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I knew of the potential for snow last night, and toyed with the idea of going to Mad River if there was enough to skip work for the morning. When I called the mountain this morning, they said 5-6" new in the past 24 hours, and snowing. Since Burlington had already picked up 3-4, I knew it was time to go. Got James up and, with a few minutes of effort we managed to get my car out of the driveway. The new inches on top of the past two storms had really given us a lot of snow, even in town; the roads were greasy but not too bad. As we approached the mountain, the snow was letting up and patches of blue sky were appearing. We immediately looked over to the practice slope and saw a few tracks, but tons of fresh lines. Warmed up there with a couple runs and found 10-12" of great snow all over the face where they had not groomed. This snow was slightly heavier than Sunday at the 'bush, but lighter than Saturday at Jay Peak, I'd guess 8-10% H2O (latest report from Mt. Mansfield was 9% for Tuesday, and for Wednesday in the valley, South Lincoln reports 10.3% and Waitsfield reports 11.7%). We were reluctant to leave the practice slope with all the fresh lines still there, but my time was limited, and we wanted to check out what was off the double. James had been at the mountain yesterday, and he said that there were plenty of places where you could see the ground (although coverage was adequate). He commented that many of those places had been filled in, and only the steepest stuff of the double now had ground showing where people had skied. We worked the skier's left of the double, finding plenty of untracked; boot deep to above the knees in places. Generally, a little bit of traversing to the left would yield good rewards. The woods were a bit bony in spots, but most lines were skiable. We finished the morning up over at the practice slope again. As much as I love the powder in the trees, there's a certain something about freshies in the open that really gives you a sense of freedom. After a brief break this afternoon and tomorrow, more snow may be on the way for Thursday evening through Saturday. We'll see what happens, but another good storm will really make for some excellent conditions this weekend. J.Spin