We woke up to 5-6" of snow on the ground after 8" had fallen in a 24 hour period. We groomed an out and back segment on Sukkerbusk to the bottom of Suicide Hill than back. With nearly 2" of rain before the snow, it was key to stay on ridges and high ground with so many low spots holding water. Went out skiing later and was probably the best October ski I can ever remember. This is actually saying a lot since we have had skiable snow 8 out of the last 11 Octobers. Pretty surreal to be skiing in fall color when a few days ago we were mountain biking in short sleeves! Snow continues to fall and should be decent early season skiing for another 24 hours before it melts off. Lot of branches and trees folding over with the initial heavy wet snow.

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(Jay Richards, Maplelag Resort)