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Whistler, Baker and anywhere nearby is getting hammered tonight and over the next few days, storm is in the order of meters, or 50+ inches for the americans. On top of Baker's 60" base, its going to be midwinter by the weekend! Stoked! Get some, but play it safe out there. Blackcomb opens Thursday, that could be quite an event.

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.ph ... tType=text

http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/pacnorthwest.php

For true weather nerds, you can follow the story graphically here:

http://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/nsa/index.ht ... =Northwest

I can't say as I share your optimism for the weekend, NOAA and snow-forecast are both showing a pretty big pineapple express with high freezing levels and lots of rain. The next few days should be pretty good up in Whistler or higher elevations of the cascades though. Hopefully we'll get a net gain in snow before it cools back down.

Well check the snow stakes in the morning. Baker ski area is in for another 20" pow day, that would be 2 since they opened, last friday. Though Friday skied more like 30"+.

Yeah it's piling up nicely, and everywhere but Baker and Crystal are still below freezing today so hopefully it will stay cool enough to stay as snow pretty much everywhere over 4-5k feet. It might be PNW cement but that'll be good for covering up the rocks. The forecasts for the weekend have cooled down a bit, NOAA is now just calling it a "quasi-pineapple express" for Sat night/Sunday. It should stay cold enough at Whistler to be all pow all week.

I see what you mean by the weekend being a bit pineapply. And certainly not ideal weather for a tour. But as you mention Whistler looks like it will fair pretty well from this

Wednesday
Cloudy. Snow tapering off to lighter snow flurries.
Freezing level: 800 m
High: -4. Low: -7. Winds: SW 20-40 kph Accumulations: 5-10 cm

Thursday
Cloudy. increasing snow in the afternoon.
Freezing level: 800 m
High: -5. Low: -10. Winds: SW 40-55+ kph PM hours. Accumulations: 3-6 cm

Friday
Mostly cloudy. Flurries.
Freezing level: in the village
High: -5. Low: -11. Winds: SSE 15-25 Accumulations: 1-3 cm

Saturday
Cloudy. Heavy wet snow.
Freezing level: Rise to 1300
High: 0. Low: -5. Winds: S 40-70 kph Accumulations: 20-30 cm

Sunday
Cloudy. Heavy snow.
Freezing level: Drop to 700
High: 0. Low: -5. Winds: W 50-80 kph Accumulations: 30-50 cm

As much as i love you guys...

I hate you guys...

Sincerely,

Colorado (20" base)

More then 4.5" of precipitation (mostly wet snow) has fallen on the Mt. Baker ski resort since Monday. That is just a huge amount! The white water kayakers must be rejoicing. Sunny skies in Vancouver right now, the calm before the next storm.

High freezing levels and crap snow around Whistler.

No need to come around here

Right...
Temp at
Peak -9°C / 15°F
Alpine -8°C / 18°F
Village 0°C / 32°F

and a metre in the past week. Still no lift-accessed alpine open yet though?

Wishing I was up there right now. I'm not sure I trust their forecast for the weekend though, snow-forecast is saying 2000m freezing level Sat. night but wb.com is saying only up to 1000m. If anywhere stays cool it will be them though.

Ha yeah..Well Whistler has done a pretty good job keeping me away. I want to ride there, but its just so damn much money. Over 100 dollars with tax, plus pay parking now.

But who really pays $100 at the ticket window?

I purchased a mine edge card early and got a 5 day edge card for $360 taxes included, plus 1 early season day, plus 2 days of summer gondola which we made a nice backpacking trip out of. Plus 1 have 2 - 2 for 1's from Warren Miller (gf and I). So my math says:

8 days of lifts for $350+100 (2 - 2 for 1 days) = $450/8 = $56.25 a day taxes in - which is cheaper a day at Cypress an a few pennies more then a day at Baker.

That and a backcountry ticket on WB (accessing world class touring terrain) is $42+tax.

Nobody pays $97 at the ticket window, even 7/11 tix for WB can be had for less then $80 w/tax.

Anyways, no need for thread drift, but I also wanted to point out that snow-forecast.com is the least reliable weather site on the planet. Run by an IT department in the UK that simply extrapolates local weather data, no real observations, just generic assumptions that make their forecasts. For instance they never seem to get inversions right, and often call for meters of snow when only feet end up falling. Snow-forecast.com is sketchy and only to be used when no other info is available. Which isn't to say that most forecasts are much better but at least they are run by real people (not algorithms) making real forecasts based on current information. Just an FYI.

Yup your right about that stuff, although I don't recall getting 2 2 for 1 passes with my edge card last year

Just saying, its a pricey place for somebody to drop in for a ride, and that parking just makes it a little much. Ill still end up riding there a few times likely. I have not yet used there 42 dollar backcountry tick except for my AST1 course. Was pretty fun so I will have to do that this season.

Anyways, didn't mean to drift the thread with my rants, looks like the Duffey is getting pounded good right now!


Ill back you up with snowforecast, man I have planned some powder days around that stupid site and got burned almost every time.

To clarify, the 2 - 2 for 1's (1 for me, 1 for my gf, but add up to two half price days on WB) was from the Warren Miller movie premiere, they do it every year, and we go, if only for the 2 for 1's. I find Warren miller movies to be like 1 long commercial sometimes.

And yes, the South Coast inland avy was reporting today that the Duff got 80cm since Sunday and the Coquihalla 130cm since Monday!!! If only the storms would take Saturday off so we can get out there in non-gale force blizzard conditions. Sunday is Grey Cup;) Go Lions!