2008, by powderjunky

After about a week of sunshine, the snow finally came! We received over 20 inches in the last couple of days, and to our delight, the new snow did not bring the usual crowds.

The morning skiing was great. The powder was a little thicker than normal, but hopefully the warmth helped the new accumulation to bond with the sun crust layer underneath. However, on sunny aspects the top layer is sitting on a text book sliding surface and could be problematic down the road.

Good snow and good times

As the day rolled on, the clouds rolled out and the sun began to scorch the mountains. The lower elevation powder turned into really super-duper heavy-as-lead mashed potatoes. The sunny aspects at the upper elevations also took a beating.

On our way out for our last run of the day we ran into a real nice guy who turned out to be Chris Davenport, the guy who skied Colorado's fourteeners in a year. He was fun to talk with and real down to earth.

More fun skiing in the Jackson Hole backcountry.

The forecast has some more snow in the short range radar so keep those fingers crossed!

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Fall Line wrote on 02/28/08 at 4:42:42 pm pst:

Back East we call that wet cement and unfortunately, it's much more common here. Fortunately, Avy danger is almost none-existent and rarely fatal.

Enjoy that new twenty, but remain wary of crusty layer underneath. The bonds between weak and stiff layers are always significantly more unstable than homogeneous layers of snowfall.

We did have one fatality on Mt Washington this year by an ice climber, the first since 2002. read the story here: http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?articleID= 1df7c3e8-de1f-4e13-9f3b-06aee3933cf7