Last year was the best season I have seen in Tahoe. This year = the worst. We actually had more snow in August than we do now.
I have taken my camera out a total of zero times so no video yet this year. I got bored last night and put together a new edit of some old footage, reminiscing of the good old days when it snowed.
Enjoy
Nice vid! Yea, were having a very bad season here also. Might have to put the bike rack back on the car ;(
I re-stacked wood, and vacumed / washed cars in the driveway in a t-shirt this afternoon... little warm for this time of year
Came back from dinner a little while ago, guy was riding his motorcycle, in January! It was over 50f today. It was perfect spring skiing today but it's January and I want cold blowing snowy days and nights. If it was the end of march it would be perfect skiing weather.
Awesome video! Last year was one for the books, and so is this one. I'll go ahead and apologize for the minimal snow. My dad and I spent all summer working on our cabin (read: shack) at Donner to give it a face lift for this ski season. Also bought a Squaw pass in June to go with my Rose pass. Also got new skis (still working on building a pair). Also got shovel/beacon/probe to venture to new terrain I haven't skied.
So to counteract that Murphy, I've been doing things like washing my truck and building a shed...
It's pretty sad that my home mountain - which isn't known for getting tons of snow - has the #4 deepest base in the US right now, according to this:
http://unofficialnetworks.com/deepest-snowpacks-north-america-63299/
Even if we've got crappy snow, I can't complain, since some of you guys don't even have that
Here's hoping for a strong late winter!
the ski report around here was pretty happy to say today that sunday river had a 2 foot base.....
my local hill gunstock has a claimed 1 foot base, however i was there a few days ago and saw an awful lot of grass on the OPEN runs
edit:
heres a photo my brother took a week or so ago at gunstock...
-Jacob
Looks very much like our local hill.
Hey we're #13.
Got up yesterday for a few laps. (Fernie alpine resort)
Found some not bad snow in the north facing trees.
There is zero snow in town. My lawn is bare.
Last year started out kinda like this here but we ended up with over 10m.
Still kinda average. Just haven't really gotten any new for quite a while.
This is the automated snow pillow data from the river forecast site on the ridge across from the ski hill (1966m)
The same ridge Fernie wilderness
I don't want to be "that guy" but uh... we just had a pretty good weekend in the mountains, I had two great days in a row skiing (other than the broken ski yesterday)... but the best is yet to come. Here is the forecast for the next couple of days...
I'm going up Thursday, it should be pretty nuts!
Of course down in Seattle they're talking about 6+ inches of snow as well
My house is still covered in snow from the weekend, but now that I'm at work in Seattle its just wet. Tonight/tomorrow are looking to be interesting!
Good for you twizz! Our weather patterns are crap. Every time precip is forecast-ed it warms up just enough so it rains instead of all snow. Sucks. It s/b snowing now but it's raining again.
Hey Desmond, any snow on Greylock?
I don't want to rub it in either.
WE GOT 75cms OVERNIGHT.
It's been snowing a bit the last couple days
Got some fresh turns on fri/sat, most of it was skied out by sunday.
Woke up this morning it was -26c and pukin!
Was over my knees walking up my sidewalk when I got home from work tonight.
More in the forecast!
Booked a seat on a cat for this weekend!
Gotta get some binders on the fugly reverse/ reverse skis
sam
Nice!!!! I have to get out of San Diego
Come on up!
My mountain has gotten 42" at the top in the last 48 hours. Tomorrow is going to be awesome!
Twizz.. looks like we're in the same weather pattern
Latest today says 44" in the last 48hrs
58" in the last 7 days.
Now I've probably jinxed myself doh.
sam
Today was pretty nuts. But icing on the cake - forecasts were saying that the lowland snow in Seattle was going to change to rain today, so we expected to come home from skiing to slush/rain... not so. Dumping snow at home still, with a couple of new inches since I left this morning. I love it!
With over 6ft of snow in the last 6 days, that basically put us right at normal snowpack.
Poor Tahoe is still scraping along
