Jim Schley

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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Saturday was a cold day, so we decided to hit the woods first thing and jumped into Slidebrook shortly after the North Lynx lift opened up. It was a fun run with a bit of fluff from a mid-week storm. The base depth was still pretty thin and included a mid-snowpack crust in places, making [...]

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20090110-IMG_0990, originally uploaded by jmurphy67. A decent mid-week storm dropped some nice heavy and dense snow making a pretty serious improvement to the trail conditions by Saturday. There was still some ice lurking here and there, but the primary surface was a nice packed powder. The base depths increased enough that they were able to [...]

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I was able to take the day after New Year’s off from work so I could enjoy a full day of skiing. Unfortunately the primary trail surface on the mountain was pretty slick and less than edgeable in many places. The exception was Stein’s Run where they were blowing snow, and the cold, dry air [...]

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Happy New Year! Woke up feeling pretty good on Thursday and exciting to go skiing. Unfortunately the thermometer read -5°F and the wind was howling. A quick check online showed all lifts shut down due to strong wind gusts coming from the North. There was word that Ski Patrol was stationed at the mid-mountain post [...]

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The skiing on Saturday was pretty good with halfway decent cover, but the heavy rains were a bit depressing. We had some nice, soft, easy turns up on Middle Earth and Liftline on Castlerock, though, and we fully enjoyed it. In the end, we were soaked through our 3-layer Gore-Tex but content with the skiing. [...]

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