Poster: A snowHead
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Breckenridge ski resort has had the most snow this year since records began 20 years ago. The resort, on average, gets around 375 inches of snow. This year, there's been 511 inches. And Loveland ski area could also see records broken this season. The all-time record for a single season is 572 inches, set in 1995-1996. So far, this year, 536 inches of snow have fallen, but more is forecast this week.
Meanwhile, a 40-year all time record for single season snowfall was reached yesterday at Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort. Snowfall hit the 690-inch mark. The previous single season official record was 688 inches, set in the 1983-84 season.
...See: http://www.9news.com/news/article/194844/188/Record-season-for-mountain-snowfall and http://www.kdvr.com/news/kdvr-loveland-ski-snowfall-record-20110426,0,5572936.story and http://www.theskichannel.com/news/skinews/20110426/Snowbird-Ski-Resort-sets-snowfall-record
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Scooting through the webcams at http://www.snoweye.com/ , in most areas you'd be scratching your head and wondering where all that 'record snowfall' has gone.
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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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moffatross wrote: |
Scooting through the webcams at http://www.snoweye.com/ , in most areas you'd be scratching your head and wondering where all that 'record snowfall' has gone. |
I skied Breck on Saturday, Vail Sunday and A-Basin today- all had plenty of snow and good conditions, but the sun is pretty strong this time of year and melts off the south facing stuff pretty fast- We have had a number of days the past two weeks where there was snow covering the streets when I woke up with more flakes falling during the day, but no snow on the streets by the afternoon. We also had quite a bit of wind at time which scoured some spots while blowing in extra snow in others.
It was a really great year here overall, but A-Basin and Loveland are the only two resorts in the area still open- not because of lack of snow, but because of a lack of paying skiers.
the A-Basin web cam still shows plenty of snow to me- http://www.arapahoebasin.com/ABasin/snow-conditions/web-cams.aspx
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omg, that is a tiny ski area
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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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Skied easter holidays, two weeks. We returned last saturday. If it was't for Brits and the odd Mexican then the place would have been pretty empty, certainly ski school would have all gone fishing. I took three days of "group" lesson and had one on one. Given the amazing powder conditions it a was truly fantastic trip. Full tr to follow when i have time in may.
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Frosty wrote: |
Skied easter holiday in Breckenridges. We returned last saturday. If it was't for Brits and the odd Mexican then the place would have been pretty empty, certainly ski school would have all gone fishing. I took three days of "group" lesson and had one on one. Given the amazing powder conditions it a was truly fantastic trip. Full tr to follow when i have time in may. |
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moffatross wrote: |
Here's the nearest thing I can find on the web to an objective tally of snowfall in the US this season http://goldensnowglobe.com/all-snowiest-us-cities/ which shows that most of the snow focus was in the North East, with Central states being pretty average and the West and South West being the snow losers this season. Syracuse in NY State was the snowiest city and even it didn't beat its previous record snow fall tally.
The ski area referred to above (Arapahoe Basin) is between 3,300 and 4,000 metres http://www.snow-forecast.com/resorts/Arapahoe-Basin so it would be gobsmacking if those webcam views weren't still looking snowy. As it happens, I don't think there'd be any mountain slopes in Europe at the same elevation that aren't still entirely white right now.
Closer to home, Scotland actually had a pretty good winter (lots early on but those big falls faded out from mid to late season) although a couple of hundred miles further south, the Pennine ski areas in the North of England had arguably close to record lows (very few patches are remaining in the Lakes and Pennines now) and were exceptionally poor compared to last season. Just goes to show how incredibly localised good snow can be across a nation not much bigger than some individual states in the US.
PS ... why can't posts in 'snownews' be user edited |
The goldensnowblobe link is useful if you care about how much snow US cities received, but most of us over here do our skiing in the mountains, not cities. For the NE, the extra snow in the cities did translate into extra snow for the ski resorts (from what I understand), but here in Colorado, there is often an inverse correlation as Denver is on the east side of the Continental divide and the ski resorts are mostly on the West side. All the I-70 & Northern Co resorts had good snow years as did many of the Utah, Wyoming, Lake Tahoe and other Western areas. If you want to see how the ski resorts did, a better source is the "2010-11 Ski Season Progress Report as of April 10, 2011" on http://bestsnow.net/
For anecdotal proof, a UK friend who spent the Jan-April '10 in Vail, started this season in Verbier and bailed on it in March and came back over here for April...I'm pretty sure he was very happy with his decision...many of my neighbors are tired of the snow and are ready for Summer (or at least Spring weather).
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