Besides tonight, its looking grim here in Colorado through mid-December. Cold air coming in will allow for some snowmaking, but not much moisture in the air the next few weeks.

We might squeak out 6" tonight here in Steamboat. Only real chance for accumulation we have in the near future.

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Side note: Decent skier (no issue with harder blues & easier blacks) but I'd like to get a lot better. Not dropping the coin on individual lessons... is it worth taking group lessons or just figure it out on my own?

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Figure it out on your own. Besides the basics, there isn’t really much you’ll learn in a class.

Yep, very concerned I'm going to have to cancel my Mid-December trip to Steamboat. I have until the 14th to cancel. Keep checking opensnow everyday hoping the forecast will improve, haha.

SLC

I'll be skiing at least 1 day per week, so some improvement will come naturally.

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Rode the Gondi to mid-mountain and skinned to the summit of Mt. Werner. Earned some deep turns down Bar UE lift line. Super light snow. It was great.

Some much needed powder therapy!

Yeah, it was on the closed part of the upper mountain. We basically have one run officially open.

We used the gondola to get us to 9000ft and summited Mt. Werner at 10,500ft. So we skinned about 1500 vertical feet. Definitely not in the shape I wanna be right now, but the climb wasn't too bad. We stopped for about 20-30 minutes before the final 500'.

Lift shack at the top of the mountain was unlocked, so we got to hang in there to eat and change gear before the downhill descent. We ski'd a nice protected, north facing line that got some decent windloading last night. Thigh deep in spots, and felt bottomless at times.

Well worth the slog up the mountain for 45 seconds of pure bliss. Decent skiing on the way down and then I had to dodge snow making guns and piles of snow on the way down the cattrack to the base.

Day 3/Final day here at jackson hole: surprise powder day! It's been snowing all day and last night, seems to be another 3-5" of fresh snow today. Snowing below the summit, sun is out at top of sublette. Haven't hit a bad run yet

Top of sublette is sunny, snowing below
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Snow off thunder lift
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View from tensleep
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Snow looks like it'll pick back up around Dec 16th so hope it works out and the tram opens for you. They were running it but only for ski patrol. There was no one here the past few days, 0 lift lines and powder galore. Time to head back to LA unfortunately

Website is way off. Headwall, tensleep, cirque, some of the chutes off sublette are all open plus more by teton lift. Tram and the midmountain gondola were only things closed, but its early season so that was reasonable

That's awesome

Hopefully the snow keeps up... excited for good conditions send of December