Vermont’s Blueroom
Standing waist-deep on the roof of my garage, removing a 12-foot-wide, 4-foot-deep cornice for the second time in two weeks, I wondered if I was witnessing history.
It was the middle of February, and I wasn’t far off. This past winter ended up being one of the snowiest on record in northern Vermont. According to the Mt. Mansfield snow stake at Stowe Mountain, we hit a peak snow depth of 103 inches on March 2, 2025. The snowiest winter ever recorded in Vermont was the winter of 1969, when the base reached 149 inches. Last winter was the fourth snowiest on record since 1954, when the stake was first installed.
A snowpack just over 100 inches may not sound like a lot compared to the West Coast. But in the mountains of Vermont, it’s just enough to fill in our favorite zones—the riverbeds, mature hardwood forests, slides and alpine zones around Mansfield.
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