Snowstorm Update: 12.4.07 evening

Tuesday night and the midterm snow totals are out, posted by most areas. There were plenty of big winners. Two feet over the last 48 hours is a very good way to start December.

The thing is most of the mountains continue to see the flakes falling. This is not going to change until Thursday afternoon. In fact, an additional disturbance will be a snowmaker if/when it hits us (half dozen inches) Friday evening into Saturday.

All this adds up to a tremendous weekend of skiing and riding!
48 hour totals from Tuesday afternoon LINK
Ski Maine
Sugarloaf 18”
Sunday River 15”-17”
Pic & update from Sugarloaf: This weekend skiers and riders can test out the latest skis and snowboards at Sugarloaf’s annual demo days. Also, the legendary Jefferson Starship with special guest the Outerspace Band will take the main stage in the King Pine Room. Limited tickets are still available by calling 1.800 THE LOAF.

Ski New Hampshire
Attitash 12”
Bretton Woods 18”-20”
Cannon 12”-14”
Crotched 8”
Loon 14”
Mount Sunapee 10”
Pats Peak 8”
Waterville Valley 18”
Pic & update from Bretton Woods: This recent snowfall has doubled the trail count from 18 to 36 trails. Looking good to have an additional 3-4 trails opening up with snowmaking and possibly 9 more on natural snow for the weekend — so el woods could have as many as 45 trails open for the weekend.

Ski Vermont
Ascutney 11” (no afternoon report)
Bromley 9”-15”
Jay Peak 30”
Killington 23”
Mount Snow 14”
Okemo 14”-16”
Smugglers’ Notch 24”
Stowe 16”-21”
Stratton 14”-16”
Sugarbush 20”
Pic (Little Lew on Bootlegger 12/04/07) & update from Smugglers’ Notch: Smugglers’ Notch Resort will offer skiing and riding on more than 60 percent of the total terrain, or 50 trails, available on all three of its trail-connected ski mountains by Saturday, December 8, 2007.

Fathom This: Even though the natural snow is coming down every area listed above has been and still is making as much snow as possible. Areas yet to open should also have the guns lit making more snow.
I cannot use the word “snow” enough.
I would be shocked not to see trail counts spike over the weekend. Some places will triple their open terrain in five days.
this is a cool stat, what you should really take out of it is in ’05 we got a monster storm on the 5th, so that count is a more accurate read of trails open from snowmaking, it would be interesting to see the compare from the 3rd to the 10th
TRAIL STATS form SKI VERMONT
DATE____OPEN TRAILS ___ TOTAL TRAILS___ % OPEN
12/4/07 _____ 369 ____________ 1242 __________ 29.7%
12/4/06 _____ 26 _____________ 1186 ___________ 2.2%
12/4/05 _____165 _____________ 1167 __________ 14.1%
12/4/04 ______99 _____________ 1163___________ 8.5%
Folks, this event (right now) is a huge start for New England skiing. Get north to your favorite mountains and enjoy it since we have it!
More later in the week,
S.G.
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