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Record snow fall in US resorts

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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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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. rolling eyes
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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. rolling eyes


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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MEfree30 wrote:
... the only two resorts in the area still open- not because of lack of snow, but because of a lack of paying skiers.

That's often the Scottish problem and it was a similar travesty to be looking at Glencoe's webcam views in April and early May in recent seasons & seeing so much skiable snow but closed because the customer base had mostly lost interest.

MEfree30 wrote:
... the A-Basin web cam still shows plenty of snow to me- http://www.arapahoebasin.com/ABasin/snow-conditions/web-cams.aspx

That looks fantastic. Wish I could be there. snowHead It looks like the forum headline is at fault again though as the 'record snowfall' in the US hasn't been universal has it ? It's been consistent in a fair few lucky states but others have been rather mediocre hence my reference to clicking around the webcam views across the USA.

davidof wrote:
omg, that is a tiny ski area

Oddly enough, not far off the size of Glencoe ski centre either with about 3.5 square kilometres of terrain served by ski lifts and a longest run of 1.5 miles, there's plenty to do for day trippers. I can't imagine 10,700 bodies being moved per hour at Glencoe though, its car park only caters for about 200 cars. Laughing
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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 wink 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. Little Angel

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 Puzzled
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moffatross wrote:


The ski area referred to above (Arapahoe Basin) is between 3,300 and 4,000 metres wink 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. Little Angel


the configuration looks very similar to one of my local resorts: le collet d'allevard which had a front and back bowl with pistes plus three further bowls with no pistes or lifts (although plans to build a lift are afoot). The collet has 650 meters of vertical, although from 1400m there obviously isn't much snow now.

There are a lot of places you could build similar resorts above 2300m in the Alps which would make them pretty snowsure from late November into mid May but there is limited interest in skiing by March.
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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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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 wink 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. Little Angel

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 Puzzled


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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