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‘Twas The Night Before Christmas – A Skier’s Poem

‘Twas the night before Christmas when all through the town,
There was no breath of wind and no snow to be found.
The local skiers were sleeping and snoring away,
With hopes of that a winter storm was well on its way.
Their quivers of skis lay next to their beds,
While visions of face shots danced in their heads.
As I lay in my bed, hoping for weather,
I pondered a Christmas with only groomers for pleasure. […]
D’Arcy McLeish |
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Whistler, B.C. Conditions Report: Storm Skiing and Holiday Fun

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The biggest storm of the winter so far just rolled through Whistler dropping over 70cm over the last week. It really felt like winter up in the mountains this weekend as the storm came in and freshened up and filled in much of the terrain. The storm made for some awesome skiing conditions with powder in most areas in the morning, and terrain getting skied off later in the day. Even later though it was still really good soft, chopped up snow due to constant cold temperatures up high […]
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Peter Wentz |
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Squaw Valley Conditions Report: 16″ of New Snow & Two Lifts

Squaw Valley ski resort in Lake Tahoe, CA received 16″ of new snow overnight on the upper mountain. The Gold Coast and Shirley Lake lifts opened right away while Siberia had some mechanical issues and is still closed, but they are hoping to open it around 1pm. The snow was good and dense. Great base building snow. Still very boney out there, so be careful. Laps on Shirley were fun and fast in the morning before lines got long. As of 10:00am both the Shirely and Gold Coast lines were quite long as there is no where else to go. Again, hopefully Siberia can open up this afternoon and spread things out a touch. Squaw may be able to get […]
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Miles Clark |
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Top 10 Photos of New York’s 88-Inches of Lake-Effect Snow

As you most likely saw on the news, Buffalo and surrounding areas got rocked by as much as 7 feet of snow last week. Snow was coming down so fast and so heavy, over 140 motorists became stuck in their cars on I-90, stranded for over 30 hours on 132 miles of closed highway. Tragically, there have been 13 fatalities associated with the storm. Lake effect snow is a result of three combined factors: cold air; a large, warm lake; and heavy winds. Research has shown that November lake-effect events produce the highest amount of precipitation, due to the warm atmosphere holding more [..]
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17-Inch Storm EXTENDS Las Lenas, Argentina’s Season:

Las Lenas was going to close on September 8th due to a major lack of snow. They officially announced it, it was all over their website, and then it snowed. It snowed enough to change their minds and extend the season until September 15th, which is great. Usually, Las Lenas is open until October 15th, so this is still an extremely early closing. It’s been a rough year at Las Lenas. Yesterday and the day before Lenas got a storm that dropped 10 […]
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SnowBrains |
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