This is unreal. http://www.mtbaker.us/gallery/main.php
Then Bluebird. Why do I live in Vermont?
Sounds like good cross weather. Just need beer, bells and bicycles.
Ric
That is amazing! I could be wrong but I think I read Mt. Baker (or somewhere nearby) has the world record for snowfall in a season…like 1100" or so. And it didn’t happen too long ago. Pretty wild stuff.
WOW! Why doesnt it dump like that here in the North East? I am waxing up my rock skis as we speak. Ugh!
lol…and Americans think Canada is snowy!!! WOW!
Do you think that would be TOO much snow to handle? I don’t think I could handle living in an area that gets pounded like that.
2 words:
FAT SKIS
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Yep, those would be helpful! You’d also need to carry an avalanche beacon 24/7 
This is unreal. http://www.mtbaker.us/gallery/main.php
Then Bluebird. Why do I live in Vermont?
I learned to ski at age 23 in Washington State (Snoqualmie, Crystal Mt with a 10’ base, etc.). When I came back east and skied at Hunter Mt in NY, I thought those little black dots were the tops of trees sticking out of the snow. I’d never seen “rocks” on a ski slope before that. And what was that “ice” stuff? And lift lines? Sheesh.
I didn’t have such a dramatic experience as you…but in high school I visited Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows at Lake Tahoe and I had never seen so much snow in my life…the snowbanks were gigantic! Coming back to the upper Midwest was a real downer after that trip. Bummer.
I think you would love it. The only problem can be if it’s not steep enough you might come to a complete stop at times. The most I’ve ever skied in is 3 feet of powder and it’s like everything has a cushion and is in slow motion. To me it feels a lot more comfortable than when it’s hard pack, fast and icy.
Big resorts like that have ski patrol that blow (with dynamite) the sketchy areas and won’t open the areas that are too risky. If you ski in the main areas, you’re fine. A place like that with that much snow----you don’t need to go scavenging into bad areas for freshies.
I need to stop drooling now.
Correction, BIG ASS SNOWBOARD!!! Wish we got that kind of snow, we don’t even have dust yet 
That was a huge dumping but since that…nuthin…
Indeed, Baker got that 1000" dumping back in 2004 I believe. Even here in Idaho, on the other side of the Cascades, it is not uncommon for storms to roll in out here and dump 80 inches in a 5 day stretch. Two years ago at Christmas in Sun Valley, it snowed everyday, about 8-12 inches on the mountain non-stop. It was awesome. Did virtually the same last year, too.
I grew up in PA, and spent my youth in the Poconos and Vermont. Post-college, my friends and I had a house share in Waitsfield, VT. I skied Sugarbush North and Mad River just about every weekend for 3-4 years. Ahhh, ice, rocks, stumps, the obstacle course that is East Coast skiing.
BTW, the snow on Baker tends to be very wet, hence the name Cascade Cement. It is not the lightest greatest snow around. For that, there is only one place, and it’s called ALTA!
Sometimes they ski into June… I think they have the Slush Cup at that time.
Where in Idaho are you? I’ve been to Coeur D’Alene and have seen some of the mountains in that area. I imagine to get the real heavy snow you have to get in to the Sawtooth Range (is that the correct name?) They just issued a snow advisory for my area…3-5"!!! I’m about ready to have a heart attack…kind of sad that 3 inches gets me this excited.
I skied a bunch over the last couple of weeks out here in the cascades. We’ve had a great start to the season. We had face shots all day on Thanksgiving at Crystal Mt. where we “only” got 6 feet from the same storm. Baker sometimes has too much snow. They often have to dig out the lifts. They already had one suffocation death from a backcountry skier and had several last year. I ski with an avalung on big days now.
Backcountry skiing is great cross training for triathlon. Skinning uphill 6000 feet in a day with untracked powder as your reward will give your legs a good working over.
I am about 400 miles south of CDA in Boise. Totally different weather patterns up there than down here. And CDA has small mtns. compared to down here. The peaks in the Sawtooths, Sun Valley (Pioneer, Boulder, White Cloud ranges) top out in the 11,000-12,000 foot range. Northern ID has peaks are not nearly that high.
If you XC ski race, the Boulder Mtn Tour up in Sun Valley, is probably the most beautiful scenic ski course in the US. Pristine wilderness, soaring granite peaks, well over 10,000 feet.
there’s a group out in the cascades call Turns all year which keeps records on consectutive months of backcountry skiing. I think the leader has 156 months in a row.
I was up in Tahoe a few years ago for New Year during an El Nino winter. One big storm had just passed through and we had 3 days of clear blue skies and waist deep powder…best skiiing I’d ever seen.
The day we were leaving our friends who we were sharing the Northstar condo with left at 5 am for their long drive back to Idaho and we decided to hit the road about 10 am. Between their departure and ours about 2 feet of snow fell and it just kept coming. We couldn’t even make it down to Truckee and had to turn around and go back to the condo. The road was packed with people walking back up to the resort because they couldn’t move their cars. God bless the Jeep Wrangler!
That one storm ended up dumping over 11 feet of snow and we were “stuck” for 2 more days…3 if you count the extra day of skiiing we crammed in before finally getting on the road. Our friends in Idaho were very jealous