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Awesome!
Is lookout mountain the hill between campus and Bill Macdonald parkway with a lookout at the summit? I spent a couple years in Bham in the 80's and it never snowed, but I went up and down that hill a whole lot. Would have been super awesome to ski it!

Although it never snowed while I was there, I do remember a 30 day stretch when it rained every day and I-5 shut down for flooding. If it ever gets cold there, it could be DEEP!

Made it to North Bend in the noon convoy. But we snuck in two touring laps of Central. The snow is creaming up and getting heavy. There were some wet loose sluffs and roller balls starting when we left. Monday was certainly “the day” of best snow quality and very fun laps all around.

Avy danger is certainly high at the moment. Hopefully with the less cold temps things will settle out quickly. Take it slow if you head out touring. (You will be forced to anyway with the excruciatin...

3 Days, 4 tours, 14 runs until it went bad with the warming / heavy wet snow Monday. Hope a few pic's attach but it snowed almost the entire time I was out so very flat light....mostly.

Kamtron, agreed!  Crazy Deep.  Toured up Silver Fir Tuesday am.  If not for the groom path, never would have made it to the top of Outback.  Transitioned there, and other than straight-lining Outback, it was too deep to move.  Took the groom back down, which was great.  Luckily caught the 3:00 pm caravan back down, since the power was out.

Even better urban turns were had on Feb 11.  Surprisingly, I even saw someone using climbing skins to go uphill for a run that was max 150 vert feet.  Most people hiked up.  I think waxless was the ideal equipment.

We went up smithbrook road sunday. Same stuff. 4-6" of light fluff on hard ice crust. I', sure today would have been very different after 12" of new.

I rarely even think about the City, but this thread both reminds me the big snow I experienced during my time in Edmonds in the early 90's (lawn chair at my driveway to watch the mayhem on the road), and even makes me a little jealous to miss out on this amazing urban comaraderie!

1000 feet of city skiing is a legitimate ski day! Nice work and great photos.

That unbreakable crust sounds nasty. I saw a photo of a friend going uphill to ski powder and he had boot crampons on his feet!

Aha!  I wondered who traveled by ski, I saw your tracks on the bike path.  Your planks were definitely fatter than any XC skiers.  I was the dumba$$ who thought it would be ok to pedal my bike in.  Tomorrow I'm using my AT setup to get to work.  Thanks for breaking trail.

Amazing action shots - 20" in the driveway...to start!  That's the ticket to a great day.

Did you think you were dreaming when you looked out the window this morning?

Absolutely incredible!
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Wow...ski dream come true...in your back yard no less :)

If a full moon preavais, ski from the top of Schmitz park to Alki on the trail, then the road at night. If it's as good as 1969, the silver glow around you is off the hook and no botttom outs, headlight un-necessary. It may ski end to end with  a tad more snow?.

It's beyond rare. Just flipped my 65th a few days ago and told the wife, things could get epic around here. Then had the dream and whooaah, are ya kidding me? Never in my life again most likely but havin a blast outta my backyard. secret tip: Eastbrook Drive / road end / look for tracks

Wow mike! What a score!

I like your short ski buddy who also likes powder.😉

West Seattle has the max VF in the city limits: 514' el. at High Point at Myrtle St Reservoir to the sea level. I've wanted to do this since someone posted in 2012.  Here's a route that went good today: RWGPS
It could be even better if you take 39th a block south to SW Orchard, traverse up a half block on California, and head west on SW Othello.
I did a loop from Alki to High Point to Lowman Beach and back to Alk...

Later in the day, with colder temperatures, the snow quality improved significantly. However, the neighborhood wasn't as quiet anymore. I was surprised how many steep streets (even those under "SNOW CLOSURE") were worn down by tire tracks. And the others chosen for sledding areas turned quite icy. But there were a few pockets of soft fresh snow. Yay, local skiing!

Nice to hear from other areas. Where were the best runs? I'm looking forward to the next round!

I'm glad to see an 'Urban Touring' report, as I'm confident that many in our ski community continue to take advantage of turns close to home. I live in Edmonds, and I, too, took the time to trek a 1/2 mile from home at midnight last evening, to partake of Main Street. In 2011 or 2012, the last time we had a big, long-term snowfall, I attempted to ski this city street from its summit. Even though the street was 'Closed' by the Street Dept, I was stopped by a police o...

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Me too

Not much more detail. 

On our first time up the skin track, there was a spot between some trees that was shoveled out with a shovel left in the area.  Unusual sight, we thought either (A) memorial of some sort or (B) someone left it.  (A) seemed possible, but unknown to us, (B) seemed very unlikely.  On our second (or thir...

Impressive. I think most go CW and buy a single ride ticket to take the lifts up Blackcomb to start. Then you can ski down Singing Pass trail. You then have the option of skiing Fissile Peak at the end, which is glorious. Downside is you have to wait for the lifts to open, preventing an early start. I was with a snowboarder and Singing Pass sucks on a snowboard. So we opted to hike all the way back to Flute bowl where you can ski down the groomers after the lifts are closed. Also, going CW there...

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Sunday we met someone in their "fort" who was refusing entry and making people go around. there might have been a joke, but we missed it. curious if this is normal and if/where I can get my own fort.

If you only knew the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow...

awesome!