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PostMon Feb 22, 2021 2:29 pm 
Paradise topped 200" today, and Baker is not that far behind - perhaps tomorrow. Stevens - where it is raining - has a lot of snow at 4700'. Washington Pass, Snoqualmie, and White Pass also have a lot of snow. Considering it is still mid-February with peak depths typically April 1st to 15th, pretty impressive. I wonder how much snow there is at 6500-7000'. Mission had six hours with wind gusts over 100 today, topping at 118; White Pass had over 100 mph gusts for 4 straight hours earlier.

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PostMon Feb 22, 2021 2:38 pm 
Harts Pass - 6500’ - has 118” of snow, with 45.5” of water(!). That’s 135% of normal.... https://www.nwrfc.noaa.gov/snow/snowplot.cgi?HRPW1

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PostMon Feb 22, 2021 4:20 pm 
Due to rain, winds, and temps >40 overnight, I lost 2.5 feet of snowpack in the last 24 hours. I am at 3000 ft, milepost 10 up the Icicle

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PostTue Feb 23, 2021 6:47 am 
Where did it go to down the Icicle?

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PostTue Feb 23, 2021 7:59 am 
Once the water hits Icicle Creek it runs into the Wenatchee river, then into the Columbia river, then into the Pacific Ocean.

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PostTue Feb 23, 2021 8:13 am 
Downhill wrote:
Due to rain, winds, and temps >40 overnight, I lost 2.5 feet of snowpack in the last 24 hours. I am at 3000 ft, milepost 10 up the Icicle
That is not surprising as the low elevation east side snowpacks were low density, rotten snow.

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PostTue Feb 23, 2021 8:36 am 
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PostTue Feb 23, 2021 9:02 am 
The good thing, IMO, is that we're getting the snow mid-winter instead of late March/April like some of the recent years. The temp changes are also more what I think of as 'normal' and help consolidate the base into something more stable and lasting for spring skiing and summer mountaineering and reduced fire hazard in August.

If not now, when?
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PostTue Feb 23, 2021 10:34 am 
Had the pleasure of driving from Nason Creek to Bellingham via Snoqualmie Pass yesterday. Haven't driven through rain like that in a long, long time. Lots of snow above 3500'-400' obviously but what a dismal winter for low elevation snowpack much less for maintaining sanity here in town. Anyone else sick of rain yet?

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PostTue Feb 23, 2021 10:49 am 
Wait until we get the week long tease of sun then another 3 weeks of rain like usual.

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PostTue Feb 23, 2021 12:46 pm 
I'm ready for it Timber cool.gif

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PostTue Feb 23, 2021 7:19 pm 
YESSS! Spring and summer skiing looks freakin great. Today at Crystal it was total hero packed powder.

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