<ul><li><a href="http://www.powdermag.com/news/pr11502/">Powder article</a></li></ul>

...encouraging amounts of pre-Thanksgiving snow and then nada to speak of. Keep your fingers crossed. (We've got enough even down here that both Taos and Ski Santa Fe are talking about early openings, and the free-heel crowd is already tearing up the mountain at SSF.) HPH