Hallelujah

Many mountains up north now have nice white caps. Vermont got four to six inches on Tuesday and more today.

Free Lift Tickets
Last week I announced that the first New England Snow Detective reader to ski and send a report within 24 hours will receive two free lift tickets to Sunday River. That deal is still up for grabs, and Sunday River opened for the season this morning. So get moving. (And many thanks to Jackson's Ski Outlet in Easton, MA, for providing the prize.)

Boston Ski Expo
The Ski and Snowboard Expo starts a week from today (Nov. 15-18). It's at the Bayside Expo Center just south of Boston off Route 93. For those of you who haven't been before, you can often pick up very good early ski season deals. You'll also find on sale lots of ski equipment and clothing. Tickets are $10 plus parking, but you can get $3 off if you go to their web site and give them your email address. www.onthesnow.com/bewi/boston

Ski This Weekend
If you want to ski this weekend, you can go to Sunday River. If you bring three cans of food the lift tickets are only $20, although even that is steep considering they only have one lift and two trails open.

Others soon to open include:

Maine
Sugarloaf 11/16

New Hampshire
Cannon 11/23
Loon 11/23
Waterville 11/17
Wildcat 11/24

Vermont
Jay 11/23
Killington 11/16
Okemo 11/17
Smuggler's 11/23
Stowe 11/21
Sugarbush 11/22

Tell Your Friends
Please tell your skiing and snowboarding friends about this newsletter. The more people who sign up the better intelligence I can gather about New England ski conditions. All they have to do is send an email to skimail@mac.com and I'll put them on the list. I promise not to sell their email to anyone and they won't get any spam from me.

Now get out thee and enjoy the great outdoors.