00:00Lincoln is also an avid skier putting in a hundred and thirty six days on the mountain last year
00:05He also runs the never quit skiing blog tracking his adventures in the snow
00:10He joins us live from Wilmington, New York at Whiteface Mountain ski area with some tips for the season and Lincoln boy
00:18The weather has turned in toward a very positive
00:23Conditions across many of the ski resorts in the Northeast
00:27Yeah, you know November got off to a warm start look pretty rough there in terms of snow making but that's gotten your Thanksgiving
00:34Got colder got the cold to make snow. Also got some fresh powder basically all week long
00:39We've had free refills of snow main tip
00:42I want to share with you if you're trying to get out to early season ski this December
00:45You want to check that conditions report for every single mountain that you're planning to ski at it's incredibly important that you do that
00:52Because this time of year terrain is limited
00:54Here is they're still working on their build-outs and that could mean it could be a little crowded if you're a beginner
01:00They may not have any beginner terrain for you. It may just be intermediate and advanced expert only
01:05So check those conditions reports and compare mountains
01:08There may be more terrain open elsewhere than where you had originally planned to go
01:12And and at the how many days have you skied so far and what is the season been like so far?
01:19I'm at 12 days. This is day 12. I just took two runs trying to get on this live shot here
01:24We're having some connection signal issues
01:26But this season has been honestly phenomenal for the last week up until that
01:31Like I said earlier, it was a little rough, you know
01:33The season in the East typically starts around November 1st this year really got started around mid-November
01:38So about two weeks late and even some of the major ski areas that are typically open for Thanksgiving
01:44They didn't open till this week
01:45So this weekend is the first real big weekend where there's a lot of ski areas open in the East
01:51Lincoln you and I were talking kind of earlier
01:53About kind of conditions for skiing and of course people can you know check the AccuWeather app before they go out?
01:58Can you tell us maybe some positive weather kind of impacts for skiing or days that people may not have the best experience with weather?
02:05When you're looking for the best conditions, you just want prolonged cold, you know
02:09Any snow is good snow, but prolonged cold with some days of one to two inches. Obviously a big powder day
02:15It's epic
02:16but if you've got that prolonged cold and just
02:18Days where it just keeps snowing like it has this week an inch here an inch there
02:22That's typically going to be great conditions
02:24And you know when you see those stretches of rain like next week in the Northeast it could rain a couple days in a row
02:30Well next Thursday is expected to be quite cold that could end up being a fairly icy day
02:35So that's kind of the pattern that you want to watch for
02:37You know, you can see in the rain by the way rain things actually pretty good so
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