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Biggest 24 hour dump you've ever skied?

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~~JEFF~~
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for me it was 48inches in 24 hours last december at hood. INSANE
hopefully this isn't a repost.
Sep 6 2009 12:38PM
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Deletedtoday
Posts: 4060 - Karma: 398
36 hours of straight skiing, stevens pass hope on the slopes
Sep 6 2009 12:41PM
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skodeo7
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Mammoth last year in Feb, something like 40". Never skied anything like it.
Sep 6 2009 12:47PM
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Funnel
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Definitely over 24".  I'm not sure on the depth though.
Sep 6 2009 12:57PM
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ElbridgeGerry
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We had a blizzard that in 5 hours dropped 20 inches of snow..and then completely cleared up. Blizzard lasted from 3 am to 8 am..so we had sick powder. I live on the EC btw.
Sep 6 2009 1:00PM
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B-runge
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definetly over 2 feet

i forget how much it was but it was last jan-feb
Sep 6 2009 1:06PM
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niels043
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valentines day in vt 07. it was about 24 hrs of snowfall maybe a few more and it left 36"ish on killington, but less than a week later we got another 20" in probably 24 hrs or so.
Sep 6 2009 1:51PM
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NESblowjob
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was anybody in colorado during the christmas 06 07 5 foot of snow
Sep 6 2009 1:52PM
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~~JEFF~~
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sounds like some fun time i remember last year at hood there was no snow til dec. 15, then it just dumped 150 inches within 2 weeks! it was crazy but then it didnt snow for like a month hahah.
Sep 6 2009 1:55PM
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*WonderBread*
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mine was 49" last winter on christmasbreak on my trip to kirkwood, crazy insane chest deep.
Sep 6 2009 2:01PM
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SHampson
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Think it was 32" at bluewood.  Got it twice, once it was heavy snow, the other time light :)
Sep 6 2009 2:23PM
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JibbaTheHutt
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ive been unfortunate with pow with the most probably only being six inches but my brother went with school they got 2  1/2 foot in 2days he said it was the best thing he has ever ridden
Sep 6 2009 2:26PM
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Binbag
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Tignes, this year, 1m in 24hrs, crazy, crazy stuff
Sep 6 2009 2:29PM
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Where-am-I
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2.5 ft
Sep 6 2009 2:32PM
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Blandct
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winter park thanksgiving 2002 not sure how much snow it was but it was a hefty amount
Sep 6 2009 2:33PM
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Ben.
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somewhere between 36-48" in steamboat like 5 years ago.
Sep 6 2009 2:37PM
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mynilla
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tits deep!
Sep 6 2009 2:48PM
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dwags222
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this christmas at jackson, can't remember how much but somewhere around 3-4 feet i think.  so deep it wasn't even fun cause they wouldn't open the steeper stuff and you would just crawl down the slope.  plus i waited in line for 5 hours.  whatevah.
Sep 6 2009 2:58PM
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Blurst
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like a foot max....
Sep 6 2009 3:02PM
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3mania
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If you can remember stuff like that...you probably haven't been skiing enough powder.
Sep 6 2009 3:03PM
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3mania
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this day was pretty good...but i don't remember how many inchesClick for larger image
Sep 6 2009 3:07PM
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Caveman.
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Most people here hate it to.
Sep 6 2009 3:10PM
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andreweckels
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4 feet in 24 hours. baker. i win.
Sep 6 2009 3:18PM
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iFail
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haha but wasn't that cement?  Baker isn't always super wet, but normally seems to be.

Oh and for me about 36, but the drifts were over double that.  There is a large distorted horse shoeish shaped bowl facing about E-NE a bit out of the boundary, and we got 36 inches of light light pow overnight, with winds pushing all of it up and over the bowl, into a more treed in  smaller somewhat gully shaped bowl on the other side of the mountain, which was the only place that didn't get hit by wind, so the snow from all other faces seemed to stay in there.  Chest deep, with VW sized pillows that exploded into dry dust as you landed on them.

