El Knee No

El Nino seems to strike it's unsavory sword into the heart of my skiing world.
My aging knees.
This bouncing Superball weather pattern: Snows at low temps, warms up and rains on sweet snowpack, then dives back to cold temps with a little spittle of snow, clear and cold for seemingly extended periods of time, then repeat cycle.
This equates to wind effected new snow on blue coral reef, followed by a short window of good powder, chased immediately by wet heavy powder, (OR INSERT high NW winds making plywood powder on shaded N terrain), then a dose of rain soaked slurpee, and back to frozen shapes and ice/suncrust/windslab.
Careful analysis of these conditions equate to a consistent pain in the knees.
Still they are grateful for the opportunity, but they just don't like being the 6th man and would rather be a starter.

In my recollection, something to look forward to is that El Nino seasons finish strong in the later season with ample doses of powder.

I hope you're right.
Ski conditions are so suck at the moment I've actually gone to work rather than ski... and that's bad. :'(

Here's hoping it's better in Idaho this week, but yeah... it's been rough.

No, no, noooo, I don't like this much. It was painful just reading your snowpack analysis!

I hope you're right.
Ski conditions are so suck at the moment I've actually gone to work rather than ski... and that's bad. :'(

That is bad  ,
I've hoped into the sea kayak since it's more entertaining than boilerplate and death crust (35 deg and wet   ).  Oh well.... Spring is on the way!!

I even pressure washed the old Lavro drift boat and went plugging for steelhead. My knees couldn't take another day of icy groomers with a side of frozen potatoes. Caught a nice hatchery fish on the Snoqualmie!