Boy, it sure is nuking in ... WEST VIRGINIA?!

Many moons ago my parents retired and relocated to the vacation cabin they built in the Canaan Valley area of West Virginia. As you may be aware, there's a pair of ski areas in the valley and a well-known but off-the-beaten-path XC area, White Grass , that farms snow like you've never seen before.

In advance of Hurricane Sandy's arrival, the folks at WG set up a webcam on the deck of their lodge for their snowfall gauge. With a forecast calling for 2-3 feet of snow and a blizzard warning in effect, the images its captured today have been striking. At noon eastern, the deck was wet with no accumulation. Six hours later the deck is buried in over a foot of snow!

This is the last image from it before the power went out - fortunately they're hosting their website elsewhere:



Should the cam come back online, that image will update with the latest capture. Talk about a sleeper powder day!

'pparently the state park's ski area has a webcam now, too.



Sure makes me wish I'd visited at the end of this month instead of the end of September...

Road trip.

the only time to ski in those mid-atlantic places is DURING the storm....

My parents sent a few photos my way this morning. It looks like a good day to have four-wheel drive:



though it looks like a bad time to only have room for 2 cars in the garage:

This gem came-in courtesy of the folks over at DCSki:

vimeo.com/52630346

Wow!