Hey Z..missed you at the Luau...Ain't got your Lear Jet yet? ..The amount of water content in the Valleys snow would prob be more than Park city...It is a lush, foresty area..I Luv it!..If we didn't get another Flake the 5 year Ave would be 182.8 ..We are talkin well over 200 inches at 4770 MPC.. 220? Prove me wrong ..I got pics to prove how that MTN holds the snow & clouds longer than Weiss Knob(Canaan area)...Will post later. Yeh, My predict of 130 inches was passed a while ago I based that predict on the fact that the greatest snow comeback in Canaans history after a top 10 bad start was about 130..so I was thinking positive..should have went for more but I started to listen to the Mash ....Enjoy your Trip out West!

Yeh,Yeh..I Hear ya! Sounds like you could get addicted to that experience like Crack...I'd finally get my 1st powder Dump Experience & then spend the rest of my life & all my savings chasing it down again....Just like buying Crack, the Quality just ain't always "All That" a person can get beat..like I did when I spent a week at Vail/BC & it would have happened again this year if i would have bit on the Utah Pipe!.During that week I spent there, I could have been going down a slightly less Pitch with maybe only knee deep action at MPC & then Crashing at My House just up the street! You can chase it Brother...It ain't for everyone....Bring on Almost heaven so us homefolk can kick back & enjoy our beloved Alpps..One day a few years from now you just might appreciate an area like MPC!

That's all skiing is, it's a crack addiction, which is why- just like crack- it's important to start 'em young. Last winter I took maybe a dozen perfect turns through some powder in the bowls above The Canyons. These 12 turns were so memorable that I swore that I would wait 28 years to take 12 turns like that again. It's pretty amazing when you can justify almost three decades of skiing in about 20 seconds, but that's what good powder skiing does for ya.

So if skiing is like crack, what kind of addiction can this be called? Only one thing my friends: powdah.

"What are you, a crack addict?"

"Nah, I'm a POWDAH addict!"

JohnL there are rumors floating of a potential biggie this weekend in the Rockies, but I'm betting it stays a rumor. If it doesn't, well, you'll know where to find me...

Fishnski, believe it or not you can get a fix for the addiction on the east coast/mid-atlantic and out west. If anything skiing is more like a good bourbon, scotch, wine or beer: There are lots of different variations and many of them are surprisingly good.

Crack is a derivitive of powder cocaine...just a little more intense & a whole lot more expensive! SOOoo Get your Crack in Utah & your POWDER at MPC!...its all good Wait a minute..what am I saying i hope you all get some face shots before the winter is done...would love to hear it

thats what I'm trying to say Madmonk...If it ain't challenging enough for you here in the midatlantic...drink some good bourbon

cmon now, all this hostility and here i was thinking that Mr Fishnski was just a peaceful deadhead hippy freak like myself. Peace and Powder to the people!

Come on Crunch Master...you needed to post that WV Powder pick on this thread Where's the back up? Deadhead? Nahh I'm just a Freak...too busy to be a hippy. Ted Nugent-Van halen..with David Lee Roth...Led Zep..aerosmith...walk this way & let me show you how to walk this Dog!...Harder the rock the better...But it has to have some beat...throw in some James Brown...Cuzzz I'm Just an AVERAGE WHITE BOY ..........Anyway you don't diss on a bad ass WV Mtn without a "Comment"...Fair play Brother!...Peace in the Middle East....The Mid Atlantic coastal zone of the good ole US OF A....screw the other muthas!

Capn..there are a whole lot of folks eating up your posts..myself included! I'm going to start some snow dances for your Utah trip. Looks like a few inches for the next couple of days..more the higher up you go. Then a lull...spring like conditions....enjoy all the wide open & long verticle runs...then hopefully you can end your trip(you there a week?) with a couple days of freshies!....I caught some freshies today......Some great eye candy at Wrightsville beach..been awhile ..More in the F-cast for this weekend(near 80 both days)

Crunchy,

If you want to buy a discount lift ticket to Alta and\or Powder Mountain (below discount face value), send me a PM.

Crunchy,

PM with contact info sent.

just thought i would post an update-

as of 7PM this evening the Valley is sitting at 179.7"!!!

thats:
14 for april
34 for march
59 for february
55 for january
11 for december
3 for november
4 for october

something is wrong when a 4 day total in April amounts to more snow than the whole of december!

with this mornings tally, the 5 year ave for Canaan is at 186 inches....& its still snowing lightly on this frosty April 9th ...... just think what it will be with that late april 30 inch dump...it could happen