Adverse Conditions

Lately we've had a pretty good cycle of storms.  In town for the last few weeks it has been hard rain and 35-40 degrees every other day.  In the mountains it has been pretty much all snow above 1000 feet.  On a SAT photo of the North Pacific you can see the storms stacked up and ready to roll.  One after the other. We are getting a lot of snow - we already have more snow on Pyramid than we have got for a few years over the course of the entire snow season!  And it's only January.  Of course back in the day this was also a normal winter.

It also means we have been skiing in some pretty adverse conditions.  I've found that sometimes the best snow for skiing is near or right after the end of the storm.  Go a little later after it has cleared off and it is often all frozen up and icy.  But it is always soft just before the end of a storm - maybe it's pretty wet but at least it is soft!  Patrick