Check out the story below from Ski The East describing a perfect ending to the season.
In mid-April, I was pretty bummed with the seemingly inevitable end of the ski season approaching.
As the weather sources were reporting yet another wide-spread warm-up, hope seemed to have been lost.
And just like that, the East Coast came along and?
(Dumb and Dumber, anyone?)
Check out Last Hurrah?s: Wildcat.
That round of snow set the stage for perfect conditions on Mt Washington?s Tuckerman Ravine.
I was starting to feel a bit more content with the season.
Then, along came one of the most potent spring storms in recent memory.
The snow began on April 27th and it continued to fall heavily into mid-day on April 28th.
The storm was a classic upslope snowfall event ?
a weather phenomenon which is more characteristic in mid-winter than late spring.
LOOKS LIKE JACKPOT SPOT WILL BE JAY PEAK WITH FAVORABLE NORTHWEST FLOW OVER MORE THAN 24 HOURS.
HEAVIEST SNOW WILL LIKELY FALL TUESDAY NIGHT AS PERSISTENT NW FLOW CONTINUES.
to describe the conditions on Tuesday evening.
Of course, Meathead Films El Presidente Geoff McDonald was one of the first to come knocking.
We met up at Jay Peak that evening in near disbelief.
Just as we hoped, we woke up early and were greeted by near white-out conditions.
We made our way to the mountain and caught up with Meathead athletes Stacey Rachdorf and Asia Magriby.
The Stateside parking lot had a handful of skiers gearing up to earn their turns.
