Snow in the PNW 13/14

[Scotsman50]

Xtal website says Northway will start spinning on Saturday. They also say that it will be windy Saturday early AM too...

No..it says it will open Sunday.

[bakerpow]

as soon as it starts snowing in the nw im off to nelson. cool works for me. it will be nice to be able to ski pow after 10 am for a bit.

[pipedream]

they ARE opening Alpental on Sunday. It WILL be a shitshow on the mtn. For that matter, it will be a jongshow everywhere in the Cascades on Sunday

[bgrayvy]

Considering a Monday sick day at Xtal in hopes of something being left over.

[steveski]

Toured over to snow lake today at snoqualmie. The rain/snice at the parking lot turned to snow pretty quickly. Good skin track out to source lake basin. Great coverage, actually winter at proper elevation. Did a few laps on protected, treed slopes down to snow lake. Heavy pow but still soft and fun. Snowing hard all day up there. Despite high avalanche forecast we did not see any major instability. Some pinwheeling from tracks, and a few small sloughs off of the cliffs above the basin were it.

[XavierD]

Hopeing the padded seats open soon for y'all.
Stevens was indeed fun on Thursday, looking forward to seeing the results of the weekend.

[shroom]

^believe I'll be makin turns sunday; keep an eye out for me in the big city crowd.

[XavierD]

Might be up Sunday too.

Let me know

[kix515]

Glad to here things are looking good up North. Flying into Bellingham on Sunday night. Have a rental car and a hotel the first night but nothing beyond that. Where would you guys suggest skiing? We've really just been considering Baker with maybe a day at Stevens. Anything special with this storm/season/etc to consider? Keep the reports coming.

[Norseman]

Blustery night in B lot... camper was rocking sans wifey. Summit station shows max gusts of 110mph. Rained almost an inch, too. Hope the temps drop as predicted.

Pretty burly storm for much of the West.

Edit to add:

Patrol dispatch says entire upper mountain shut down today.

[NWSkier]

Upper mountain at crystal is shut down for wind and the typical weekend crowd is packed on forest queen.

[NWSkier]

Sorry Norseman, didn't see you had already posted it. Does anybody want to grab a couple laps tomorrow? Hopefully it'll be open

[wicked_sick]

How was Baker today?

[Phill]

Raining at Stevens right now

[MagnificentUnicorn]

Raining at Stevens right now

This is a joke, right? Telemetry,WSDOT and SP ski area all reporting snow.

[counterfeitfake]

It was nuking snow when we left at 4ish. Good day today! Dumped all day long, wind had 7th shut down and Southern Cross/DD most of the day but they opened for a little bit in the afternoon.

[the_flying_v]

This is a joke, right? Telemetry,WSDOT and SP ski area all reporting snow.

Has to be. We left around 7 and still dumping (heavy) snow. No rain.

On a side note, Rico's take out is the fucking slam.

[Bandit Man]

Looks like rain/snow mix at Stevens and Snoq now, hope it does not get to shitty. Hope the freezing levels drop again as the front moves onshore, wet snow is better then rain.

Hold on...Tyestick still skis? I haven't seen that guy on the mountain in a few years. Let's make some turns this year!

[Phill]

Was about to leave when I saw sky turn. 3rd chair. Welcome to the moon.

[whyturn]

^^^ lucky bastards

[Phill]

Highway two is a JONG show of epic proportions. Should have gotten up earlier. Where did all these idiots come from?

[Phill]

Dear jongs, the middle off the road is NOT A FUCKING CHAIN UP AREA!! Sincerely, the rest of us.

[ole2planker]

In the middle of the road? Boarders?

[2FUNKY]

In the middle of the road? Boarders?

Heh

54321

[phatty]

Snoqualmie just sent an email to employees that they are opening for full operations on Monday (day and night). It is officially on!