After a few days of stormy weather, the skies went bluebird today. The mountain is looking pretty solid after this storm. A few thin spots, but some nicely loaded areas too. No official word yet…but it is that time of year to get your gear together and throw a wax on those skis. Just sayin’.

Tuesday’s storm came in nicely and things are looking better out there. Our Slope Maintenance crew will be out the mountain today track-packing, conducting some light grooming, and evaluating the trails. Stay tuned.

We had a few more inches of snow over the weekend into the start of the work week. There is more on the horizon for tonight and around the Thanksgiving holiday. Here’s to hoping we can outperform the forecast this week and get this thing going.

It’s a mixed bag of conditions based on aspect and elevation. Some of our north and east facing slopes look good and are primarily covered in snow with a settled base of around a foot. Other areas are a bad mix of thin or patchy conditions and some are downright ugly with bare ground exposed from wind, sun or both.…

I was hoping that the weekend storm would deliver more than was originally forecast. Instead, it was spot on with a storm total of just 4″ of snow. I admit that the mountain appears to be covered in a deep blanket of snow. It looks good from afar, but in reality it’s far from good to go. I have been…

I got out at the end of the day after work to tour around the mountain. As suspected, our track-packing has set up nicely but we are definitely in need of additional snowfall before we can get into tilling any slopes on a regular basis. It looks like we received a few inches overnight and it is going to snow…

We are off to a good start after the weekend storm. Our Slope Maintenance crew has made progress track-packing several trails on just about every aspect on the mountain. The higher density snow from the storm is setting up nicely as a solid base. We received about an 1 1/2″ of water out of the storm. I got out today…

With the latest round of snow, we now start turning our efforts towards doing the things we need to do to open the mountain. The game now is to save what snow we have while prepping for more to come. Ahead of the storm, our patrol crew set up temporary snowfences around the mountain. These help to capture wind drifted…

Our Vehicle Maintenance crew has all our snowcats tracked up and ready to go. This incredible team of guys work extremely hard over the summer months conducting annual service and repairs to our fleet of machines. Not only does this include meticulously going through our eight snowcats, but they also conduct repairs and maintenance work on our front end loaders…

It looks like we may have some weather moving in this weekend and into early next week. I love looking at the weather models this time of year hoping to see that next storm on the horizon. The image below is from the CPC for precipitation chances between November 8th and 12th. Keep your fingers crossed.