Today is Saturday, Nov 10, and the
www.waterville.com says the ski area is scheduled to open next Saturday on Nov 17. You know something, the grass on the Waterville Valley golf course is still very green, because it looks and feels under foot to be very much alive and still in its growing mode, as opposed to going dormant and taking on a beige to light brownish color. So, how's about that? The grass is still very green, and the ground in the golf course has obviously not frozen yet.
Over on the seven acre Corcoran's Pond, it looks like it is about 1/2 frozen with very thin ice, and that ice is shrinking and getting smaller right now.
In the past, it was pretty common for the woods and open spaces in Waterville Valley to all be snow covered from November 5 to April 5, but that has not happening the last couple-three to five years.
Looking up at the Waterville Valley slopes on the 3800' foot high ski area on Mt Tecumseh, there is no white snow to be seen anywhere, no white no-where, and the slopes have a beige-brown color so probably up on the mountain, the ground has gone through a freeze.
The ski area has not yet turned on its sno-making, and today feels a lot more like an October day than a November day with a temp right now at 40 and supposedly getting up,(
www.weatherchannel.com zip 03215-ten day forecast), into the low-50's or so???
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The ski area has applied to the Forest Service to expand new slopes and a new lift onto Green's Peak, the smaller mountain just south of Valley Run beginner's trail
http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.ph or google "forest service waterville valley green's peak", so a return to an old fashioned winter this season would probably help to move this planned expansion along.