October 18, 2024

While we at conSKIerge basically dream about skiing all year, we generally don’t communicate with y’all during non-ski months. For some reason it doesn’t excite us that a ski area has put in a new bike park or slide gizmo. Yes, there have been some ski related improvements made over the summer, and, no worries, as we will be highlighting those in upcoming articles.

We do recognize that October is considered by most to be a non-skiing month. But boats have been put away, we have been waking up to heavy frosts here in Maine, and we are at the tail end of “leaf peeping” season. All of that in a normal year may not have woken us up enough to start writing about skiing but then there is this – IT IS SNOWING!!!

The last several mornings we’ve woken up to posts from ski areas (oddly enough, mostly northeastern areas) touting decent snowfall. Now “decent” for October is measured in inches but nonetheless… Northern Vermont seems to be the area with the largest totals – Jay Peak reported over a foot at the summit and Sugarbush and Mad River Glen (see photo below) a little further south in Vermont both received 9-10 inches.  (And yes, that is a single chair at Mad River!) Not to be left out, the west is forecasted to get snow over the next 3/4 days and a morning check of Alta’s snow cams shows it is snowing there. As is typical for this time of year the forecast east and west is for warming temperatures in the next week so the joy will be short lived. But ain’t it grand to read about snow rather than some election that apparently is coming up soon!?

Be Well; Ski Well

 

(photo courtesy of the Mad River Glen Facebook page)

By Kevin Dennis
conSKIerge co-founder

Kevin Dennis is a life long ski bum with a 34 year legal career on the side. Now retired, he skis 80+ days a year. While he lives in Alta UT in the winters, he has traveled extensively through skiing and has skied almost every major resort in North America (and many you have never heard of). He continues to hit the road often throughout the western United States and Canada and trips over the last several years have included ventures in British Columbia, Montana and Colorado. Whether you want to know about the behemoths like Aspen or Squaw or are interested in the road less travelled (Lost Trail Powder Mountain in Montana or Whitewater in BC anyone?), Kevin has been there, has an opinion and you will most likely have to tell him to shut up after a half hour!