Best day of the year at (for me) @ Alpental. Feb 25,2012

Awesome. 27 at the bottom, 22 at the top, with at least 20", more like 30" in the BC. Crowds were bad, but man was it good.
Skied with "Mark" who saved my bacon when I lost a ski in Elevator. We skied it twice. Once down Snake Dance.
See the movie. May there be more.

Huge Day in Cascades and 4 die

Sunday, February 19. It had been dumping. 31' in 48 hrs. It was getting so deep that the pass closed for 11 hours to clean up the roads. As both Alpental and Crystal Mt. had huge crowds that closed the areas and filled the parking lots, 1 boarder on Denny Mtn and 3 skiers at Stephens got caught in slides and died.
I didn't get there until 10;30 and it hadn't been open for all that long, but it was huge crowds of about 45 minutes on chair 2. It was awesome but too crowded and it was impossible, but Dan Ogborn and i took it for what it was worth. Too bad that the 2 parties got caught.

February 18, 2012. Finally snowing again.

Finally, after 3 weeks, it's back. The report is as follows:

Late Afternoon: Snow. High near 25. Southwest wind around 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. Total daytime snow accumulation of 6 to 10 inches possible.
Tonight: Snow showers. Low around 19. West wind between 13 and 17 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New snow accumulation of 3 to 7 inches possible.
Sunday: Snow showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 22. West wind between 6 and 16 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

Jane is 4 days post op now and we are hoping she is getting on top of her med's.