While the West Coast is getting hammered with snow the East has been pretty quiet. Regardless, it’s Sunday and we needed some exercise, so we packed up the car and headed north to Stowe. Stowe opens on Wednesday so they’ve been hard at work getting the snow guns going and putting everything in place for opening day, also known as the White Ribbon Of Death. We had a nice little tour up to the summit and decided on descending the the man-made snow instead of attempting the grassy and rocky natural stuff. I was a little disappointed that there wasn’t any new snow but the man made stuff is good enough for November.
I’m not going into depth on this one, but it looks like it could be a real banger for the entire West Coast.. Our buddy Chase is living in Mammoth and working at the resort, not only is he a skier but he’s also a UNH – Recreation Management Alumni. Enjoy Chase!
Team Rider Casey Denning hiked up to Bridger Bowl yesterday and took a few photos, at least 2 more feet of snow is expected to fall between now and Monday night.
Weather UPDATE
On another note, Stowe’s webcam shows some pretty sweet coverage from last night. Reports said that the night before (Wednesday) Stowe recieved 3″ total up top. It looks as though there’s at least an inch to the base but as we’ve already seen this season, there could be much more at the mid-point and significantly more up top. It’s almost 11am as I type and the mountain is still socked in pretty good….with another inch or two predicted at the base we’ll be planning on taking a trip up there this weekend — still deciding on which day.
*Stay tuned for some developments on the Thanksgiving weekend storm.
Stowe webcam shot from today…
Pretty entertaining.
Exerpt from the NOAA forecast at Squaw for this weekend….
“ONE FINAL NOTE…THE OVERALL PATTERN IS KNOWN TO PRODUCE SOME OF
THE HIGHEST SNOWFALL TOTALS ON RECORD IN THE SIERRA AND WESTERN
NEVADA. SO AS THE EVENT UNFOLDS…LIQUID FORECAST AMOUNTS MAY
SLOWLY INCREASE AND THUS ANY OF THE TOTALS ABOVE COULD END UP
BEING HIGHER“.
This is really a culmination of hard work and the brilliance of these two riders. The amount of work that went into this video is unbelievable, each shot must have taken hours and hours. Enjoy The Desert Spines, and expect to see more out of these two, they’re both strongly influenced by backcountry touring and splitboards etc. Warning : There is no lift served skiing in this video
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