re: 2021-2022 Ski Thread

Caught my first winter weather product of the season, for 5-10" and gusts pushing 55 mph. Christmas will be bountiful in ski country.

Glad to hear you had no issues

Finally made it to Canyons and the Epic app is lying because half the runs the app said were open werent... so I spent about 2.5 hours lapping the same 4 groomers

Overall I made the most of today given the very limited terrain. I liked the bump runs off McConkeys Lift. I did McConkeys Bowl once and it was tougher than double black diamonds bumpers at Vail or Beaver Creek. It was steep as shite combined with massive irregular shaped moguls. Saw a lot of people falling in their attempts at it....and I was no different, I had a spill on it as well and now have a massive bruise on my left calf from it

Waiting on the 06z HRRR to do it's thing, because you just love what you see from the 00z suite.

Park City folks, looking at somewhere around 24-30" of snow through Christmas.

Breck looks to be in the 8-16" range, with potential to overperform the way the models are coming in. Copper will do similarly.

Hell, I'm thinking I get 4-8" at the house. Models are suggestive of more but with the wind direction and how we typically perform, idk.

The most incredible runs (in Colorado) are coming in for Wolf Creek though.

GFS ensembles: 20" by Christmas and a staggering 38" by NYD.

Euro ensembles: 18" by Christmas but a whopping 47" by NYD. They tend to run a little hot in these parts though.

I hope to make Wolf Creek eventually. I know getting there can be tricky and there isn't much to do besides skiing.

CuseTiger:

Sounds good man, we’ll bring skiing Heavenly Saturday for sure, and watching LSU basketball game that day too. I believe we play Tennessee

Skipants [on] off

Snow beginning to fall (wont amount to anything before tonight I think) here.

OpenSnow quit giving free details this morning. I broke down and got the full subscription.
. These 10-day forecast are looking mighty fine.

Light wet snow in PC today. Glad I didn't ski today.Should pick up this evening for a good ski day tomorrow.

It'd be worth it for me to pay for it, and I dont need the analysis.

Tomorrow, I think Vail Pass is closed for most of the day. Mostly because I expect wrecks with Christmas Eve traffic. Sunday, at least right now doesnt look too bad for driving out though probably some snow coming in.

Here in Twin Lakes, flurries continue. Enough to add a trace to the remaining snow on the ground. Snow quality is improving some, bigger flakes surviving as the boundary layer cools and saturates.

Steady snow set in along the high peaks on the divide.

ETA: falling at a steady clip here now. Earlier than I expected to start accumulating here. All good signs.

ETA2: Got a surprise 1/2" by 6 pm. Very wet, reminds me of east coast snow. Models only had a trace on me by now, with things picking up later tonight. 31 degrees 94% humidity.

Copper has 3-4" thus far.

Vail sitting on 2"

Breck is 3-4" as well.

Just starting up in Park City it looks like, but falling at a good rate.