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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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just been looking at the forecasts, 191cm in the next 5 days, jesus that is good. never been to whistler, would love to go one day!
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I just love it when people promote Whistler.
It leaves the decent ski resorts to the rest of us.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I think its fair to say this is pretty exceptional and constitutes news not just pimping. Any word on what the avy prognosis is for the season with that much on a low base, how's the temp gradient been?
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| Ricklovesthepowder wrote: |
| just been looking at the forecasts, 191cm in the next 5 days, jesus that is good. never been to whistler, would love to go one day! |
Lots of snow means little sun.
Olympics could get snowed off for a while.
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snowed off??? hmmmmm
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You can just see the headlines - "Wintery weather ruins plans for Winter Olympics"... 
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or
"Global Cooling Menace!! New Ice Age Threatens Olympics!!"
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fatbob,
The following from the avalanche advisory:
"The intense storm that hammered our region with high winds and heavy snowfall over the past several days has now abated. A total of 142 cm of snow fell since Sunday morning. In any wind loaded areas the foot penetration is up to your armpits, with ski penetration to your waist resulting in major wallowing in gentle terrain. Winds were gusting to 120kph at and below the treeline last night, uprooting hundreds of trees adding to the heinous travel conditions. Best to stay inbounds until after the next storm cycle passes and the storm snow layers have had a chance to settle a bit.
Avalanche Activity:
Minimal explosive and ski testing on Whistler Mountain this morning produced up to size two avalanches, with some natural avalanche activity also observed to have occurred during the storm. Crown lines today were up to 40cm in depth, mostly lower down in the start zones than usual. The stiffer wind loaded slab on the surface was moving easily on an underlying softer layer of snow, all of which was on top of a moist layer of snow that formed with the rising freezing levels on Sunday night. Poor visibility hampered observations of any activity in high alpine terrain.
Snowpack:
Our snowpack is a huge improvement over the one that plagued us for the bulk of last year's season. There have been no inherent weaknesses observed within the snowpack aside from the aforementioned storm snow instabilities and any recently formed melt freeze crusts. Surface faceting has been observed around the 2000m elevation. It appears that some wind exposed areas with shallow snow cover were moistened by Sunday?s mild temperatures, and have since become faceted with the cooler temperatures during the past 24hrs. We been unable to access the glaciers to assess the bond with the summer firn and glacial ice, but you can expect it to take some time yet before the widespread crevasses become firmly bridged over. Looking ahead to the near future, we should end up with a good solid snowpack when all of the dust settles."
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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whistler Snow alert:
SNOW RECORD BROKEN: It's official, November is the snowiest on record with 418cm (14 feet) of snow and there are 12 days left in the month. It's still snowing and more is in the forecast!
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Think i picked a good year to move to Vancouver  !
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Will all the people in Canada please keep very quiet. Go out and enjoy your snow but don't post about it. What little snow we had is melting in Europe and you reminding us of your good fortune is not helping 
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You know it makes sense.
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bobinch, if it helps someone working up at Kicking Horse preparing the hill for the season (on TGR) said that it was 'armpit deep'.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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DrE, you been up there yet? It sounds amazing, altho not much terrain open yet. We're likely to be there next week for 4 days over US ThxGiving. Hopefully it'll stop snowing for a while and let snowpack settle so csome of steeps and alpine can be opened.
And Whistler locals, didn't Nov 2004 start well with good early season skiing, before the January floods arrived (I may be wrong - was away that year skiing Japan!)? It's a reasonably strong El Nino right now, so I reckon get into the pow while you can. Just in case. I intend to 
It's pretty darn good down here in the Cascades right now too! Love starting ski season on Nov 14th.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Total cumulative snowfall
Snow depths are measured at Pig Alley Weather Station - 1650m (Mid-Mountain) on Whistler Mtn.
482 cm
188 in
Ouh, almost 5 meters in November, wish i'd be there:))
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| gortonator wrote: |
And Whistler locals, didn't Nov 2004 start well with good early season skiing, before the January floods arrived (I may be wrong - was away that year skiing Japan!)? |
Not really. Nov 04 had 81cm; Dec 04 130cm; then Jan o5 was the disastrous pineapple express rainstorm.
Historic (since 1982) averages for Nov and Dec are 156 and 182cm. Nov 04 was the lowest snowfall since 1987, and Dec 04 was the lowest since 1992.
I'll get me anorak.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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BRING IT ON
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greg66, thx for the update - makes me feel better
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| Acacia wrote: |
The following from the avalanche advisory:
"... In any wind loaded areas the foot penetration is up to your armpits, with ski penetration to your waist |
There are pics on the WB website of a skier shoulder deep in what could be Franz's meadow.
I just dribbled on my keyboard.
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total is 530cm so far
here is a picture I took a few days ago now (we are getting rain at the moment)
believe it or not, that is a groomed run which was groomed about 2-3 days before the picture. It is called 'Little Red Run' on Whistler Mt.
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gortonator, are you heading up this weekend? I look forward to a report with pictures to follow! I haven't been up yet, been waiting until more terrain opens up - think i'm def going to be heading up for the weekend starting Friday 11th, hoping for some colder temps and another burst of snow! and i'll probably head up before that if we get some more snow now that blackcomb is opening up.
wbsr, i'm loving your reporting, keep up the good work!
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DrE, just arrived in Aspens at Blackcomb. Get up here dude - there's no time like the present. early and late season are the best times to explore
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Fantastic. Going to Whistler there on 11 Jan - can't wait!!!!
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last two days have been pretty good, today especially off 7th Heaven and in Glacier Bowl where there's some lovely snow off-piste. Sunny too, which is 2nd best to new snow. Hopefully some snow tonight to low elevation so should freshen up lower part of mountain. Ski outs to village are firm but very doable. Not bad for November
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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That's it, gortonator, you have convinced me - i'm heading up for first lift, bring on the snow !!
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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DrE, excellent - wasn't a bad day on Saturday at all. Hope you enjoyed it. We had some great runs in Ruby Bowl and some of the drop-ins to Harmony. Thought mid-mountain groomers were pretty good too.
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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DrE, Whistler usually stays open until early June with plenty of alpine terrain available. Plemty of time. May is one of my favorite months up there!
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Poster: A snowHead
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Well, WB have now called the Nov snowfall at 560cm. That may be a bit OTT, because I thought some of the snow arrived in October.
Anyway, that compares quite favourably to the Nov average over the last 28 years of - ahem - 156cm (now the ave sits at 171 cm for Nov). It also smashes the snowiest month on record there in the last 28 years, which was Jan 06 with 469cm. It's also over half - 1005cm - of the average total snowfall for the season over that period.
I wonder if there's any more snow left in the sky?
I'll get me anorak. Again.
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FAQ
. didn't push much out of the mid mountain groomers over on blackcomb other than a little foray off 7th heaven. The snow was great up there but pretty flat light / low vis / windy when we were up there so decided to stick to the mid mountain.
