The end may be near

UPDATE 4/3/26:
      After another warm day today, Friday,  and with no forecast for any snow into next week, I guess it's time to bring these reports to an end for the season. I hope that you have found them useful in planning your ski trips. If so, don't forget that this website has a "Donation" tab.
      Otherwise, the one comment to the previous report indicates that there is still good snow that starts not far past Marcy Dam. That said, heading toward Marcy involves a potentially difficult crossing of Phelps Brook just above Marcy Dam and an apparently equally difficult crossing or Marcy Brook at Indian Falls. There is a high water route to avoid the Phelps Brook crossing, but no alternative to the Marcy Brook crossing. On some mornings these crossings won't be very difficult, but melting with the warm temperatures later in the day may make them treacherous on the afternoon return. (This warning applies in particular to any hikers planning to hike street and Nye.)
     I will thus leave it to all the die-hards to make the best of these final weeks of High Peaks skiing.

Sunday was the last day that the two remaining groomed centers, Mt. Van Hoevenberg and the Paul Smith's VIC, were open and grooming.  Their timing was good as, after some sun early Monday there is nothing but rain in the forecast through next Sunday. And some days will see temperatures in the 50s so what will be left for the coming weekend or beyond will be much less that there now is remaining on the ground. For now, the VIC, Hays Brook, and Fish Pond still have skiable cover, but no guarantees how long that will last. In the backcountry, there will still be good cover past Marcy Dam and higher up on Wright, but brook crossings will be difficult as all snow is gone from the brooks. 

​If there is any change in the forecast before the weekend, we'll let you know; but it now seems that only you die-hards will continue skiing and you know where to find what's left.