Sep 6 2009 3:37PM
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mackcamp
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2 feet of fresh snow in 24 hours at Loveland....IN NOVEMBER!!!
Sep 6 2009 3:38PM
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Jacuse
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pretty good!?!? Never skied anything that deep in my life.
Sep 6 2009 3:50PM
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Logey.
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well i was at salt lake when they had the 10 feet in 10 days for spring break :) and i skied a 40incher at snowbirt and a 36 at alta then they opened a key hole from alta to snowbird after the ten days and i stuck my arm in with my pole and i didnt touch the bottom and im guessing that was about 8 feet :))
Sep 6 2009 4:22PM
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mr_shifty
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mt bachelor couple years back. Around february, and last year at bachelor there were some pretty epic powder days. i think it was like 30in or something but it had been dumping all week
Sep 6 2009 4:26PM
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caylorswift
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lived and worked at Baker for three years: too many to count.
Sep 6 2009 4:31PM
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.newman.
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my biggest dump was like a foot
Sep 6 2009 5:13PM
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ECski
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150 inches in 4 days in Utah like 5 years back
Sep 6 2009 5:30PM
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C0LE
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like 4 years ago we had like 2 feet overnight i think. but last year over spring break we got 20+ every night for 8 days straight. best spring skiing everrr
Sep 6 2009 5:33PM
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Zoro
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2 seasons ago i took a week long trip to vail.  it snowed just about everyday that whole week.  since i live in PA i had only skied powder once before.  it had to be the best days of my life
Sep 6 2009 5:36PM
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El_Barto.
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well over 40 inches. this march at bachy we had some pretty deep probably close to 40 but january 08 bachelor had 179 inches and i had several days over 40 that month. some days at skibowl have been pretty gnarly also
Sep 6 2009 5:47PM
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sarahskis
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36 in two days, jay peak vermont.   Such a great mountain

Sep 6 2009 5:57PM
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mtsteez03
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71 inches in 24 hours, at bridger bowl in bozeman montana, it was at the time the world record they couldnt even open on the first day they had to wait till the next day it was super fun  there was one guy that fell and died gnarly day tho
Sep 6 2009 6:06PM
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Vino
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this. when was your 36 inch ?

i never skied 36 but it was something like 20-30.. its deep for the east..

Sep 6 2009 6:11PM
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Caveman.
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I remember that storm, I think we got like 40 or 50" at Showdown and a few feet in town. We even had a few inbounds slides at Showdown... that never happens during the season.
Sep 6 2009 6:11PM
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TRIZZLE
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Wolf Creek, CO....
I think we got something like 80 inches in 48 hrs, and over 150inches that week.
Nutty.
Sep 6 2009 6:13PM
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dwags222
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i'm moving to bozeman this winter and am pretty psyched to ski bridger.  probably not as good as jackson hole but it will still be sick.
Sep 6 2009 6:14PM
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mtsteez03
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fuck bridger they never get dumps like that anymore and if they do you sit in there lift line for hours go to bigsky if you wana ride pow
Sep 6 2009 6:19PM
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dwags222
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is it really that bad?  big sky is twice as far and twice as expensive. 
Sep 6 2009 6:24PM
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mtsteez03
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and twice as big and bad, bridger is fun but unless they got good snow it sucks dude in my opinion, and if you wana ride any park at all theres is an absolute joke id rather jib in my backyard
Sep 6 2009 6:27PM
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eheath
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Biggest 24 hour was like probably 30ish, my deepest was 70ish over three days, so epic.
Sep 6 2009 6:54PM
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Caveman.
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Ya, Bridger is no park rats mountain.
Sep 6 2009 6:56PM
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Thenowhereman42
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Last season it snowed like 3 feet in a day in mid-December.  It snowed to such a low altitude that Palmdale (which is in the middle of a desert) got two feet of snow.  It was ridiculous, we got snowed in and I had to take the train in the morning to get to work because the roads were down for like two days.  We drove up there without snow tires too and got stuck 3 times.  Seriously the only legit powder day I think I've ever seen at that resort, in 15 years.  And it had already snowed 2 feet the day before.

But then it didn't snow for about a month and it was like 70 degrees at the mountain and it all melted and the rest of the season was meh except for a seriously epic dump over spring break at Mammoth, biggest dump I've ever seen at Mammoth in spring for sure.
Sep 6 2009 7:04PM
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dwags222
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thanks for the update.  i guess i'll have to consider big sky after all.  i'm not much of a park rat, used to be when i lived in michigan but i went to college in indiana so i am really outta the park scene.  hoping to get back into it, so maybe i'll have to commit to big sky.  hmmm.  or maybe i'll just stick w/ big mountain and try and do the ocassional bc booter.  hmmm.  sorry for the thread jack . . . i suck.
Sep 6 2009 7:09PM
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ski-swagga
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2 ft.
Sep 6 2009 7:13PM
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Bangor
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That was definitely the most epic pow day in recent EC history. I remember it was kind of patchy where it fell, but I was skiing at Jiminy Peak that day which is just south of VT in Mass, we got well over 40" in less than a day. The roads really weren't that bad (I drive a Subaru though so I'm biased) but they offered any employees on or off duty that were there for the day cots in the hotel if we couldn't get out......... So we skiied ALL day straight 8am - 10pm 2 days in a row. Fucking incredible.



Oh and the best part was the girl I was dating at the time. I'd told her the previous summer the day we started dating, that if it snows more than a foot, and we had anything planned, that it was canceled......... She was NOT happy that I finally invoked that clause on Valentines day...... I canceled dinner & sex to go skiing........ We didn't talk for over a week.
Sep 6 2009 7:21PM
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C-Burg
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not sure the individual day totals but over 4 days at wolf creek in skied 70 inches of fresh
Sep 6 2009 7:25PM
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