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[poloxskier]

Nice pow day at Keystone. Waist deep in places! It was a great day to get the morning off!

[Lift Kid]

We finally received some decent snow! We are now expecting a white Christmas.

Vail Resorts reported the Keystone got 12" today and last night. You guys are really lucky. I'll be in Breck on the 28th with plans to ski on the 29th!

[skierdude9450]

And the winner is...Eldora with 2 feet!

[poloxskier]

Lift Kid, on Dec 21 2006, 01:13 PM, said:

We finally received some decent snow! We are now expecting a white Christmas.

Vail Resorts reported the Keystone got 12" today and last night. You guys are really lucky. I'll be in Breck on the 28th with plans to ski on the 29th!

I'm not sure where the measurement is taken but during the day yesterday we got at least 8" at keystone on the front and North Peak had much more than 12" that was untracked this morning, but thats most likely due to the wind building it up.

[garthd]

I was unimpressed with the snow we got at Breck. I got up early, and was all excited for powder, but found very little. Maybe 5-6 inches overnight on Wednesday. Oh well...better luck next time.

[Peter]

Crystal was sweet yesterday, lots of new snow and sun. North Backcountry opened mid day and was amazing. Then South opened at 2:30 and Silver King was worth the hike. I have a quick question, I happened to be on the first chair up on Forest Queen and noticed there was a huge amount of grease spraying from the sheaves. It was not the best experience having a red jacket turn into a red and brown one! Isn't the lift supposed to be greased well in advance so all the excess isn't coming off on guests?

[Lift Kid]

poloxskier, on Dec 21 2006, 07:19 PM, said:

I'm not sure where the measurement is taken but during the day yesterday we got at least 8" at keystone on the front and North Peak had much more than 12" that was untracked this morning, but thats most likely due to the wind building it up.

Well as we all know, Vail Resorts likes to exaggerate. I think they added a few inches to that. They may have done the wind build area though.

[WBSKI]

I was up at Cypress this morning, a couple centimetres of new snow, unfortunately there was crud and ice underneath. I havent skied Cypress much though and I really liked it up there.

[Kicking Horse]

Lift Kid, on Dec 21 2006, 03:13 PM, said:

We finally received some decent snow! We are now expecting a white Christmas.

Vail Resorts reported the Keystone got 12" today and last night. You guys are really lucky. I'll be in Breck on the 28th with plans to ski on the 29th!

Will you happen to be skiing Beaver Creek at all?

[Lift Dinosaur]

garthd, on Dec 22 2006, 10:44 AM, said:

I was unimpressed with the snow we got at Breck. I got up early, and was all excited for powder, but found very little. Maybe 5-6 inches overnight on Wednesday. Oh well...better luck next time.

The thing you have to remember is when the Front Range gets hammered, its an upslope condition with the low - located in the panhandle of OK - spinning the sub-tropical moisture from the Gulfo de Mexico counter-clockwise. This packs the moisture BACK against the Contintal Divide, not over it.
I was working at Copper Dec. 25th, 1982. Denver was buried the night before with 24" and was paralyzed. I called my folks in SoCal and they asked "Are you OK?" "Yea, I just got home from work" "How did you get to work, we saw where Denver had 24" of snow" "Yea, that's Denver - we got 7" and it was great skiing!"
"Merry Christmas"

Dino

[Callao]

I thought there would be more snow at The Canyons today, but there was only two inches. No problem. I still put in 25,000 feet of vert. And we'll be having little storms every other day for the next week.

[poloxskier]

Lift Kid, on Dec 22 2006, 12:44 PM, said:

Well as we all know, Vail Resorts likes to exaggerate. I think they added a few inches to that. They may have done the wind build area though.

VR usualy does not exaggerate snowfall, in fact my post that you were quoting was in reference to it being under represented at Keystone.

[LiftTech]

Skier, on Dec 22 2006, 01:02 PM, said:

Crystal was sweet yesterday, lots of new snow and sun. North Backcountry opened mid day and was amazing. Then South opened at 2:30 and Silver King was worth the hike. I have a quick question, I happened to be on the first chair up on Forest Queen and noticed there was a huge amount of grease spraying from the sheaves. It was not the best experience having a red jacket turn into a red and brown one! Isn't the lift supposed to be greased well in advance so all the excess isn't coming off on guests?

Grease doesn’t “spray” from towers; you may get a glob but no spray.

Ok, this topic was started on September 12, and we’re still waiting???????????
I’m starting to not believe you any more.

[Lift Kid]

Kicking Horse, on Dec 22 2006, 06:48 PM, said:

Will you happen to be skiing Beaver Creek at all?

No. We can't make it there this year.

[Lift Kid]

poloxskier, on Dec 23 2006, 06:54 PM, said:

VR usualy does not exaggerate snowfall, in fact my post that you were quoting was in reference to it being under represented at Keystone.

I meant it was not true natural snow. The snow that they measured was from wind.

[poloxskier]

Lift Kid, on Dec 24 2006, 07:51 AM, said:

I meant it was not true natural snow. The snow that they measured was from wind.

It in fact was natural snow. I had to shovel it so that we could open our race hill. Yes, the snow on North Peak was deeper than the 12" because it had blow in but the natual fallen snow was 8" deep between 9AM and 3PM, and much more came during the night. The 12" was NOT due to the wind, if anything the natural snow was more and was blown away from where it is measured. I am not trying to turn this into a pissing contest, I'm sorry but you are incorrect.

This post has been edited by poloxskier: 24 December 2006 - 10:40 AM

[Callao]

Oh, I think winter is here. Officially. Happy wintertime.

[Ontariodude]

Easy for u to say. We have no snow and im beginning to worry

Will T. (ontariodude)

[Lift Kid]

poloxskier, on Dec 24 2006, 12:39 PM, said:

It in fact was natural snow. I had to shovel it so that we could open our race hill. Yes, the snow on North Peak was deeper than the 12" because it had blow in but the natual fallen snow was 8" deep between 9AM and 3PM, and much more came during the night. The 12" was NOT due to the wind, if anything the natural snow was more and was blown away from where it is measured. I am not trying to turn this into a pissing contest, I'm sorry but you are incorrect.

That's ok. I will accept defeat.

[Emax]

Ok, this topic was started on September 12, and we’re still waiting???????????

Well actually, one could say this in June - and be correct. Like Romance in Southern Utah, it's all relative.