End of Jan

I had low expectations for this weekend but it turned into a great couple of days of skiing. Huntington didn't have as much snow as Underhill but enough and some very nice untouched powder.
Huntington Sunday:

Queen of the hill

Up higher, where this picture was taken, had just the right amount of snow

Devils Dishpan

Nothing in the valley would make you think the skiing had improved. After looking at the Mad River report though I thought it may have promise. Turned out much better than I thought.
Stevensville rd: Over Devils Dishpan and followed red blaze trail toward Trapps. Took a right on Dewey and headed up onto the ridge. Looped from there back to Underhill trail and headed back. Also spent some time in the AM and the PM in the woods on the side of Dewey that goes down to the parking lot.
2 inches at the parking lot and about 6-8 up high. These are powder numbers. Some wet snow must have fallen that covered the crust or whatever there was on the base. This made for no ice skiing and it was very nice. Skiing powder on top of a good base. Looks like it is going to stay reasonably cold so skiing should be good for a while?

Looking at lake from ridge

Camels Hump

Maybe I should have gone skiing? 2-4 inches of new snow. Some ice in the trees and a crust on top of the new snow up higher.

View from the top

Winter?

The new "winter" in VT? I hope not. Another weekend of 40 degrees, fog, some light rain. Wandered around in Burlington and the area around it. I hope this is not a repeat of last winter which was an endless November.

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captain's log supplemental 1/22/17:
Against my better judgement I decided to go skiing in Huntington. It turned out to be a decent day. Spring conditions. No ice. Thin particularly at low elevations. Still a foot or so of snow at higher elevations. I guess Spring is in January now?

More random pics:

Small window of winter

It snowed 3-5 in the mtns tue night and I made it out wed. Skiing in Jan has been rough so far. The forecast calls for too warm weather for the rest of the week so this may be the only day for another week. It did turn out to be a nice day. Enough heavy snow to cover the ice and lower down the dirt. Breaking trail was easy since there wasn't much snow and the temps stayed just cold enough to keep the snow good for downhill. Kept going since it was a nice day and made it close to the battleground condos. Didn't go to the condos because the snow got too thin as I dropped down into that area. Hopefully things get better in February.

Snowing off and on all day

Mid January

Temperatures have been up and down for the last week. We have had some unfortunate rain storms which have put the skiing on hold for now. It doesn't look like it will improve in the next week. There is always hiking. Today was a sunny warm (40) day and I went to the Long Trail going South out of Richmond. Not very icy since there was an inch or two of wet snow on top of the crust below. Nice day to be outside.