The snow finally arrives--BIG TIME!!!!

I know I haven't been too active at posting, but to be honest, there was not much to post about in November. We had a very dry month, and a couple of ski areas even had to delay their opening by a few days due to lack of natural snow. The snowmakers did an EXCELLENT job of making due with very limited help from Mother Nature, but with daytime highs running in the 60s, there was only so much they could do.

All that changed last week. At my house, I got about a foot of snow over the first weekend of December, but then we had a MAJOR windstorm on 12/3 (hurricane force winds even blew part of the roof off my house!). Since then it has been snowing almost CONSTANTLY until today. Monarch Ski Resort received 65 inches of snow in a 48 hour period during one part of this storm, and Crested Butte has received something like 8+ FEET of snow in the last week!

This picture was taken off the east side of my deck in a lull between 2 storms--we received another 6 inches or so that night! That table in the lower right corner of the picture (that is buried under snow) is a 60" oval shaped picnic table--not a small table. This should show you how much snow has accumulated in the last week!

I have not been out skiing yet this season, as I injured myself trying to mitigate some of the damage to my roof during that wind storm, but I have talked with many friends who have been up already, and conditions right now are LEGENDARY! We are now above average in terms of snowpack, and more is forecast. I don't think anyone should worry about snow conditions at this point!

Wax up the boards and get ready for a great winter! THINK SNOW!

Steve