powderfreak

Ha down here at 750ft… The VAST snowmobile route to the gas station while the dog finds anything cold to roll in. The Rec Path is annoyingly busy ha. Like a spring afternoon.

I can tell you with your attitude going in you certainly won't have as good a time, ha. Mentality going in is like 90% of the experience in most aspects of life. Remember, you aren't going to work, it's vacation, you'll still be skiing, the views to Mount Washington are still sick, there will be beverages, good food, fireplaces, hot tubs hopefully, time with friends and family in a place that isn't Taunton. Like you said, if you can't get a refund, just go skiing and make the most of it. Get excited to get out of SNE... go to a brewery in Bethel after skiing, have a couple beers, a burger, sit by the fire with the woman, enjoy yourself.

Rest of Northern/Central Utah: Storm totals thus far: Upper LCC: 24"/1.75" SWE Upper BCC: 20/1.90" SWE Park City: 16"/2.0" SWE Ogden mountains: 20"/2.77" Provo mountains: 42"/7.67" SWE (That is not a typo) Snow stakes now sit at 90-110" in the Cottonwoods and 70-80" along the PC ridge. 70-80" in Ogden, 75-85" in Provo. Amazing.

Out west just continues to get hammered. What a time to be alive out there. Provo Mountains in Utah are just getting smoked on south/southwest flow. ****Utah Avalanche Center**** Provo Mountains Overnight snow totals are 10"/1.57" SWE and it's still snowing. Winds are out of the southwest, blowing 20mph with gusts to 30. Temps are in the upper 20s and low 30s. Storm snow and water numbers are unbelievable and I cannot remember this much snow-water-equivalent in this short of time in my tenure. I'll have to look back at the old charts. The mid-mountain snowstake has picked up - since Friday morning - 42"/7.67" SWE (That is not a typo) THE DANGER IN THE PROVO MOUNTAINS IS EXTREME. LARGE, LONG RUNNING DESTRUCTIVE AVALANCHES ARE EXPECTED. AVOID ALL AVALANCHE TERRAIN. AVOID THE RUNOUTS OF STEEP AVALANCHE PATHS.

Seems very excessive. You think ORH or Coastal care at all what he says? It’s more funny than anything. Can’t just ban/cancel everyone who disagrees with something lol.

At least the Pope can’t declare your life work fraudulent, ha ha.

It’s just a joke. I know you are very in-tune with the long range stuff… one of the few posters who could actually write that without getting smoked. George writes that there’s 42 weenies on it in the first 7 minutes.

Can always adjust upward later if needed.

Ha yeah I got out for a slow walk with the dog. Got extremely tired fast… but I just don’t stay in the house all day well, I need to be outside. I’ve heard or have always thought even when sick to keep a little bit of movement and fresh air if possible. It has that euphoric spring time feel. Don’t know what it is but it just gets endorphins going.

Haha I was like that looks a lot like my backyard right now. Trapp Family Lodge it must be? We survived the last torch to 50F and high wind event but only so many of those one can take without reinforcements.

Just alternating Tylenol and Advil. It hasn’t been that bad, just the long lasting fever for days. No lung issues. First day headache was rough but that cleared up in about 12 hours.

I made it 2+ years but got COVID this week. I had two rough colds over the past year that weren't COVID, but this one has smoked me. I cannot stop sweating, ha. Just pouring sweat all the time like I'm running a marathon. Fever builds then breaks, then builds and breaks. Or my body is trying to flush my body and get rid of something. For the past 3 mornings I've had to strip the bed and wash the sheets, just soaked in sweat and then chills. My wife woke me up the other night thinking I was going to have a seizure or stroke, she said my face was just running sweat while I slept, like I was hiking the mountain on a humid July day. Never seen anything like this. I have no idea what's going on, just keep hydrating.

That model is sponsored by Canadian Tire, just trying to sell you more snows all the time.

Winterization patterns of regional moped owners also factors in as an ensemble member.

Instead of poetry, I just imagine DIT in a fit of rage declaring winter over the minute his black asphalt driveway starts melting snow in the sunshine despite it being only 20F outside.

Any little puff of moving air is like straight into the 50s. Calm air is in the 30s. We’re just going up and down depending on if the air is moving or not, ha.

Yeah Feb 21st and Oct 21st are same solar and neither feels warm. Isn’t early February like the middle of winter cold on the temp curve?

Trying to fake cold but keeps mixing out. Been jumping from upper 30s to 50s and between. 2:45pm… 52F 5:10pm… 41F 6:40pm… 39F 8:30pm… 55F 10:30pm… 45F

Not to tell people what they can and can’t complain about but both winter and summer expectations are skewed on the forum by the sun/solar cycle. It’s dark in Nov/Dec, it should be deep winter. March 1st has the solar of like early October, but 3/1 is so much more likely to snow big than the darkness of 12/1. It is what it is and folks will forever not like it, ha. Same with how the summer solstice can be 50s and rain in June… but two months later in August it’s very difficult. Deep summer is almost never here for the true longest days of sunlight… despite expectations that it should be HHH because it’s light until 9:30pm.

So you’re ok with a 5-week winter if it happens in December but because it was February it doesn’t count? A lot of assumptions there that even a 4 foot pack would last all winter from January onward. Couple good cutters can do quite a number. All of these daily discussions come back to folks wanting winter at the solar minimum. Deep winter during deep darkness when there’s a real climo lag.

The mid-slopes are going to absolutely torch tonight and stay mixed. It’s still 40s at the summits, with the valleys now below the inversion tickling 30s (39F MVL I saw). But that 1500-2500ft level that’s not valley will get the full brunt of the warmth tonight just above the surface inversion.

Hope everything works out Mreaves, and wish a fast recovery.

The snowmaking trails should be fine, but it definitely leads to a bit more crowding on the hill as everyone gets funneled into the same runs. Much more enjoyable with natural snow trails going to spread people out. Definitely could go for a full 7+ days of round the clock snowmaking temps anytime soon again. It feels like expansion has been very slow lately because you're always doubling back to make snow in the same areas after each of these "thaws". We lost about 36 good hours of snowmaking too last weekend after the wind storm, as Stowe Electric had so many trees/poles down that the mountain took a "civic pause" to not stress the local power grid as the snowmaking system is a massive electric draw. It's definitely becoming a sneaky poor first half of winter looking at what the next 7 days should bring too. We were super lucky to get that big heavy/dense snow event a couple weeks ago as I think most mountains have been largely surviving on that for natural snow trails.

Don’t worry, it’s fake. It’s really warm outside your place you just don’t know it.

Natural stuff took a full on beating. Patrol here has closed pretty much all of it. Somehow Toll House is still going but it's flat, ha.