The view out my windows this morning:
Fresh snow, beautiful sunny day, only 52 days til I am blissfully unemployed for another six months 
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which resort are you in?
Weāre off to Fernie in 2 weeks and Iāve been told and it appears they have had a dire season year to date, though it has snowed this week.
Donāt suppose you could guarantee some March powder could you?
Wow, gorgeous! Where are you? Iām leaving tomorrow for Colorado for a week. I hope to have many days like thisā¦
I am at Big White Ski Resort.
We have had the worst snow season in the eleven years I have been here. There is still a pretty decent base, 170 cm according to the marketing department (really around 150). That is enough to cover all the rocks, but the epic powder days have been few and far between.
We have had a decent week, with a couple of dumps in the 10-15 cm range.
As for Fernie, I have heard they are suffering worse than us. They tend to lose their base faster when it gets sunny than we do. Donāt believe what the websites say, pick up the phone and call a hillside restaurant and ask whoever answers the phone what the conditions are like. You will get a much more honest answer. I get phone calls like that all the time when we get what marketing calls ālimited visibilityā. The same guy always calls and asks if I can see the telephone post in the first pic.
On the plus side, we have had more sunny days this year than ever. The days of being stuck in a white out for a month seem to have disappeared. I donāt know whether that is a long term thing or just a short term cycle, but I am loving the sunshine.
Too bad that Craig isnāt doing his FAR reports anymore (far.redtree.com). Those were the best. I actually worked at the company where he made the $ that allowed him to āretireā and move to the mountain. The most common talk around the water-cooler was ādid you read Craigās report this morning?ā. Oddly enough, I also have the same degree from the same school ā¦ but am still quite far from being able to quit my day job and take up as a full-time snowboarder. The best I can do is say that in 2007 I did make it out to Fernie on a day he had as a 1 in 10year powder snowfall.
Generally speaking, your odds of good snow are best at Fernie from mid-January to the end of February. Full coverage doesnāt always happen until after New Yearās and it gets soft sometime in March. You can have a great day of spring-like conditions followed by sub-zero temperatures overnight leaving lumpy ice-snow for the following day. Although I have no idea what the conditions are like now, odds are better at Sunshine and Louise in March.
Iām now on the coast and Iāve all but written off the season. Although it had no problem burying our yard in Nanaimo, the epic snow rumoured at Mt. Washington never materialized.
I was up in Tahoe a couple of weekends ago and we were getting 2 inches an hour of fine pure powderā¦and Sugarbowl was empty! on a holiday weekend. Had to cut it short at about 3pm when it really closed in, but we had deep powder even on some of the groomed runs by the end of the day.
this weekend promises to be big too.
Wow. I was just hnking of the term ābluebird dayā the other moring on the way to work. Magincal. Wear sunscreen and enjoy!