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It's funny you say that... I have gotten to a point where I can ski almost anything, somewhat artfully (though this is a subject of considerable debate) on downhill skis, but I hadn't been on cross country skis in... um... ashamed to say, 25 years, till last Saturday night, when we went out by...

My experiences at the River haven't been very good over the years, including the only significant injury of my skiing career, on White Heat, which should have been called "Ice Sheet". There was no snow anywhere, just blue ice. I skidded out, lost an edge, sat down, and skittered along on a...

Mike, Waterville does still offer telemark lessons, if you end up up this way. There are several good tele instructors at WV, including Dutch, Bjorn, Clarence, or Bill Powell. I don't know Dutch or Bjorn, but Clarence and Bill are friends -- good teachers and good guys to ski with. Lessons...

Waterville Valley saw about 1" of snow followed by non-accumulating mixed precip through the day yesterday. Picked up about 2" of fairly dense snow overnight last night. I would have called the storm total at 1500 feet to be about 3", maybe 4". WV Resort is calling it 6" but may have been...

Agreed on both accounts, MadRiver. I think that the local PDs are pretty lenient with residents in general... we all have to live together, and I guess they hope we learn the first time. I had the blues blinked at my by the WV police once the first year, which was enough to get me to turn over...

It did... Mike (MFurgal64) was grilling last night and kept coming in to report "transparent snow", which was kind of harshing my mellow. It was really beating down at midnight, but it apparently shifted, briefly, back over to snow in the wee hours as there is a dusting on top of whatever we...

Waterville Valley: 8" through Saturday morning, another 16" Sunday AM through this AM. Total of about 24" for the weekend, on top of a few inches last week... there's a lot of snow out there. I was knee-deep in fluff when I went out to extract my car half an hour ago -- and I am 6' 2" tall...

Going strong in WV at 2:30pm... Probably 8" down, and now the winds are starting to swirl. NWS has upgraded snow totals in their latest forecast, could be as much as 20" by tomorrow AM. It's very light fluff, and as early as noon, it was snowing hard enough to fill in tracks between runs at...

Oooo, good one. 1. Everest Base Camp, Tibetan side, with my kids 2. Diving on the Great Barrier Reef 3. Heliskiing in BC 4. Mountain biking in Moab, Utah 5. Rafting in the Grand Canyon

My wife reported 4-5" of fresh powder in Waterville Valley at 8am. The radar looks like it will continue for several more hours, so another couple inches seem likely. I think I will be glad I went with the "seasonal plow" not the "per storm plow".

Not intending to fire the "doom flares" -- but I personally was surprised at the change in the forecast between yesterday AM (when it was cooling off with possible snow-showers off and on throughout week) to this morning (1-3" Tuesday night, with 4-6" more tomorrow in the southern Whites). If...

Nope -- no slush -- it's 8 degrees at 1500 feet in Waterville Valley right now. At this elevation, we had about 3" of snow before the rain/sleet/freezing rain started on Thursday night. Most of that stayed around, thoroughly saturated, all day yesterday and has now set up to a solid, but not...

For what it's worth, if you are thinking of heading north -- it's turned into a beautiful day up here... High, puffy, fast-moving clouds and bright blue sky. For what ever reason, the major icing missed us in the southern Whites, so we have electricity and all the modern conveniences. Just be...

After a promising start, this one went over to an ugly bust: wet, sloppy, freezing mix all night at 1500 feet. The couple of inches of snow that fell through about 7pm last night are still there -- but are thoroughly saturated. It's 34 right now... if it cools off (and it's supposed to), this...

Road Report -- Boston to Whites Thu 12/11 PM... Left Boston at 2:30pm -- light rain, temp in low 30s Light rain and moderate traffic all the way to NH border, temps around freezing Light rain and 31 through Hooksett, though no signs of glazing Light freezing rain in Concord, 30 degrees...

--M: Livermore - Tripoli were skiable until last night -- the resort had snowmoble-packed and / or groomed 24km of trails through Tuesday. The base in groomed areas was probably four to six inches. Based on HikeBikeFishSki's report from Sandwich last weekend, it might have been more than that...

Thanks, Matt... If you're traveling through central NH this AM, keep in mind that the temperature varies wildly. In addition to the 47-degree swing since this time yesterday, we observed the following conditions between Waterville Valley and southern NH this AM: WV -- 1500 feet -- 47 degrees...

Based solely on the view from 49 this AM, wouldn't bet the cover up in the Smart's Brook network would be very consistent -- at 1500 feet in WV, there is a pretty consistent 3" of consolidated snow, and probably more in the woods. However, that amount seems to drop fast as you go down in...

Unfortunately, we have one of those fellows in Waterville Valley... great big old boar who seems to live up in the South End of the XC trail network. He's frequently sighted making the rounds of the dumpsters in the condo complexes or heading for Town Square -- I believe he is to blame for...

One sighting on trail -- on Livermore Road, just below South Slide cutoff, 4th of July weekend a couple years ago. I was riding up on my mountain bike, making what I assumed was God's own amount of noise between the clanking of the bike parts and my huffing and puffing... so imagine my surprise...