Weather Log 2022-2023

[Glade Monkey]

Updated and ready for snow!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15pDtVbFtHZc_GZpQfRlKcwOYKePe7l6m_2SnFcA7sjk/edit?usp=sharing

[shot ski]

There goes my hero

[WrathOfAramark]

Can I get a special note about there being flakes on October 8?

Was mentioned elsewhere a report of flakes on the morning of homecoming at Sugarloaf. I can confirm I saw flakes being spit in Rangeley on the morning of October 8, same day as homecoming.


That said, let's go 150"+ season! Because the last two have been exceedingly "meh".

[Glade Monkey]

Can I get a special note about there being flakes on October 8?

Was mentioned elsewhere a report of flakes on the morning of homecoming at Sugarloaf. I can confirm I saw flakes being spit in Rangeley on the morning of October 8, same day as homecoming.

That said, let's go 150"+ season! Because the last two have been exceedingly "meh".

Note add on 10/8 and agree on the past two seasons. Its before this log started but I recall 18/19 being a good season too that started off amazingly- We had a POW day in late November when all the lifts weren't even open yet and I got stuck in a snowdrift near the top of KP (which wasn't open).
19/20 - 173" total (68" after closing for C )
20/21 - 118" total (85" after Xmas)
21/22 - 103" total (83" after Xmas)

[darkwizard]

Awesome. I love me some spreadsheets and this is data that one can enjoy. Nice work!

[Glade Monkey]

2022 November reported snow total is already more than the previous two Novembers combined
Happy Opening Day!

[skiloaf]

Most terrain in the east!

[Glade Monkey]

BUMP (to get this thread back up to the top of the list for easy acccess)

Day 13 - no longer the most "open" terrain in the east (SR slightly ahead with 132 acres). But the SL terrain is mostly inaccessible today since only Skidway is running and uphill travel is prohibited. Maybe mountain ops should just take the day off...

On to December!

[High Ball]

BUMP (to get this thread back up to the top of the list for easy acccess)

Day 13 - no longer the most "open" terrain in the east (SR slightly ahead with 132 acres). But the SL terrain is mostly inaccessible today since only Skidway is running and uphill travel is prohibited. Maybe mountain ops should just take the day off...

On to December!

Question…how are acres calculated? Is it the actual number of acres on the open trails that you can ski on or is it the number of acres in the area encompassing the open trails, which would include glades, which are obviously closed at this point in the season? If it’s the former, that’s good. If it’s the latter, than I think it’s an extremely misleading metric at this time of year and that “miles” would be more representative of skiable terrain. I’ve noticed that SR does not report miles on mountain report.

[Glade Monkey]

BUMP (to get this thread back up to the top of the list for easy acccess)

Day 13 - no longer the most "open" terrain in the east (SR slightly ahead with 132 acres). But the SL terrain is mostly inaccessible today since only Skidway is running and uphill travel is prohibited. Maybe mountain ops should just take the day off...

On to December!

Question…how are acres calculated? Is it the actual number of acres on the open trails that you can ski on or is it the number of acres in the area encompassing the open trails, which would include glades, which are obviously closed at this point in the season? If it’s the former, that’s good. If it’s the latter, than I think it’s an extremely misleading metric at this time of year and that “miles” would be more representative of skiable terrain. I’ve noticed that SR does not report miles on mountain report.

I would hope that they have a behind the scenes automatic calculator which adds in the miles & acres when each trail is checked as open. All the (named) glades are on the trail list, so should have their own area/length to add in too.
It is funny, because it seems like all the Boyne resort websites were redone to have almost identical page layouts (template?) a few years back, but have slowly changed and while the header and top drop downs may still be very similar, they now have different sections and almost unique mountain report layouts.
Vail resort websites are almost interchangeable.

[Mr. Vesper]

Lots of grass can be seen today from Sugarloaf WEB CAMS

[Glade Monkey]

Lots of grass can be seen today from Sugarloaf WEB CAMS

It is snowing now squire, at least on the ONE mountain report web cam!

[Ezra]

Is it possible to add the number of wind holes to the data base?

