According to my co-worker Meisha, yesterday was a great day to be up on the mountain as it snowed about 8 inches over the course of the day. This morning, I was hoping that it might have snowed a bunch more overnight, but instead we saw only a few more flakes. That extra skiff of snow did make for some fun riding when I took a quick run up in McConkey's to snap the couple of photos you see above. I can personally vouch that the snow conditions are really getting quite good after the past several storms. To see for yourself check out more pix from this season in our Park City Mountain Resort Flickr photostream.
Speaking of snow, I'd like to shed some light on the process that we use in our snow reporting. We update our 24 hour snow total daily at 5 am, and if it's snowing, our 12 hour total once at 5pm - this snowfall information can be found on our snow report page (we will be putting up a description of this process on that page shortly). If you want to see more snow plot information, visit these Summit and Jupiter snow stake data pages (the text option is really sweet for those of you with web access on your phones). Bear in mind that these readings are posted via technologies that are not infallible and the snow readings can be affected by any number of factors including wind, settling, sun and more. If neither of those are updating, you can also try the Thaynes Canyon SNOTEL site located in near our Summit stake, this station reports snow depth and temperature but precipitation only reported as snow water equivalent.
PS If it was a blog reader that yelled out "thanks" to the patrollers ski cutting at the top of Crescent Lift this morning, I'd like to say "Thank You!" to you for reading!
Chapel Hillian thank you for your positive comment on www.skistats.com/slopes_detail.asp?resort=Park%20City.
Posted by: Frank | December 29, 2008 at 02:55 PM
Thanks for the opinions! I have to buy the beer..oh well, at least I get to partake too. I have a feeling we're going to be perusing and discussing the skistats.com site over some pints...
Eric replies:
Have fun with it Chapel and cheers!
Posted by: Chapel Hillian | December 25, 2008 at 03:15 PM
Hey Eric!
Its Bryton again. Were finally in PC and have been enjoying the great conditions! I have one more question though. Is the Jupiter peak going to open anytime soon??
Thankyou.
-Bryton
Eric replies:
Great to have you in town! To my understanding, Jupiter lift is next on the list of openings and opening it is dependent upon snow safety and how much slides once our team is able to get up and do control work...I certainly hope that we can get it open soon, but I've heard it may take another storm or two due to the unstable layer of snow that's sitting near the bottom of our snow pack right now.
Posted by: Bryton | December 25, 2008 at 10:15 AM
This may be outside your normal blog topic, but I would love your opinion on this less-weightier topic. Besides, the loser in our group buys the beer. At PCMR, what, in your opinion, is the most-difficult-technically green? Least-difficult-blue run? Most-difficult-blue? Least-difficult-black? Note, I'm not asking the hardest black. Some people know no fear.
Eric replies:
Chapel, this isn't outside of our normal topics and I like the idea of being responsible for someone buying beer! :-) In my mind the green is 1/2 load (because it doesn't get groomed often), blue is Sunnyside (because of the length) and the black Dynamite (because you can access just the bottom half from Mel's Alley). A neat resource for slope pitch at Ski Resorts can be found at http://www.skistats.com.
Posted by: Chapel Hillian | December 24, 2008 at 09:24 PM
we actually just got home from PC yesterday afternoon.. we were up there all last week boarding(for the first time).. we got there on the 16th and there was lots of fresh snow! took some lessons as it was our first time (thanks to our great instructors - lucien, greg and kyle) we had a great time and learned a lot! just wanted to say that you guys put on a good show out there, seriously every single person we dealt with from the people that got our rentals, at the ticket counters, booking the lessons, at the lifts scanning tickets and helping you on/off to the instructors -- all top notch, really friendly and a pleasure to deal with. our expectations were not let down once on this vacation - you guys do a great job and i just wanted to say thanks for doing what you do!! and we will be back next year!
Eric replies:
Thank you so much Chris, see you next year!
Posted by: chris | December 23, 2008 at 10:06 PM