I Knew There Was A Good Reason!
March 16th, 2010Posted in Skiing in the Tetons
I’ve been pondering offering up a mea culpa about this blog’s lack of activity- in an Olympic year no less, and one with much to celebrate as the US Alpine team rocked the Austrians, the Swiss and all the others.
The blog’s title says it all, Powder Blog. With little powder, there is little enthusiasm. How little? One of our local papers, Valley Citizen, has posted the bad news.
“According to the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), only 1977 had less snow in the past 50 years, and you have to go as far back as 1931 to find the second worst water year. For this year, the snowpack is 58 percent of average above American Falls and 56 percent of average above Rexburg for the Henry’s Fork. Not any better in Wyoming, the Hoback Basin is the worst at 47 percent of average, not much better than the Snake above Jackson, which sits uncomfortably at 51 percent of average. “
I had been checking SNOTEL’s data lately and observing the same bleak story.
Worse, my skis and my friends skis are always visible when going down the mountains, there never being enough snow to cover them, so mostly they are visible in the garage awaiting a never arriving powder dump.
Maybe next winter will make up for this one.
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