[Glade Monkey]

Is it possible to add the number of wind holes to the data base?

Yup - I've been noting them but can easily just add a column

[Alpiner]

Right now it feels like it is not going to significantly snow again for the rest of the season.

[Glade Monkey]

Right now it feels like it is not going to significantly snow again for the rest of the season.

Hush!

Sure - the west has been getting hammered but our turn will come soon enough - the weather has switched & I predict at least FOOT of natural falls before Christmas. Meanwhile the new pumphouse and snowguns they brag about in EVERY daily mountain report can do their thing and the Loaf will have over 50 open trails by NYE.

[Mr. Vesper]

Can Glade Monkey to anything else other than posting?

[Glade Monkey]

Can Glade Monkey to anything else other than posting?

Yeah I DO - keep up the weather log and ski too

[Pow on the Mao]

I’d say 28-30” is pretty good reading. Woods are so buried they are difficult to ski if not steeps

[BaxterBoy5006]

What’s the outlook for next weekends storm?

[Mr. Vesper]

It will be Christmas with Tons of snow

[Pow on the Mao]

to recap the weekend storm -
SL struggled with transportation logistics sat morning - who could blame them, the snow rate was pretty wild. with labor shortages i'm sure they were thin everywhere. needed a small army of heavy equipment. access road was dicey and many cars got stuck resulting in a line of traffic from base to 27. groomers were plowing the mud lots out when we parked, trying to make a path for shuttles to come thru. even DOT was having trouble keeping 27 passable.

above the lots, mtn ops did a great job all day. quad and skyline turned all day. skyline ran on diesel late in the afternoon. but both lifts turned all day without any real issues. they even got TL turning, but it never opened, i think due to staffing and the need for patrol to run around the rest of the mtn putting pads on towers and dropping ropes. there was zero wind.

no lift lines. everyone off doing their xmas shopping or watching world cup of saturday NFL. it was country club skiing all day in a pumping snowstorm.

Kudus to mtn ops for keeping everything going, and to patrol for dropping ropes. once spillway crosscut opened, everything opened. everything was skiable. everything.
snow reported did a great job tweeting live trail openings on saturday.

i cant remember a storm like that in a long time... or ever. it all came at once (late friday all the way till about 6pm saturday) and no wind, not a lick of it. even sunday was very mild breeze at top.
they dropped ropes on the summit on sunday. i got to physically drop the rope on binder. felt like an honorary ribbon cutting.

hopefully this all packs in and stays put. summit looks amazing.

[gondicar]

i cant remember a storm like that in a long time... or ever. it all came at once (late friday all the way till about 6pm saturday) and no wind, not a lick of it. even sunday was very mild breeze at top.

March 6/7, 1999.

[bigelow]

i cant remember a storm like that in a long time... or ever. it all came at once (late friday all the way till about 6pm saturday) and no wind, not a lick of it. even sunday was very mild breeze at top.

March 6/7, 1999.

December of 2003, also a Demo Days weekend, it started snowing on Sunday and by Monday morning there was close to 50". The 12/15/2003 daily report on the wayback machine shows 122 trails open on that day. Not to worry, it rained before Christmas and the best skiing of the season was that December.

[cat in january]

End of March 1987. It snowed for a week. I worked teaching then and sweep from the top of the gondola house always had me choosing a trail I could first ski the face down to. I hope the weekend storm doesn’t produce the rain we saw then. It was real ugly after.

[essslsclsact]

Wish I could remember the year, but March had two 30+" storms about two weeks apart. Spring skiing was great that year. Maybe the year Sugarloaf had skiing weekend at end of May and June 1.

[gondicar]

Wish I could remember the year, but March had two 30+" storms about two weeks apart. Spring skiing was great that year. Maybe the year Sugarloaf had skiing weekend at end of May and June 1.

[cat in january]

Skied that day. Patrol tried to keep us in line, but it was a jail break and we were all over

[gondicar]

Skied that day. Patrol tried to keep us in line, but it was a jail break and we were all over

Skied and played 9 holes that day.

[Glade Monkey]

Bump - wasn’t expecting to push around spring mashed potatoes over New Years weekend.