This past weekend I was sick and it was warm and rainy. We lost pretty much all our snow below 1200 feet. It looked like we were past max snowpack, and I was a little depressed. And then Sunday night it cooled off and snowed. I woke up to sunshine and snow in my yard. It changed my mood completely.
After work I climbed up the mountain with the dogs and found a powder stash in the North Bowl. It was Heaven for me on skis but a little deep for the dogs - so I only did one run.
It stayed below freezing for most of the day, but I was amazed how quickly the sun still melted the snow. There would be snow in the shadows and a sharp melt line where it met the sunshine. At the pass looking south at the slopes facing north it looked all snowy, but looking towards the north and the south facing slopes it looked all brown. It was kind of a cool optical effect.
But up on high the sun did not melt the new snow! It is still winter up there.
Patrick
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