher elevations, the snow was a bit denser than what I’d encountered in my morning tour due to the warming of the day. Now that we were rolling into the second day of the storm cycle, plenty of folks had obviously been out enjoying the systems bounty, so we were mostly skiing tracked and packed snow, but it was skiing beautifully. The higher you went, the drier the snow was, but it was still quite decent down to even 2,000’. We did jump into some untracked areas of powder as well, and that snow was certainly skiing denser than it had in the morning, but it was still plenty dry for some nice powder turns.
The powder has definitely dried out a bit as Winter Storm Tormund rolls on, but I still took advantage of the nice steeps of the Spell Binder Headwall on today’s tour, and it definitely delivered.
With Winter Storm Tormund still churning out the snow today, I decided to head up to the mountain for some turns in the morning. For Bolton’s schedule at this time of year, the lifts don’t start running until noon on weekdays, so ski touring was the natural choice for morning turns. I was initially undecided about whether I was going to tour at Wilderness or on the Backcountry Network, but I ultimately didn’t end up touring in either place. On my way up the Bolton Valley Access Road, I was passing by Timberline and suddenly realized… duh, that was the place to tour! I’ve been touring almost exclusively out of Bolton’s main base area this season because of the access to the superior snowpack depth and snow quality provided by being able to start above the 2,000’ elevation. The snow depth and quality down at the base of Timberline at 1,500’ just hasn’t been there until very recently, and it had been so long since I toured down there, I’d almost forgotten it existed. But when the snow is good, you can’t beat the convenience of ski touring at Timberline with its shorter drive and immediate access to nicely-pitched terrain, so once I was reminded, I jumped at the chance to start my tour there.
Partially-sheltered chairs lined up behind the Timberline Base Lodge have take on a bit of snow from ongoing Winter Storm Tormund
Skier traffic was light when I arrived at the base of Timberline, with about a half dozen cars or so in the parking areas. There was some snow falling when I started my tour, but at that point we were in a rather light phase of the ongoing storm cycle. I took depth measurements of the accumulations right at the Timberline Lodge as I was just beginning my ascent, and settled snow depths were right around 18 inches. From there, it seemed to increase by a couple of inches for each 500 feet of vertical gained. The resort was reporting 26 inches for a storm total at that point, and that would make sense for accumulations up around 3,000’ based on my measurements from those slightly lower elevations. Temperatures had cooled off overnight, so the most recent accumulations were drier and knocked the skiing up a notch relative to what I’d found yesterday afternoon. Overall, it was still a moderately dense accumulation of new snow, but it had a little better gradient of density for powder turns.
This chair outside the Timberline Base Lodge was a sign of the recent snows from Winter Storm Tormund that had hit Bolton Valley even down at the 1,500′ elevation.
As I ascending the Timberline skin track on Twice as Nice, I was gauging my options for the descent. Even with the slightly drier snow topping off the ongoing accumulations, I knew from yesterday that having enough pitch was still going to be important for optimal powder turns. I was leaning toward descending on Twice as Nice itself, since it has one of the most consistent pitches among the trail selections – it doesn’t have any heavy steeps, but it also doesn’t have the required compensatory flatter sections. My leaning changed when I watched a snowboard descending the trail with his dog, and I saw that he was bogged down and coming to a near standstill in one of the lower pitched areas. That was enough to convince me to head toward Spell Binder, where I knew I would at least get to sample the steep headwall section for some solid turns.
Evergreens near the Timberline Mid Station elevations adorned with hefty amounts of snow from Winter Storm Tormund
As expected, the headwall of Spell Binder absolutely delivered. The turns were surfy and buoyant in the roughly two feet of fresh powder, and I could absolutely feel the improvement that had come with that most recent drier snow topping off the rest of the accumulation. Just like yesterday afternoon, it was another session of plowing into the powder as deeply and aggressively as you wanted, and you were still nowhere near the subsurface. As a bonus, even the powder in the lower pitched areas skied fine, and I didn’t have any issues with speed. Either my 115 mm boards had surface area to spare for my weight relative to the snowboarder I’d seen, or he had some other issue (wax, etc.) keeping him from planing on those lower pitches. It was a great powder session to kick off the day, and with the storm continuing to roll along, it looks like there will be more fresh snow sessions on the way as we moved toward the weekend.
