Jim Schley

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } IMG_0671, originally uploaded by jimschley. The weather threatened on Saturday, but the morning was pretty good. There were clouds, but it was warm enough for decent skiing on nice corn snow. [...]

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } IMG_0656, originally uploaded by jimschley. Despite the lack of snow in March and recent wet weather, there was still lots of snow at the mountain. In fact a good amount of [...]

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Great day, great crowd, originally uploaded by pdbreen. The month of March was pretty pathetic for skiers. It really just didn’t snow very much. On the plus side, we did get a bunch of beautiful sunny, warm days with decent Spring conditions. Saturday was killer. It was a beautiful day, and it was finally warm [...]

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Sugarbush – March 15, 2009, originally uploaded by jimschley. March in Vermont has been lacking in the snowfall department which has meant an early start to Spring skiing. The upside is that we saw beautiful weather to be outside under bright sunshine and warm temperatures. The start of Daylight Savings Time and the conditions meant [...]

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When we arrived in the Mad River Valley on the last Friday in February to 45 degree temps after driving through lots of rain, I knew the skiing wasn’t going to be great, but waking up a few hours later to 5 degrees temps was just a kick in the ass. Sugarbush did a great [...]

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As we took the long President’s Day weekend off from skiing to make a little trip to Florida, I was pretty convinced that we’d be missing out on stellar skiing because that’s normally how it works. Turns out the skiing was marginal while we were away, and we returned to what was unequivocally an epic [...]

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Cold and dry weather in the week leading up to the weekend meant conditions were decent in most places and a bit worn in others. The wind was the big problem on Saturday, however, as a front bringing much warmer temps rolled in. We were able to get one run in on Heaven’s Gate before [...]

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Powder Day 1/31/2009, originally uploaded by jimschley. A big storm on Wednesday and Thursday dumped 21″ at Sugarbush followed by a surprise 8″ dump on Friday night had me itching to get on the mountain. The first storm left a deep, dense snowpack of dry snow. It was a substantial dumping that did a great [...]

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Despite very cold temps on Saturday, we got in a very full ski day starting out with a recently groomed Steins. I’m not sure it got out of the low single digits, and frostbite was a big concern. Unfortunately, the warm temps that got slightly above freezing on Friday followed by the deep freeze really [...]

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