Sierra-at-Tahoe 2/23/07 claimed 58" new in past 24 hour

[tseeb]

From http://www.sierraattahoe.com/winter/snow-report.asp

SNOW TOTALS
BASE SUMMIT
New Snow in the last 12 hours (5pm-5am) 42" 42"
New Snow in the last 24 hours (5am-5am) 58" 58"
New Snow in the last 48 hours (5am-5am) 62" 62"
Base Depth 82" 134"

We drove from Bay Area to South Tahoe Thursday night planning to ski Sierra and were amazed to hear them reporting 58" new this morning. Kirkwood claimed 36-48" new. but has more avalanche control to do before they open steeper terrain, plus they are twice as far from South Tahoe. The snow level during the day on Thursday was as low as 2000 feet so this was very dry snow for CA. While it's hard to verify their totals, when we went in for lunch at 1 PM and put our ski and poles in the snowbank, the poles nearly disappeared. Sorry no pictures as I had my camera, but the SD card was left in my computer. There were face shots available all day and the biggest problem was crowds which led to 5-10 minute waits for their two long high-speed quads.

 

[Admin]

Nice score!

 

[ChrisC]

58" at Sierra?

I drove right by it on Friday morning. I did think there was impressive storm totals at 4000-5000 (2ft+) on 50 knowing that those elevations have seen very little this year due to warm storms/lack of snow.

Kirkwood's 36" was true and I'll give them 48" in spots easily. And I complained about Kirkwood's snowfall totals about 2 weeks ago.

I would figure measuring is tough with compaction of multiple feet of snow. Anyways, nice problem to have.

Sierra on Saturday was still very good in the woods and backside with knee deep+ the rule.

 

[tseeb]

I found a picture from my wife's cell phone. On our first run on Castle, which was marked as groomed, and many other times during the day in the trees and the edge of runs, the snow was so deep that I was getting blinded by it.

 

[ChrisC]

I have no wife that would want too crusty.........