powderfreak

Very good point, ha. Always wonder if the model is built to “score” well with a disconnect based on actual surface outcomes.

“We don’t live at 500mb” seems to come to mind too. I always hear about it’s H5 scores.

We have a much lower capacity than the others. Only a few main lifts, limited parking, etc. It has also felt like the cap was fairly well positioned without getting totally out of control. But we’ll see, may be eating those words, ha. This is definitely a “destination” ski area that sees longer term stays vs day trips.

From a skiing perspective a thaw is anything that ruins the snow surface. I’ve had dry powder in my yard for at least a month now. Snow on the trees has been there for a very long time in spots. But you are also right, departures were ridiculous for a lot of January. Just no thawing.

Awesome...we had some brief light snow, but largely had a sunny day this afternoon with some occasional ridge clouds. Tons of blowing of drifting of snow on the ridgeline and Chin. Lots of snow transport going on today in the higher alpine areas. The skiing and riding has been about as good as it gets. Hasn't rained in over a month and the consistent snowfall every other day works itself in despite the low QPF. It all adds up over time and provides a lot of pow turns.

Winter as it should be today.

That makes sense, I'm just busting your balls. I know when the sun angle goes up we start thinking of other things. It is wishful thinking though at any point of March in NNE. Even April.

Stein getting drowned in snow.

Ahh interesting. That makes sense. The variability between super deep pack in woods and sun spots burning out probably is a bit more problematic for snowmachines than skiers. Probably takes a beating on warm days from the weight of the sleds... ruts and soft spots. I guess take it back a couple weeks... probably like March 1 is prime time then for mix of snowpack depth, length of daylight and still being winter for snowmobilers?

I mean mid-March in NNE can be one of my favorite times for enjoying snow. It’s light out past 4pm and it’s often still cold enough but not overly cold...and if it’s mild, it’s often a low wet-bulb dry 50F on top of deepest snow depths. I’d think the snowmobiling is about as good as it gets at times, just like skiing. You guys can probably pack on some big mileage days with that daylight too, and don’t have to dress like an eskimo.

Why no use for it? Snowpack usually at its deepest, long daylight hours to enjoy it (snowmobiling off into the sunset) and it’s usually not 10 below zero either. Thats the best time to enjoy winter.

I love how you say “may be a break” and Kev immediately thinks of a thaw like Christmas.

Let’s Kuchie fluffer nutter that Sunday event in the snow globe.

Ha! That seems like a weak closure for British Columbia interior mountains. That's not that cold.

Looks like that's yesterday's snow after the 6am report? I don't think anything happened overnight. Nothing more than some scattered flurries up this way per grooming last night. Decent amount of stars out too.

Bread and butter on the south shore. Love to see it. Just refresh every day or two.

That’s how climo works... every storm isn’t a gradient with the north getting the most each time. Even several events in a row can favor areas with much lower snow climo. In the end, Mother Nature loves her averages. This is the time of year with the furthest south baroclinic zone. Very glad so many posters can get a taste of snow-on-snow winter.

I saw some photos from Gabe at Sugarbush today, looks like they got the same amount in these squalls as Mansfield. This was one of those high ratio moose fart snows but models had no real indication of a flare up of any consequence. I definitely was caught off guard with pockets of 30-40dbz rolling into the Spine. This was last evening's 18z EURO output for 4am-10am the next morning, ha. This ended up dropping 5-6" in like 3 hours at the ski areas where zero measurable water was expected. Tough to forecast that.

It's pretty nuts in the upslope zone for ski conditions. 5" in 3 hours this morning, and I think it's snowed 12 of the last 14 days.

Ho-Lee-Fuk

I've been hanging with you in the totals this season. Normally you are up with J.Spin and out of reach of me. This winter we seem to be running fairly identical. J.Spin is about where he usually is relative to me.

High Road Stake on Mansfield had 9" stack from last 30 hours or so.

This is wild. It snows every single day. Locals on cloud nine, high fives and hoots and hollers coming from all over the ski area.

He’s trying to say he wants Bryce playing in the mud while he gets blue bombed over and over vs. blue balled. But I don’t really get the jackpot fetish as long as there’s snow on the ground and it’s snowing either.

3+ at the ski area since 6am.