Sometime, maybe 10-pm on Oct 26, with the temps at about 30-degree and no wind, the snow wands ....
www.waterville.com/cams-summit .... high up the Waterville Valley ski area were turned on for the first time, this season.
Temperatures up top probably got down to 25 and the snow wands are still running the next morning, Oct 28 at 11:45-am. That's a good long run for a first day of sno-making.
$135 will be the prime time lift ticket price this year, up 20-dollars from last years $115. Hey, it costs big to be making all this man made snow, you know!.
One can always get a $19.95 pair of Yaktrax Pro ice and snow grips from eBay and ski poles and go walk the 4.8 miles out and back, up and down the Mt Tecumseh Trail ...
http://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/ne...ille-trailhead ..... to the summit of 3997-foot Mt Tecumseh, which is very very close to the Waterville Valley Ski Area.