Skiing - like a box of chocolates
22.05.12
Skiing in New England is like Forrest Gumps box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get. This winter, I feel like we got the funky bonbons filled with icky sticky fruit flavoring. Right now the snow at many ski resorts actually resembles cookie dough, the bare spots are the chocolate chips.
The biggest treat of snow this season came Halloween, but that was too soon, too big a trick for ski resorts to open up, except Killington and Sunday River who started their season October 29. Snow totals around New England have been low all winter, while temperatures continue to be record high. Now many ski resorts are closing before their anticipated alpine end dates.
The good news - there are a handful of ski resorts that made serious snow from November through February that are determined to keep their lifts spinning as long as there is a ribbon of snow and people show.
New Englands biggest ski events are still on the calendar, Sunday River hosts The Dumont Cup this weekend, 80s weekend March 31-April 1, and Parrothead April 7-8. Okemos FestEVOL is this weekend, ending their ski season Sunday. Mount Snow will finish this weekend with their 10th annual Sink or Swim Pond Skim. Cannon is planning Blizzard Splash Pond on March 31, and Bodefest April 7, stay tuned. Sugarloaf celebrates Reggaefest April 13-15, and may well be the last lifts spinning in New England this spring. Sugarloaf closed May 9 last year, but they received 16-feet of snow last year too.
Source: Boston.com (blog)