Powder Across the Land
April 16th, 2009Posted in Skiing Everywhere
Winter isn’t done with us yet. The powder keeps falling here in the Tetons. Yesterday the mountains received another 16″ new snow and more is predicted for today and tonight.
So how did this winter turn out for powder skiers? Pretty good, I’d say- especially good if you ski Alta and Snowbird! Alta is reporting 676″ and Snowbird is at 597″- and they’re still counting. Here in the Tetons, Targhee totaled 529″ by its closing day and Jackson had 502″.
Good totals reported elsewhere: Mt. Bachelor-506″, Mammoth-459″, Kirkwood-452″, Powder Mtn.-448″, Vail-427″, Snowbasin-421″.
From Montana northward, totals seem sub par this year until we look at Alyeska at 594″. But Bridger got only 310″, Fernie only 259″, and Red Mountain had 231″. Whitewater at 350″ and Whistler at 330″ did better.
In the East, northern Vermont had a good winter; Jay Peak- 377″, Stowe-352″, Sugarbush-283″ and Killington-280″. I only found one season total in New Hampshire and that was Wildcat’s 170″, but its microclimate directly east of looming Mount Washington could explain that.
Young powder skiers with many decades of skiing ahead of them might want to pay attention to annual snow fall trends. Just a thought.
Last year we were still skiing fresh powder in June here in the Tetons. I’m hoping we’ll do as well again this year.
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