This reminds me when I fell out of a ski lift at Heavenly Valley at Tahoe. I'd been talking to my lift chair mate, and casually tangling my skis down to knock snow off the top of fir trees we were passing over, when one of my skis caught in a tree and pulled me out of the chair.dconrad000 wrote:dconrad000 wrote:500 inches and counting: Snow has clobbered California ski resorts this winter
Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 2/23/2017
The snow amounts in California’s Sierra Nevada mountain range this winter are difficult to wrap your head around. In many cases topping 500 inches, they are some of the highest totals in memory.
At the Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows resort, seven feet fell in just the past week. The snow is so high that it buried chairlifts and ski patrol shacks.
The prolific snowfall has resulted from phenomena known as atmospheric rivers, which are essentially rivers in the sky that carry vast amounts of moisture. Like a fire hose, they have bombarded central and northern California, repeatedly.
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I had the presence of mind, anyway, to tell my lift mate: "See you later". Fell about 10 feet intp fairly soft snow and on the flats of my skis. II think I left him with his mouth open in surprise.