Friday, January 11, 2008

It's Deep! Really, really deep!

SNOW: 7" (24 hrs); 22(48 hrs); Base: 62"; Total: 212"
CONDITIONS: Powder! Powder! Powder!
LIFTS: 16/18
TRAILS: 163/163
TEMP: 24/6degrees F.


The snow just keeps on coming. My legs are tired from skiing, and my arms are tired from scraping snow off my car every morning.
A winter storm dropped a whopping 25 inches of new snow in 24 hours yesterday, and today it has been topped up with another 7 inches overnight. For the past 10 days, more than three feet of snow has fallen mid-mountain at the resort and there are no signs of letting up any time soon. Steamboat is enjoying some of the best snow in the Rocky Mountains and one of the largest mid-mountain bases of the major Colorado destination resorts.
The resort is currently in a storm cycle that has yielded:
• 15 inches at mid-mountain and 25 inches at the summit overnight
• 21 inches at mid-mountain and 31 inches at the summit in past 48-hours
• 24 inches at mid-mountain and 39 inches at the summit in the past three days
• 29 inches at mid and 46 inches at the summit in the past four days
• 38 inches at mid and 53 inches at the summit in the past five days.

The resort is reporting a 62-inch base at mid-mountain and 76-inch base at the summit on powder conditions. Since the resort opened on November 30th, snow has fallen 32 out of 42days (76.2%) with 18 of those days recording four or more inches. So farthis season, Steamboat has been blanketed by 205 inches (17.08 feet) atmid-mountain and 192 inches (16 feet) at the summit.

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