After some sun yesterday, the snow started again in the afternoon. A little less than 20 cm by the morning--heavier than what we've had recently, but it's still snow! The base keeps building, and more resorts keep on opening.

Oh, that powder snow is here. Really light, fluffy, powder snow--not what you'd expect in December, but really nice.

Just as that snow level is going down, we have some fresh falling in Myoko. As I've siad a few times, things are often pretty marginal until right around Christmas here, so things are still looking good.

A nicer day today and a little colder, although the snow is melting pretty quickly in the sun. The weather should start to turn around later today and into the week, so hopefully we'll start building the base up again.

If the first day of skiing turned out to be much better than it seemed at first (if a bit warm through the day), today is a good day to...well, not not go skiing--we'd never say that--but to dress warmly. Or dryly.

I'm glad I didn't report first thing in the morning as I would have had to write things like, "An inauspicious start to the season" (even though I'm totally not superstitious) because things are looking, well, OK.

The season is about to start; not much new on the snow front, but there's a good solid base to get things going on.

Nothing much happened snow-wise yesterday, so I kinda jumped a day.... We haven't been hit by the huge snows that have fallen further northeast, but that's OK, too (no avalanches, no highway closures around here yet).

Countdown to Opening

Countdown to Opening: Snow Day One

Countdown to Opening: Snow Day One

A week before the official opening, and the early morning rain has turned into some seriously nice snow.

A big start to December: snow all through the day Saturday, for a total of 61cm at base level.

Another attempted start to the snow season, with 8cm here at base level. It looks like it will continue through the day this time, though, with the weather reports predicting upwards of 30cm.