8" IN THE LAST 24 HOURS
A few inches yesterday, a few inches overnight and we are looking at another 8" in the last 24 hours across the resort. That brings us to nearly two feet in the last few days, and it's still coming down, and expected to keep on coming through tomorrow. Steady Westerly winds topped out at about 30mph last night, sure to have made some sizeable drifts, and buffed out a lot of our upper mountain terrain. I'd expect Marx and Lenin to have caught a lot of snow, and the East Face of Challenger to be totally reset. There's just so much snow there's no going wrong out there today, it's all been falling so evenly for Big Sky standards, following the wind is only going to take you to deeper and deeper stashes.
WIND AND TEMPS: Today's temps should range between 9°F at the summit, and 27°F at the base with mid mountain temps in the upper teens, and winds are expected to continue out of the West, gusting to 30mph at the summit. All under cloudy snowy skies, with snow on and off all day.
Dress warm as it's going to be similar to yesterday out there, and that breeze is still a bit chilly. It seems we are going to get all the juice we can squeeze out of this storm, and most of the great skiing it's going to provide is going to be under the cover of thick graybird skies. No matter as skiing by brail in Big Sky is the best way to ski. Expect Patrol to be hard at work out there once again this morning, and if wind keeps up and viz stays low, they're going to have their work cut out for them. But nonetheless they and everybody else working this mountain have done a wonderful job opening a massive amount of terrain in the midst of a chaotic winter wonderland.
As always, remember to stay safe, and have fun out there.
