WE NEED SNOW...

ZG · 11-05-2007, 09:04 AM

Starting to freak out here. There's maybe a foot on the top of the mountain, absolutely none in town.

NO SNOW IN THE FORECAST. Its messed up, people are wearing shorts and t-shirts around town.

Bring on the snow!

**skibuminwyo** · 11-05-2007, 09:24 AM

seconded... it was 70 in the valley yesterday.. however today the high is supposed to be 37?

**grskier** · 11-05-2007, 09:26 AM

Looking like another week here... but to all that, whatever, it'll happen.

**Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo** · 11-05-2007, 09:46 AM

Originally Posted by grskier

Looking like another week here... but to all that, whatever, it'll happen.

This is pretty identical to last year. Granted we had more snow in Sept/Oct but we were a full week into December before they opened the bottom half of Ajax

ZG · 11-05-2007, 10:08 AM

We definitely just need one good storm to turn things around. But at this rate, the ground hasn't even frozen. I walked the hunter creek loop yesterday, and its totally ride-able.

Just frustrating getting pumped for ski season to start in 2 weeks when its hot out.

**Shredhead** · 11-05-2007, 10:13 AM

Best year we ever had was 83 or 84. No snow at all until after Nov. 1, then it snowed 42 days in a row. Makes for a bomber snowpack. It's just running a little late this year.

**TeleSlayer** · 11-05-2007, 10:30 AM

Take a look at La nina years historically in the Jackson/Targhee area. Once the ocean waters cool off a bit more, the puke machine will start.....I just hope its before the End of December/early January, when I head up to the Tetons.... Late Snow can be Good for the overall snowpack though....Miss Jackson down here in ColoVegas......

**Powder to the People** · 11-05-2007, 04:24 PM

It is still early, it will come/better start. The long term forcast for Utah, Wyoming and Colorado show a system moving in Friday - Monday, maybe it will grow into an untaimed animal. Pray!!!

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/forecast/Map...ld2=-111.63722

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick...2=-105.879&e=0

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/forecast/Map...ld2=-111.63722

**funkendrenchman** · 11-05-2007, 04:36 PM

Originally Posted by Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo

This is pretty identical to last year. Granted we had more snow in Sept/Oct but we were a full week into December before they opened the bottom half of Ajax

Yea, it was at least 50 degrees and sunny for the World Cup. We had that one storm in mid November to open Ajax early and then nothing until the last week of the month.

advres · 11-05-2007, 04:38 PM

Originally Posted by skibuminwyo

seconded... it was 70 in the valley yesterday.. however today the high is supposed to be 37?

Whomever you got that info from is an asshole. Been outside recently? It was 60 at 10AM. Weather people are assholes.

**Optimus Prime** · 11-05-2007, 07:01 PM

I have 6 inches in my yard and I live 373ft above sea level!!! Maybe I could mail you lower 48ers some!

**montanaskier** · 11-05-2007, 07:09 PM

sunny and 60 in Vail today. This storm this weekend is sketchy at best, looks like nothing major until the 20th or so.

**nesta** · 11-05-2007, 07:26 PM

sucks here so far in Fernie. I'd be really surprised if Lake Louise has anything other than Wiwaxy open by their proposed opening date. Guy I'm working with made a few turns on the weekend south of the Crowsnest Pass along the Divide, on permanent snowfields I think. He said it snowed anywhere from 2-6" while they camped out. Bottom Line is we need SNOW and we need it NOW

**FrankZappa** · 11-05-2007, 07:34 PM

Have you ever noticed the "warm before the storm?"

And if it's more "warmer" before, it's a bigger storm?

I prefer to think of it as a hudge, warm, glass is half full (and getting fuller), kind of thing. The law of averages can only be in our favor.

**manchester81** · 11-05-2007, 08:49 PM

Originally Posted by nesta

sucks here so far in Fernie. I'd be really surprised if Lake Louise has anything other than Wiwaxy open by their proposed opening date. Guy I'm working with made a few turns on the weekend south of the Crowsnest Pass along the Divide, on permanent snowfields I think. He said it snowed anywhere from 2-6" while they camped out. Bottom Line is we need SNOW and we need it NOW

That is what it is looking like for Louise. SSV just pushed their opening back to the 15th....we hope.

**blarin** · 11-05-2007, 09:20 PM

GLOBAL WARMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

**MOHSHSIHd** · 11-05-2007, 10:06 PM

I am jonesing as hard as everybody else, but there is at least one good thing about the snow not coming in so fast and furious.

I'm at least hoping the cold nights with no snow so far have chilled the ground enough to minimize depth hoar. Last year in Colorado it dumped alot early when the ground was still too warm and alot of terrain was sketch for the better part of the season.

at least thats one way of looking at this late snow.

**skikola** · 11-05-2007, 10:11 PM

pretty quite in tahoe......
and I'm watching epic conditions on weather channel, all about
the sierras and how sick the skiing is here. this is killing me right now,
but I know it will come.

**gunniride** · 11-05-2007, 10:38 PM

Just today I was looking in all directions, where there is usually plenty of white here, I could only see brown (from gunni not CB). The only skiing I've done was some meager 6"-8" turns above Irwin. However... it makes me think how fortunate we are in the backcountry on the worst of years. If there is even a few feet of snow on a northern pitch, the options open up incredibly, though still unsafe as far as ground hazards go.

On a similar note, the only season I left Colorado for a winter, I arrived to a bone dry Tahoe. It remained that way until thanksgiving week, when it basically snowed for the rest of the winter. I recall the first time someone said "they are calling for two to three tonight". Being accustomed to the trace mtn. 3" storms of Crested Butte, I replied "well anything to soften it up a bit". To this my friend said "no bud, here we measure snow in feet, 2-3 feet." Sure enough, by the end of the storm I was looking for places to shovel snow out of the driveway that already had huge berms of snow on every side.

**Kevo** · 11-05-2007, 10:45 PM

Originally Posted by MOHSHSIHd

I am jonesing as hard as everybody else, but there is at least one good thing about the snow not coming in so fast and furious.

I'm at least hoping the cold nights with no snow so far have chilled the ground enough to minimize depth hoar. Last year in Colorado it dumped alot early when the ground was still too warm and alot of terrain was sketch for the better part of the season.

at least thats one way of looking at this late snow.

Cold nights will just create surface hoar on all north facing slopes where there is still snow, potentially causing an unstable layer when we do get our next storm.

**FigureEleven** · 11-06-2007, 03:08 PM

Heh, I rode it two days ago. There were some sketchy icy sections. This is still within the realm of what is normal here.

Originally Posted by ZG

We definitely just need one good storm to turn things around. But at this rate, the ground hasn't even frozen. I walked the hunter creek loop yesterday, and its totally ride-able.

Just frustrating getting pumped for ski season to start in 2 weeks when its hot out.