Dropping through the steeps of Devil’s Playground today at Bolton Valley thanks to 2+ feet of new snow from Winter Storm Tormund. Thanks to the density of the snow that fell atop snowpack from a long winter season, you could hit just about any terrain with reckless abandon and be well protected from any underlying obstacles.
I was too busy to get up to the mountain for turns this morning, but in terms of lift-served skiing at Bolton, that’s not an issue because their current midweek lift schedule is 12:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. It’s brilliant that they shifted to that schedule for lift operations, and they aren’t even using the lights for it because daylight simply lasts so long; their expansive western exposure really plays into that.
I did have time to get out for turns this afternoon though, and despite the substantial snows that are being deposited in the mountains and even all the way down to the lowest valleys, the road conditions have been quite nice with April sun intensity and temperatures near the freeing mark. It wasn’t until I was up around 2,000’ on the Bolton Valley Access Road that the road held any snow, and even then it was just a bit of slush with the help of plowing and salting, etc. It was snowing hard when I arrived at the mountain, probably in the inch per hour range, but nothing too outrageous, then it lightened up a bit as the afternoon wore on. There was some wind at times, but at other points it would be nearly calm, even up to elevations just below the ridgeline. Temperatures were in the upper 20 s F, or maybe a little lower than that in the summit areas, but it was comfortable in the way that you might expect April to deliver.
And the skiing… wow… what a resurfacing! I’m starting to lose count of the number of huge resurfacing storms we’ve had up here in the Northern Greens this season, but a quick look through my storm data from here at my site suggests the mountains have had at least 10 of them with an inch or more of liquid equivalent. That’s pretty impressive for a season that has been struggling to reach average snowfall around here, and it really gets one thinking about what an above average season can produce, since I don’t think we’ve had a solidly above average one since ’18-’19. In any event, I guess average to even a bit below average snowfall is certainly appreciated around here when it delivers like this.
So we’ve had a decent number of these resurfacing storms this season, but this one… Winter Storm Tormund, it really put down a shellacking of the slopes. As soon as I dropped into my first few turns off the Vista Summit, I knew; there had to be at least two inches of liquid equivalent in that snow. This wasn’t just your typical “nice, this is definitely keeping me off the subsurface” type of snowfall, this was on that next level. This snow laughed at the thought of you getting anywhere near the subsurface. We’ve had about an inch and a half of liquid equivalent in the snow thus far down here at the house, and with the way that snow skied on the mountain this afternoon, they’re obviously well above that.
The early morning report from the resort was 6 to 8 inches of new snow, so I was surprised with how deep it was when I was up there this afternoon. I routinely measured 16 to 20 inches off the Vista trails, with 24 inches common in some areas. I even got some 30-inch measurements, although those could easily have been in hollows or due to a little drifting. Bolton is reporting 24 inches as their top measurement as of this afternoon, and I’d say that’s right in line with what I found out there. The snow isn’t wet, nor is it super dense, but it’s dense enough that you are well protected from hitting anything below. As is typical with this type of snow, the best powder skiing required substantial pitch, and this type of resurfacing just begs for you to ski the steep stuff anyway, so I obliged and hit the really steep lines off Vista. The super steep sections of Devil’s Playground were a hoot – I always forget just how steep they are, but with this snow you can simply drop in and fly with reckless abandon.
Winter Storm Tormund really meant business in the local mountains – I was finding new snow depths in the range of 20 to 30 inches when I was out for my session at Bolton Valley today.
