Man, this is the winter without end and I am loving it. This week was of epic proportions! Right now, Oregon and Washington are set up for "The Perfect Storm". We have a low pressure system up in British Columbia that is pulling cold arctic air down on the bacl side of the low and a tropical low off the California coast that is pushing warm moist air up and the two are coliding over the top of us. We are having snow that is sticking at the beach on the Oregon coast, snow in downtown Portland and Mt. Hoos has gotten slammed. Over the last 2 days of riding, I have seen nearly 3 feet of fresh pow, and it is a light, dry pow more typical of our January snow with temperatures in the upper teens and low twenties.

Both days at Mt. Hood Meadows, I was riding Heather Canyon and Private Reserve in waist deep drifts. Dropping off Twighlight bowl into Heather Canyon which is about a 45 degree pitch, you get blinded by the wall of pow blowing in your face from the board. The tree lines were out of this world. The forecast calls for snow off and on all this week and Timberline Lodge has a 228 inch base with a season total of 680 inches! Meadows is within 6 inches of those figures. Here are some pics from night riding at Timberline last night. What a way to end their night skiing season!

Highway 26 in Sandy, Or (this is about 500 feet elevation)


Highway 20 up at Government Camp, Or


Timberline parking lot


Bottom of Molly`s Express at Timberline


Tree run abover Molly`s at Timberline


Molly`s Run at Timberline with 2 feet of fresh, ungroomed pow!


Dumping over an inch an hour all night


Can`t wait to see what the Snow Gods have in store for us next week!



Current Timberline Lodge webcam image...note this is 4 story lodge!

The Dome at Mt Baker has a 220" base with 75" of new Pow since the 20th of March...with about 660" so far this season.

28th

Wolf, you ever head up to Stevens Pass or Baker?