Rabbit Ears 182" ???

[bushy]

Oh Paul, you make me horny when you talk that way!

I bet you say that about all the snotel psychics

 

[bushy]

Dammit Q! You just put an image in my mind that frankly scares the Hell outta me.

Pretty sure he's just happy to see the snow finally falling

Especially since I've kinda let myself go lately bwahahahhahaha

 

[Boston Racing]

If you find the last time the snow depth levels were reasonable, you'll see that it was about 24" and the corresponding "Year to Date Precipitation" was 5.8" Now look at today and you'll see the YTD precipitation is 7.3 inches. You can figure on about 12" of powder per 1" of precip, that equates to about 18 inches of snow on top of the 24" we had before the gauge took a crap. So, 24 + 18 = 42". But then you have to account for settling, which tends to yield around 6" of settled snow per foot of powder. This can vary quite a bit, depending on the density of the snow. Wet, thick snow will settle much less than dry powder. The column "Snow water equivalent" is also useful. It tends to follow the YTD precip, but the difference between the two being the amount that has melted since the records started (October 1st). I'd figure on an average of 36" average depth around Buff Pass. Or something like that..

I concur with your hypotheses. My calibrated gauge showed similar results

 

[trackvs2wheels]

That is a photoshop of your sleds on top of last years snow up there...

There is no snow at RE...it's all up in WY...

 

[CO 2.0]

Tower Snotel finally showing numbers. You were about dead on there Bushy!

Buddy rode up top yesterday, and said it was DEEP. I concur with the vid I saw.

 

[SNOMOHO]

183" on Rabbit Ears....we wish!

No, its incorrect....I would have to agree with 24+...its coming. Has anyone out there ridden the Ears recently,,,would love a report.
Im couchbound nursing a hip injury, so wont be ridin for a few weeks...but dying to know what its like up there???

 

[SNOMOHO]

183" on Rabbit Ears....we wish!

No, its incorrect....I would have to agree with 24+...its coming. Has anyone out there ridden the Ears recently,,,would love a report.
Im couchbound nursing a hip injury, so wont be ridin for a few weeks...but dying to know what its like up there???

 

[bushy]

Kinda surprised it's down to 31". I wish they posted wind speed/direction data. That might help explain where the snow went. Since the gauge was at 24", Buff got 2" of YTD Precip. Me thinks the winds been at work. That's OK, should find double deep snow on the east side where all that wind blown snow settles down. Go find them powder stashes! I'm still a ways out from riding. So much to do and not enough time. I'll keep telling myself it's not deep enough yet! lol

 

[Dogmeat]

If my sled starts up without any hiccups tomorrow I'm riding saturday I know that much.

ALong with the other eleventy billion folks who read this thread lol.

 

[bushy]

Snow is down to 28" on Buff now. Better hurry before it's all gone! lol I gotta get some hi fax on before I ride, at a minimum. Last years dismal snow burned them down to about 1/16" left.

Big snows are going to hit SW. why would anyone go to RE?

 

[trinitypowder]

Went tuning with VOHK at the Ears yesterday.................today I ordered two new a arms and gotta send the EXIT shock to Zbros to get fixed It is VERY SKETCHY up there.

 

[skibreeze]

Went tuning with VOHK at the Ears yesterday.................today I ordered two new a arms and gotta send the EXIT shock to Zbros to get fixed It is VERY SKETCHY up there.

Do you have the 36" arms? I bent one of mine today and noticed that they don't have the same gusset that they added to the stock width arms last year.

 

[PJ-Hunter]

Went tuning with VOHK at the Ears yesterday.................today I ordered two new a arms and gotta send the EXIT shock to Zbros to get fixed It is VERY SKETCHY up there.

Good to know. Wait for a couple more snowfalls. Maybe this one will pan out.

 

[tudizzle]

looks horrible

 

[trinitypowder]

I have the 40" arms. There was maybe 36" in the deep meadows. If you got out of the "bobsled" trail from the other sleds trying to be creative, you were rewarded if a smack in the bars. Twice I surfed off to the side of the trail that they groom and pounded rocks, stumps, and even a Hobbit or twoIt will make for a pretty good base once the trees unload and another 2' of fresh shows up

 

[Dogmeat]

There is no base at all right now .... quite a bit of carnage of up there today it seemed.

Looked like a couple tunnels, lots of a-arms, couple running boards, etc...

I hope it dumps this week, if it does next weekend will be a lot better, but still not where I think we'd all like to see it.

60" base c'mon!

 

[trinitypowder]

Agreed

 

[tudizzle]

its getting worse

 

[ManBearPig]

Going to find out for myself tomorrow. Hopefully they're grooming because I need to break in my new scratchers.

 

[idareyou]

No grooming up there as of friday. Found some nice t stakes about 6" out of the snow. Still a few rocks and stumps to deal with also. Forest service was up there marking where snowmobilers can't go.