We got over 7 ft of snow this week, 72 inches of it came in 48 hours.  Tuesday night was the biggest night... rode wednesday with a friend and it was the deepest powder I've ever ridden and probably the most intense day on a snowboard ever.... no time for pictures that day.  Snowed a couple more inches wed. night, these are from Thursday.  Everybody went back to work and there was nobody on the mountain.  I felt like I was in a dream... blue skies, limitless powder and no lift lines.  I hope to ride for another 40 years, but I don't see how this day could ever be topped.  So here are a few pictures... no action shots or anything, but you get the idea of what kind of day it was.











This is normally the most crowded run on the mountain




Where my friend and I had to climb out the previous day... thought we could make it to the steeper part but thought wrong




At my place on Tuesday night, about 6500 ft. There was no snow on the ground before this due to heavy rain on Monday.

WOW, fully submerged tree trunks and I get a little queasy...in a good way.  Not many people believe me when I say we get bottomless days, but this may be a good example.  Was the powder so fluffy you just basically just dropped to the bottom?... or was is firm enough to be able to skim the top layer?

[Edited by snurfer on 3/8/2009 at 4:24 PM]

ugh I need to stop being lazy and post my pictures of the powder day we had two fridays ago, This last thursday and friday was real good again though, Had another foot or so.

 

[Edited by kiwisnowman on 3/8/2009 at 3:54 PM]

didnt make it to Heavenly, I had to go to Kirkwood...ah its a hard choice and all.

Posted by Agent-G
didnt make it to Heavenly, I had to go to Kirkwood...ah its a hard choice and all.

Yeah because Kirkwood is sooooo flat...



I bet Kookwood fucking rawked.

kirkwood vs heavenly thats a tough call mate

Jesus, are they having to dig out the bottom and top of the lifts yet?  Ridiculous amount of snow coming down out there.  Seems like every 3-4 years the Pacific moisture maker decides to just barf on Cali for a couple of months.

sick pics agent. Is that someone using the safety bar on the chair in the 1st pic? didnt see that 2 often. I came home just before this storm cycle so know how lean it was getting. Sorry didnt make it up the hill with u while i was in town.

not bad pics for a phone. 

yeah, things have been strange a little further south - long hot spells followed by larger than average, extra fluffy dumps (from the perspective of a 3 year snowboarding career). 

[Edited by Agent-G on 3/10/2009 at 5:16 PM]

I was at Heavenly that day.. epic to say the least.. drank all night Tuesday in the hot tub.. watching the 48" pile up.. it was one of the best nights I've had in a long time. It was deep.. almost too deep! I had a noob with me so I had to take it easy... Gun Barrel was fun at the end of the day..

Man, I'm jealous. Everytime I goto snow.com to check the snow reports heavenly is always reporting good snow while here in CO it just sucks. We haven't hardly got any snowfall this March and it's slushville up on the hill. I was hoping for at least a few Powder days this March. Oh well, I did get some decent fresh at Vail a few weeks back. I'd like to try Heavenly some time since I'm pretty sure my pass is good for there. Looks like a fun mountain.

And we've had plenty of powder days and snowfall up until March.  Cali was having a pretty bad season up until this storm hit.  California riders were overdue for this.