Sun Dog

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A sun dog kind of day

Posted at 5:07 pm
Sun dog over Sterling
Sun dog seen from the summit of Madonna
Winter Wonderland
Two people on Upper FIS seen from Midway

Another beautiful sunny day here at Smuggs with temperatures in the 20’s and 30’s. Our groomers pushed out the snowmaking whales on Lower Chilcoot and that opened today. We also opened McPherson’s, Playground, and Dan’s Ford. Our snowmakers were busy last night on Birch Run and Curley’s Cutback. Tomorrow we plan to have top to bottom skiing and riding on all 3 mountains with 7 lifts operating, including the Madonna I Lift and the Sterling T-Bar. We have 49 trails open with terrain for all ability levels. Surface conditions are packed powder and machine groomed with average base depths of 14 to 50 inches. 29 trails will be groomed for tomorrow for a grand total of 126 acres of freshly groomed terrain. Currently, it is 27 degrees at the summit of Sterling with winds of 0 to 5 mph. Tomorrow’s forecast is calling for partly sunny skies with a high of 35 degrees.

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Another beautiful day

Posted at 4:40 pm
Summit of Sterling
Sun dog caused by the refraction of sunlight by ice crystals in the atmosphere
Snow Sport University Snowboard Instructor Justin Wright doing a demonstration.
“Hey Justin like this”
Tony in the Harvey Wesson Memorial Race Series

We received 4 inches of new snow in the past 24 hours and 16 inches in the past 3 days! The conditions are great and we have more snow in the forecast for the weekend. Tomorrow we plan to have top to bottom skiing and riding on all 3 mountains with 7 lifts operating, including the Madonna I lift. We now have 43 trails open with terrain for all ability levels. Surface conditions are packed powder and powder with average base depths of 12 to 50 inches. We are presently making snow on Practice Slope, McPherson’s, Playground, and Upper FIS from Goat Path down to Times Square. Currently, it is sunny and -8 degrees at the summit of Sterling. Tomorrow’s forecast is calling for cloudy skies with snow in the afternoon and 1 to 2 inches of accumulation possible with a high of 22 degrees. Tomorrow night’s forecast is 5 to 9 inches of snow. Sunday’s forecast is also snow with another 2 to 4 inches.