With the amount of liquid that’s already gone into the snowpack with this storm cycle, this is a major boost for the spring skiing season – at least with respect to the natural snow trails. The snowmaking terrain always lasts no matter what we get for spring storms, but having storms like these just bring more natural snow options to the table for much longer. And Winter Storm Tormund isn’t over yet according to the forecasts – it looks like it continues right into the weekend, so the storm totals and contribution to the snowpack will hopefully increase further over the next couple of days. Bolton was at 324 inches of snowfall on the season as of this afternoon, so it’s at least shaping up to be in the average range at this point.
A view of the snowpack and the skin track as I make my way up into the Gotham City area during today’s ski tour
Today was another chance to take advantage of the new snow from Winter Storm Ronnie, and I had time in the morning to head up to the mountain for some turns. Based on the incredible numbers of visitors yesterday, I figured that untracked lines would be few and far between on the lift served terrain, so I decided to hit the Bolton Valley Nordic & Backcountry Network for a ski tour and get some exercise.
The morning weather was very similar to what we’d been gifted yesterday – sunny, with little wind and temperatures a bit below freezing. I didn’t have time to head all the way up to Bryant Cabin, but I was able to go for a nice loop up the Bryant Trail, onto Coyote, and then up to Gotham City on my tour. With the number of visitors yesterday, I thought that even the backcountry terrain might be heavily tracked up, but that wasn’t the case – there had been a moderate amount of activity, and plenty of untracked lines remained.
There was excellent powder to be found, and I’d say it was just as good as yesterday – if it was protected from the sun. Even with temperatures generally below freezing yesterday, the clear and sunny skies with that late March sun angle were too much for the snow. I suspect the situation was somewhat better if you went high enough in elevation, but least in the 2,000’ to 2,500’ elevation band where I was skiing, areas that had seen direct sun had a substantial sun crust. The effect of the sun was potent enough that it absolutely wrecked the powder skiing in those exposed areas, and it was such a thick and semi-breakable crust in places that the skiing was extremely challenging there. Thankfully, if you skied shaded snow, the powder was in beautiful shape, so I certainly stuck to those lines as much as possible. We’ll likely be warming up at all elevations this week with some spring-like weather, but we may have another substantial storm cycle coming in next week to bring back more spring powder skiing.
A Google Earth map with GPS tracking data from today’s ski tour on the Bolton Valley Nordic & Backcountry Network
Ty launches out of the powder as we navigate our way through some of the Sure Shot trees during today’s outing. Winter Storm Ronnie may have initially left us powder that was somewhat upside-down, but it improved a lot as the system pulled away and granted us with some drier champagne on the back side of the storm cycle.
This weekend has been an interesting dichotomy of days with Winter Storm Ronnie coming through – yesterday was an absolute blitz of a storm day as that session’s photos indicate, but the storm had departed by today and it was just one of those clear, calm, quiet, midwinter days with perfect temperatures that were just a bit below freezing.
I used the term “quiet” to describe the weather, but that in no way described the number of visitors to the mountain. We arrived right around the opening time for Timberline, and the cars were already pouring into the resort. I’m not sure about the lore behind nobody skiing after President’s week, but the number of people out today clearly revealed that such an idea is a crock. People continued to come to the resort all morning, and by the time we left in the late morning period, Bolton had an employee stationed at the bottom of the Bolton Valley Access Road and cars were backed up onto Route 2. I’ve seen them station someone at the bottom of the road when the road conditions are extremely difficult, or the resort is not running the lifts due to power/storm issues, but that wasn’t the case this time – there were just so many people coming to the resort that the parking was bursting at the seams. To punctuate just how many people were skiing around here, my friend Dave even came up from Boston to crash overnight last night at our place because he was skiing Sugarbush today. Apparently, everyone wanted to get out to ski after Winter Storm Ronnie.
Ty slices through some of the powder left by Winter Storm Ronnie during today’s outing at Bolon Valley
“And, when I see an image from today’s session like the one I chose as the feature for this report/post, with Ty blasting through waist to chest-deep powder, I guess it’s hard to complain too much about the powder not being as outrageously perfect as it might have been.”
