A repeat of 2005!

Depending on who you ask, the weather pattern does not look good. 6,000-7,000 foot snow levels with lots of rain for next week. Looks like this may be a very low snowfall year! How many monthly streaks will succumb to this year's El Nino?

Things I'm currently concerned about:

• surface hoar
• freezing rain (aka "ball bearings")
• shallow snowpack (possibility of depth hoar)

I hate pineapples. But I hate them less when they destroy weak layers.

'04/'05 wasn't very good, but the spring finished out pretty well. Big storms at the end of March and through the first part of April had me skiing around Mission Ridge until June. It is what it is, as "they" say.

Yeah, there was snow above 5500-6000 ft that season if you wanted to walk.

There is no reason for the streak to end due to the current weather pattern. There is skiing to be had with less effort than in October. Heck if you have $30 you don't even have to hike for turns. Crystal is open.

crystalmountainresort.com/limited-operations-opening-details/

1977 was a worse el-nino than 2005 and and I had some great skiing that year, in places that normally one could never reach mid-winter, since FS roads were drivable to much higher elevations.

So, I just posted in this thread again and it seems that it deleted Randy's previous post. WTF?