Ice covered trees behind the Birch Ridge Inn

Ice covered trees behind the Birch Ridge Inn

Take one damp day with a combination of snow, sleet, and freezing r@*n, add in a temperature drop from 34 degrees to 12 overnight....well it looks pretty but everything is rock hard.

Friends who were out on the mountain today reported that the resort was able to get groomers over most of the main line trails before the resort opened this morning. Surfaces were reported as being very firm. I would guess that snow base depths on the mountain will support some significant tilling the next couple of days to soften the trails up for President's Weekend visitors. Currently at the inn we have 25 inches at the snow stake. The mountain has significantly more.

Let it snow!