In any event, the skiing was great, but the only thing that really stood out as exceptional was the weather. The snow had dried out and potentially consolidated in its lower levels somewhat overnight, and a bit of lighter snow had fallen as the storm departed, so the powder was not nearly as upside-down as it had been yesterday. The resurfacing had mostly been completed by the end of the day yesterday, but as of today Bolton was reporting a storm total of 16 inches, and based on my own liquid analyses from down in the valley at our place, the were 1 to 2 inches of liquid equivalent in there. I’ve definitely been hearing talk of it being the best day of the season, but that was mostly hyperbole with respect to conditions around here in the Northern Greens. If you just went by the snow quality and powder skiing, it probably sneaks into the top 10 in terms of great days because of the weather factor, but it really doesn’t come anywhere near the top five. Even this season, which seems to be running a bit below average in terms of snowfall, there have just been too many storm cycles that finished off with quality champagne over a substantial based and a good front end of dense snow that knock today down several spots in terms of the powder skiing. It was still and excellent day to be out on the slopes though; it’s not every storm that we get that sort of weather right as the system departs. And, when I see an image from today’s session like the one I chose as the feature for this report/post, with Ty blasting through waist to chest-deep powder, I guess it’s hard to complain too much about the powder not being as outrageously perfect as it might have been.
Dylan charges through some of the fresh powder as Winter Storm Ronnie rages on during our session at Bolton Valley today
Starting in the wee hours of the morning today, Winter Storm Ronnie began delivering snow, and once things got going, heavy snowfall pounded the mountains all day. In our area, the snowflakes coming in from the system were relatively small, and my early morning liquid analyses from the snow revealed that it was a fairly synoptic-like 12.0 to 1 snow to liquid ratio. That ratio actually dropped as the storm continued through the day, with a 10.6 to 1 ratio for my afternoon analysis, and an 8.4 to 1 ratio for my evening analysis. Despite the relatively small flakes, the snowfall was still in the inch per hour range or more, so there was a lot of liquid coming out of the sky. The very heavy snowfall and small flakes made for some very tough photography out on the mountain today, but we still fired away to get what we could.
Erica comes over a rise and eyes her next section of powder during our morning session at Timberline today.Will blasts between a couple of trees during today’s session – a snowboard was a great tool for riding in today’s dense snow on the front end of Winter Storm Ronnie
Although the storm was still in progress and we’d only received a portion of the anticipated accumulation by the time the lifts started running this morning at Bolton, we still kicked things off with an early start. We were worried about making the ascent of the Bolton Valley Access Road today with the heavy snowfall, but an uphill plow run had been done fairly recently, so it was actually quick and painless getting up to the Timberline Base. We quickly met up with Stephen and Johannes, and Dylan and his friend Will from college as well, so we had a party of six exploring the mountain.
There didn’t appear to be much elevation dependence with the snowfall, so we were happy to hang down at the relatively lower elevations of Timberline and make use of the great terrain there. While there hadn’t been a call for much wind with this storm, it was still blowing quite hard, and that was another incentive to stay down at the Timberline elevations for a while. We eventually did move up to the main mountain, skiing both Wilderness and Vista, and even by the summits up above 3,000’ the wind was similar to what we’d experienced down at Timberline. As the morning moved on, the wind decreased substantially to the point where it wasn’t even a factor.
Dylan surfs through the trees and carves at speed – it was fresh tracks all the time and just about anywhere at the resort today with the continued heavy snowfall from Winter Storm Ronnie all morning.
