President's Week

Following the Valentines Day Noreaster and 3 days of shoveling, we turned our attention back to skiing. The Central Adirondacks scored a direct hit with the storm and we looked forward to getting into some new and old favorite BC areas. We opted to stay off slides with all the recent deep snow, high winds and wind loading coupled with observations of whumping, settling and shooting cracks. It turned out that two favorite rock climbing areas are excellent for BC skiing. Great terrain, good skinning and seclusion are all positives. I doubt that these areas have been skied before, not on the BC skiing scene radar at all. 16 days of skiing in the month of February, all powder days and every run fresh tracks. This brings the total to 28 days for me and 26 for Kate for the season so far.

Valentines Day Storm

Valentines Day brought a major Noreaster which dumped 37" at home in 3 days. 3 straight days of shoveling. The roof even needed to be shoveled twice. This is the deepest conditions we have had in years. Looks like a good old fashioned winter from the early 70's when I was growing up.

Lake Effect Epic Continued (2/10-2/11) ...

The lake effect machine just kept producing record breaking snowfalls. Our friend Taiga came down from Ottawa on Saturday and we showed him around the deepness. We haven't skied anything but untracked powder runs for many days.

Tug Hill Lake Effect Epic!

It started snowing on January 31st and didn't stop until February 12th up on the Tug Hill Plateau. Redfield, NY received 149" in that time period! Our favorite haunt at Snow Ridge received close to 90". The skiing has been fantastic. One day of untracked deep light powder after another. I'll let the pictures do the talking.