Mary Malmros wrote:
Richard Henry wrote:

"Mary Malmros" wrote in message
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Richard Henry wrote:

Mammoth-Sierra snowpack (official gumint figures):


Fie upon you. Here in the Northeast we're really struggling along, on
bits and pieces. If we could get a good two-foot dump we'd be in good
shape, but there's nothing like that on the horizon.

Time for another sacrifice...



It's worse than you think. The snowpack figures are in equivalent
inches of
liquid water.


HATE you! We have NOTHING more than snow showers in the ten-day
forecast. It's enough to make you wail and gnash your teeth.

Mary, Killington just sent me a "Powder Alert"

I cut and paste...
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Powder Alert!

It is dumping at Killington - 5 inches of new
snow in the past 24 hours. This weekend we are
projecting to have 125+ trails, served by 29
lifts. Open terrain is in incredible shape with
deep top-to-bottom, wall-to-wall snow
coverage.

More advanced terrain? Killington will have more
open this weekend than any other resort in the
East. Thanks to our top-notch snowmaking crew,
we've buried all your favorites including Lower
Double Dipper, Lower Downdraft and Upper Vertigo
with tons of snow.

Pico Mountain is open with 23 trails and 4 lifts.
Upper Pike opened on Thursday and B-Slope will be
open for this weekend.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I was at Pico on Wednesday. It was firm, fast
and fun, to quote a patroller I spoke with.

As for "powder" you'd need to get there by 7:00AM
(lifts open at 9) to be able to get it before the
patrollers have cut it all up.