It's Groomed to Trinity

Well after lots of snow last weekend and not able to get very far because of the fluffy powdered snow just under 7' then rains for 2 days helped to settle it down to just above 4' pf pillowy snow. Ths has caused some anxiety on my part because my truck was still 13 miles from Fish Lake but after the groomers coming out Thur night and grooming I finally headed out yesterday morning, planning to get my truck out and Jim to Steven's Pass for work, he was a couple of days late since we couldn't get out. Well it was an ordeal to say the least but my truck isn't buried for tne next 6 months but is free again so we can go to more places than we could without it.
I apologize to all the sledders that come upon my ruts but it couldn't be helped and it won't happen again not by me anyway. There is snow on the mountains and the road is groomed so I will pepobably be seeing many sledders soon, which will take care of the quietness.
We found our Paradise, hope you find yours too.

Got what we wanted, SNOW

The past week plus a few days we've had some very cold temperatures but didn't see much snow around. Then we got 9" and went to move the Blazer and there wasn't any snow down where it was parked so I left it there even stayed in Leavenworth to see how much snow we got in the latest storm, well Leavenworth got 1.5-2" we only had about 1" but it did arrive just in time for Leavenworth to be on national TV GMA was there at 4am as were about 1500 locals. On Nov 30 we had about 20" total snow, then on Sat afternoon it started snowing and by yesterday morning we had about 3.5' of snow and it was 17 degrees so the snow was very dry powder and continued to snow all day, the dam froze up with all of the slush in the water from the cold snow so we had to rely on the furnace for warmth which isn't a problem. Since we had no power I couldn't see just how much snow we had gotten overnight 31" of more powder with no bottom to it. It took almost an hour just to make trails to the powerhouse this morning and then I almost couldn't get the Ranger out of the powerhouse because of the very deep snow. I then spent the next 1.5 hours trying to go 150' but it was more trouble than it was worth and then the rains showed up and it rained all day.


This is how last year started out only in reverse the rains came first 14.5" in under 50 hours then lots of very dry cold snow 4.5' in 6 days. We've been looking for this for a while but sure hadn't figured on getting this much this weekend. Well after this rain it should help to have a nice base to build upon. The pictures of the gauge are from 12/2 & 12/3 the bottom photo showsalmost 7' just in case you can't tell. So far it has packed the snow about 16" so far and it hasn't stopped yet we'll see what happens tomorrow. At least we got warm enough for the dam to clear the ice especially with the water flowing in the creek now. Definitely have to watch for slides in the next day or two, could be interesting. Peace & Bear are having fun in the snow but today found it very difficult to get around except for the tracks I made to the powerhouse. With all the rain lots of snow is falling of the roofs of the houses so when Bear is outside I have to really keep him away from the buidings otherwise he could get buried in the falling snow.
We found our Paradise, hope you find yours too.