Uh-hem . . . While you Westerners gloat, we're twiddling our thumbs.
Here are a few projected dates (sometimes) for a few northern New England resorts — opening dates are wishes that may come true if it stops raining.
Vermont
Killington: blowing snow (that's recent, BTW), but no projected opening date.
Okemo: projected opening: Nov. 11. No snow making has happened, though, so . . .
Mount Snow: Nope.
Sugarbush: Nov. 18, snowmaking begins Nov. 3 (two new lifts this season, incidentally)
Stowe: In theory, the season will run Nov. 17 - April 15. NSM currently.
Statton: Nov. 22. NSM
Bromley: Snowmaking will be happening "before you know it."
Magic: Uh-huh. Dec. 9th? Ullr?
Smuggler's Notch: Dec. 8 maybe?
MRG: Crossed fingers + Ullr = Dec. 9
New Hampshire
Cannon: Not saying.
Wildcat: Well, they've
tested their snowmaking equipment.
Attitash: stoked
Bretton Woods: Snow reports still talk about last season, which was a nice one, apparently.
Loon: Snowmakers are on standby. Mother Nature isn't saying.
Gunstock: 80th anniversary season, but when does it start?
Sunapee: Think Snow!
Crotched: "Winter is right around the bend."
Maine
Sugarloaf: Opening "around Thanksgiving, weather permitting," after having missed "seven feet of snow" by 15 degrees. They have plenty of raging rivers and downed trees, however, which is a consolation. (We had that storm here, too. It was pretty intense.)
Sunday River: Always in the running for first open, they blew their first serious snow on Oct. 17, and will start the season "ASAP." (They have a new lift going in, too.)
Saddleback: Saddleback?
http://majellagroup.com/saddlebackmaine/qanda-saddleback-june17.pdf &
http://www.newenglandskiindustry.com/viewstory.php?storyid=610
That's all I have the heart for at the moment. I'll post this over in the New England thread, too — some of us have been avoiding this thread, probably.