In terms of the ski conditions, the moderately dense snow had already put down an excellent resurfacing even for the first runs in the morning. The new snow was atop recent rounds of snow from previous storms, so that presumably helped, and with snowfall continuing all day at around an inch per hour, the trails were constantly getting refreshed. The resurfacing made the quality of the on piste turns quite impressive aside from scoured or very high traffic areas, but the powder skiing off piste left something to be desired. With the dense snow falling, the powder was somewhat upside-down, and its density allowed you to easily get bogged down on anything but steep terrain. That’s not to say that the powder skiing wasn’t still tons of fun, but you could tell it wasn’t up to the typical standards of a storm cycle in the Northern Greens where the snow gradually lightens into upslope fluff and really sets up some top notch powder.
All in all, though, it was an excellent session of storm day skiing at the resort. We stopped in for lunch with Dylan and Will at Fireside Flatbread and had some excellent pizza – I got to try their barbeque chicken bacon ranch pizza that Dylan has been raving about. There weren’t any substantial lift queues to speak of today, and it was likely that the ongoing storm kept some people from venturing out to the mountains. The drive down the access road was fairly tough when we finally left in the afternoon, so I can understand why that would keep some folks home, perhaps hoping to come out tomorrow if the storm winds down.
With inch-per hour snowfall hitting the mountain today, our car was well covered after just a few hours of skiing and riding.
Solidly heavy snowfall at the Bolton Valley base area elevations today gave way to very heavy snowfall coming down at over 2 inches per hour in the summit areas
In Bolton Valley’s lift rotation schedule, today was the first time the Wilderness Chair would be running since the weekend, so it was a good place to be to get in on all the snow that’s fallen in the past couple of days. So, after ski touring yesterday, today seemed like a good opportunity for some lift-served turns with Wilderness thrown in.
It was snowing all the way down to the valleys this morning, but not necessarily accumulating too efficiently in the lower elevations. Up above 2,000’ in the Village though, snow was accumulating easily. Snowfall was moderate and steady in roughly the ½” to 1”/hr. range when I first arrived, but by the time I’d made my first run and worked my way over to Wilderness, it had picked up substantially to somewhere in the 2”/hr. range. It was the type of snowfall that covers you in white flakes in mere moments if you aren’t moving around on the lift enough to shake it off.
Even areas that had been groomed were taking on additional snow and had seen a solid resurfacing from all the recent snows.
As might be expected with substantial snow falling day after day, the ski conditions are excellent out there right now. There’s still firm snow that you can find on piste in high traffic areas and steeper slopes, but just head off to untracked or lightly tracked areas, and you won’t really be interacting at all with the old base. I found that even well-groomed areas could be really nice – my first run down Alta Vista was on the groomed surface, but it hadn’t seen much skier traffic at all, and there had been at least another couple of inches of snow since it was groomed, so the turns were all silky smooth with no noise anywhere. Off piste I found about a foot of powder up in the 3,000’ range, and slightly less down around 2,000’, but there’s enough liquid equivalent in all the new snow now that it will support bottomless turns throughout that elevation range.
Wilderness was skiing really well thanks to the especially low skier traffic in recent days, and they had Bolton Outlaw open, which I hadn’t skied in quite a while. It’s steep enough and has probably seen enough traffic from ski touring that I was still contacting the old base, but I was able to cut over to the steep terrain of the Wilderness Liftline Headwall, and that was nearly untracked and yielded excellent turns. The Wilderness Chair stopped three times in fairly short order when I was nearing the Wilderness Summit on one of my runs, and I thought that it might be due to wind issues, but the lift operator at the base let me know that it was just issues with people loading – apparently they were still working out the shape of the loading ramp there. All that new snow can bring about complications that I never would have thought of.
Evergreens around the mountain today bore the fruits of continued rounds of recent snowfall.
The snowpack in the Northern Greens is in good shape – the depth at the Mt. Mansfield Stake passed 80 inches today, so these recent storms have helped it cruise right above average for this time of year. There’s still more snow in the forecast right through the weekend, so it wouldn’t be surprising if the snowpack depth increased further in the coming days.
The rounds of snow just keep rolling through the area, and the Snow Squall Warning put out by the National Weather Service Office in Burlington is just what you’d expect as the heavy snow hits the western slopes of the Northern Greens
