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We went out and schussed Nemo for an hour or so this morning. What a treat!

We’ll have more content later as we see what happens, but for now here’s a quick POV from today. GIT SUM!
Snow totals so far:
WHITEFACE: …

Monday AM update. (Again UT update is on page 2)
I’m sick. I’m angry. I had to miss what was prob. a great dawn patrol today. My head feels like it is in f fishbowl. I blame this jerk. Carbonara. …

juuux
verb (used with object) 
1. to make a move that blocks ones intended result;  2. to muddle or botch
noun 
1. nonesense, rubbish, fake
interjection 
1. an exclamation of annoyance
Why am I defining a word with THREE VOWELS?!?! Good question.
It’s because The Admiral, ahem, Ben …

And now The Suits will continue their report on the Inspection Week of the Utah Bureau of the FIS. For this aspect of the inspection The Suits went in depth into the Utah Bureau’s knowledge of Backside, a region of …

When the days start to get long and the eastern snowpack is on it’s way out, I load up my Subie and hightail it West for some Rocky Mountain schuss-action. Corn snow and open season on peaks that usually …

There’s been a lot of complaining in the Wasatch recently. Although this might just reinforce the “spoiled Wasatch skier” stereotype, there’s some merit to it. It hasn’t snowed substantially in two weeks, and the settled snow is both shallow and …

Hot-Damn! It feels like it’s been a long time since I wrote about freezing weather and frankly I’ve started to miss you guys. It’s been quite a ride since we last talked and you know what….I’m ready for the …

This is a guest trip report written by my good friend and longtime skiing partner Noah Harwood. Noah recently moved to Boulder, CO, and has had a great spring of skiing in the abundant backcountry locales of the Front Range. …

Enjoy that warm up? I hope so because all signs point to at least a two week return to winter. Starting this week, snow showers, cold temps, northwinds and cloudy days will return. And what a better way to kick …

2/26/11 – HOLY SH*T update
Look…either the collins plot is messed up or something seriously magical just went down up at Alta.
What am I talking about? Well look at these precip totals for the last two hours:

.6 inches of precip in …

Update on totals:
Jay Peak: 9”
Burke: 12”
Smuggler’s Notch: 10”
Stowe: 13”
Bolton Valley: 16”
Mad River Glen: 9”
Sugarbush: 10”
Pico: 14”
Killington: 14”
Magic Mountain: 14”
Stratton: 15”
Mount Snow: 14″
ADK High Peaks 14″
Whiteface: 14″
Plattekill: 12″
Cannon: 11″
Bretton Woods: 8″
Wildcat: 9″
So reviewing those totals, it looks we were right that …

With a dynamo storm barreling through the east coast, and with dreams of powder schuss keeping us awake through the night, we lodged ourselves in northern Vermont and hoped for the best today. We had planned to head down to …

No need to beat around the bush on this one.  Another powerful storm is aimed straight at the heart of the Northeast and it’s locked and loaded to deliver some serious moisture into ski country.
WED. AM UPDATE
Looks like the storm …

Last week we put in our time studying the mountains of New Hampshire in order to schuss high alpine powder safely. For that trip we pulled a page out of the JHSP’s book, and even esoteric metrics such as miles-of-wind …

Welcome to winter.  Now let’s get down to business and discuss the possiblity of a strong Christmas Weekend Nor’Easter that could bring widespread snow to the northeast and set up fantastic conditions for the all important holiday week.

After an Epic, amazing, textbook, strangely predictable, super-duper awesome, FKNA! inducing, “magic” upslope snow event which gave us VTAH V, everybody has been asking me “what’s next.” Well sadly what’s next just isn’t going to be as awesome. Yea. Sorry …

Lionel got it right a LOOOOOONG time in advance (and kept us updated) on this one. THANK YOU LIONEL! VTah Part 5 is underway!

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You know I was all set to discuss how excited I was for the upcoming period and then I ripped a hole right in the seat of my dress pants. Yep. Caught the pants …

So before we dive in and I stick my neck out there, lets get a few things out of the way. First my goal is to give you an overall idea of what is in store, and when I think …

Sometimes the temperature is below zero, the wind is howling, the skin track is icy, and the forecast is grim. Nonetheless if there is one thing in this world which I know to be true, it’s that you will never …

Woof.  A week or two of silence from the FIS western contingent.  Fear not, we’ve still been sleuthing around, snarking pow.
Yet, for us working bums, we have to get a little sneakier to find our snow.  Most often this results in a …

I figured it was time for a new post since Selma has the potential to be a real doozy.

Since the FIS team has a few friends out west, we’re going to add a some Western US weather reports from time to time. So yea…here we go:

    Before we get into ski season I figure the best thing to do is to introduce you all to some of the ways we get snow. Partly I’m doing this so that you all can understand what the hell …

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Stowe: The 12 days of Christmas from Allen Taylor on Vimeo.
Its been snowing a lot recently, but you already know that, so I’ll get on to the pictures.
Eric didn’t follow Wes’s warning to “never go on an adventure” with …

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