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The lodge is at 5,700 and alpine terrain goes up to 8,000. You are in the situation that occurred during much of 2014-15. If the weather is clear enough to ski the alpine as I did in 2015, you will be OK. Many 2015 tours that were confined by weather/visibility below tree line sucked though.

I agree those suck.

And we think OpenSnow models are optimistic! They show a bit over half what that WePowder map shows, still promising! Those are weekend dates, so yes I would expect them to fill up fast. Drive distance for Geneva weekenders is not far. Verbier is about an hour from Chamonix. Both Liz...

Good call. This storm is so warm it is forecast even to rain halfway up Panorama and Kicking Horse. Those areas got lots of December snow when it was raining more west of Rogers Pass.

California precipitation is far above average. However, snowfall is above average only above 9,000 feet.

Of course you don't need an Ischgl/Mammoth scale area to teach kids or progress your skiing. That was not my point. How much would "he and his kids" have liked Camelback in pouring rain or on a sheet of ice? Presumably these people were day trippers and would not have been there in such a...

I don't need Hohtalli/Stockhorn to be skiable until late March, so there' still time. I agree, it's between Chamonix and the Jungfrau so fits his logistics easily. They can stay down the hill in Le Chable or even Martigny. The non-skiers can use the car for sightseeing while Jimk and his son...

Snowbird has very similar altitude/exposure parameters as Mammoth, and it's January with low sun angle. I have no doubt that LCC skiing over the next 10 or more days with no new snow will be just fine. However that forecast is a recipe for a nasty inversion down in SLC. That will make Jimk...

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like Snow Ridge and McCauley average over 200 inches, don't they? Mt. Bohemia averages 255. Also those upstate NY areas at no more than 4-1 length to vertical ratio do not need as much snow to resurface as steeper mountains do.

OpenSnow forecasts weather at the average of base and peak elevations for every resort. Alagna's base is very low, drags down that average. I was wondering with favorable forecasts for Cervinia and Saas-Fee if Zermatt is getting snow. Zermatt getting Hohtalli/Stockhorn skiable is what will...

I think those Saulire couloirs directly overlook pistes and thus might have to be controlled.

When you raised this issue in June, I sent Joel an e-mail, results discussed here. Recall I determined that there are 3 possible descriptions of any calendar month snowfall posted below the calendar. Obviously method #1 should be used when possible. But that requires a human expending time...

Hopefully you have a car for any time off to commute to BCC or LCC. Forecasters are unanimous there will be zero new snow in CA, UT or CO before then. It could be worse. Early next week it's going to rain in Washington and B.C. to over 6,000 feet.

The Berkshires are in that under 200 inch category, so not surprising.

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California percent of normal snowfall moved from 40% Christmas Eve to 71% New Year's Eve to 80% now. Utah percent of normal snowfall moved from 32% Christmas Eve to 37% New Year's Eve to 62% now. Utah now looks similar to 2011-12 and 2017-18. The upcoming mid-January dry spell :icon-lol: will...

That's one reason my daypack is small. It will fit over above the back of most chairlifts. The fancy new Doppelmayrs like chairs 1 and 16 have higher seatbacks and are the exception. Snowave absolutely hits the nail on the head here. Thus my conclusion in post #38 above.

I would guess that northern Vermont can get large enough storms for true resurfacing. I'll defer to locals as to how often that might occur. For areas averaging under 200 inches natural snow, those events are very rare. This is why I usually observe that Big Bear