Special Steamboat snow update!
Steamboat surpasses 100 inches of champagne powder snow for the month of december
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Special Steamboat snow update!
It is happening again in Steamboat Springs...the snow! The past two weeks in Steamboat has been magical. Each morning I have woken up with the same sense of wonder, thinking that I have come to live in a snow globe. Not a cheap plastic one on the shelf of some gift shop, but a grand glass sphere that encompasses our entire little town and world class ski mountain. The snow is not so much falling as it is hovering, swirling, and floating - filling the air, refracting the light, and eventually settling on the ground.
While skiing before Christmas it was easy to say that the season was starting to take shape. The snow was falling consistently, but our daily totals were smaller than desired; two inches here, 4 inches there, an occasional 6 or 8 inch day. We were still skiing through some bushes and thicket, and had to be very careful of stumps and fallen timber in the trees. Well, we had a Christmas storm that changed all that.
On Christmas morning Steamboat reported that 11 new inches had fallen over night, but it did not end there…it was still snowing. By 1:00 p.m. the total had grown to 19", and the snow continued to come. Those bushes are disappearing quickly. The skiing was so good on Christmas Day that people will remember it for years to come.
"Hey, do you recall Christmas Day 2007."
"Ya, I sure do...that was the Christmas where wei didn't open the presents under the tree until late in the afternoon. We were too busy bursting through the gift Santa had dropped on our Mountain."
While the sun shines this morning, the forecast calls for more snow tonight, and the 10 day has snow in 6 of them.
If you are planning a ski trip for this season, make it Steamboat. You will not regret it…nobody ever does.
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STEAMBOAT SURPASSES 100 INCHES OF CHAMPAGNE POWDER SNOW FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, CO-December 26, 2007-With a recent series of storms dropping more than 4 feet of snow in the past week, the Steamboat Ski Resort has surpassed 100 inches of Champagne Powder snow in the month of the December for just the 6th time in the past 29 years.
"December has been a Champagne Powder snow generating machine and with five days still to go, we're closing in on a top-three month in terms of total snowfall," said Chris Diamond, president and chief operating officer for the Steamboat Ski & Resort Corporation. "Steamboat is enjoying some of the best snow in the Rocky Mountains, with one of the largest mid-mountain bases of any major Colorado destination resort."
The resort is currently in an active storm cycle that has yielded over 2 feet of new snow in the past 72-hours. During the past seven days, the resort has piled up a whooping 49 inches (4.08 ft) of fresh snow at mid-mountain and is reporting a 50-inch base at both the mid-mountain and summit locations on powder conditions. Steamboat is currently offering powderhounds 2,820 acres (95% of the mountain), 147 trails, 17 lifts and 3,668 vertical feet of skiing/riding enjoyment.
Read the full press release from the Steamboat Ski Corporation
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