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Got a lil purple overhead. I think we’d manage, lol.
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What the hell is Skynet? Is that the traffic helicopter on NBC?
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Eh it would’ve just been 45 pages in the main thread lol. -
It’s winter in the mountains. This is Smuggs from a friend.
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Finally a nice day after the multi-day siege of wind and snow.
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What we know for sure is that we don’t know.
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One of the more impressive walks from staff parking to the Mtn Ops Center at 5am this morning. I don't have to, but the morning walk in the elements really sets the tone of the day to me. The snowbanks were getting sculpted into hard slab, which only happens in high, sustained winds.
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From a friend at about 3,000ft today between Stowe and Smuggs on the Snuffies/Sterling Pond trail. 6-8 foot drifts filling the trail between the trees after 3 days of 50-80mph winds.
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That cam is the poster child for this event haha. The thing had an extra flip in it the other day… we think the wind literally pushed it enough to trigger the flipping mechanism. That thing looks like it just went through battle for the past 72 hours of 50-80mph wind and sub-zero cold. It’s like, “I’m still standing. I might have a black eye, missing a shoe, and struggling but what else ya got another Nature?”
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The most insane wind I can remember here this morning. Blew down the old school red snow fence at top of Quad by the Octagon. I also found a large tower pad in the Spruce base from halfway up the Meadows Quad. The Lookout Cam looks haggard like it’s been in battle with Mother Nature for days. Now accumulating parts of trees as they get shredded.
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This is some of the most incredible wind I can remember. Day 3 of tropical storm gusts at 0F and snow. As gnarly as it gets up here at the mountain.
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It’s been an impressively long stretch of high winds and cold.
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It’s like 3 foot drifts alongside large areas of scour. The wind has smoked all open areas, with drifts in the lee of any topography change. It goes from wind stripped crust, to deep snow. Highly variable, comes with long duration windstorms.
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-SN obs go back to January 6th at 8pm. Solid wintry vibe for the past 48 hours. 8F… 8” wind-packed OTG. Not deep winter but winter.
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Dude anything is going feel balmy if it’s like 15F with little wind. This has been a pretty gnarly stretch in the high elevations. We’re going to report/record a storm total of like 6” with monster drifts and thigh deep snow in areas . Toll Road: Stafford wallowing through thigh deep from the Stone Hut last night.
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I have no idea how you’d tell. We have 3-5 foot drifts and then nothing. Like this Smuggs photo… 2” overnight and this haha.
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Just continues to blow and snow. 2” at the plots and 3 foot drifts.
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High Road at midday. Wind just filling everything in between the trees. The board starts 2” off the ground, so when the whole thing fills in, it tries to capture the real snowfall. If this stake started at the packed out snow level, it would be 2” higher over most readings.
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Nice, that looks like a healthy snow plot 4-6” of new snow. Scour 0” over old pack and 12” in the drifts.
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It does show in the means.
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You guys can clean up on the real biggies, but it can be a while between them. That’s how I look at your snow climo. Very low floor but decently high ceiling climo.
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That’s pretty impressive to be honest. Last four years aren’t even close to normal.
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Drifts and scour. Upper mountain snow plots showing 3”, Midway parking lot filling in. Who knows how much is out there.
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Some truly gnarly conditions out on the hill today. 50-60mph gusts even in the base area. White out conditions and single digit temps in the parking lots. Upper mountain was just crushed by wind, no idea on actual snow accumulations because everywhere is wind affected. Wind shredding the Lift Closed banner.
