Big Mountain Telemark Skier

First Snow of the Season Revs up my Pre-season Stoke

With the skiing dreams really showing up in the last few months I have been so anxious to ski that I was thinking about driving all the way to the Breanu Sand Dunes to go sand skiing. When I awoke this morning to find snow pouring out of the clouds, I could hardly contain my excitement. I ran around the house waking up everyone, making sure that I wasn’t dreaming. After running outside and throwing some snowballs for Bailey, my dog, I went onto the Sun Valley website to check out the real time status of the snow on the mountain cams and the snow depth indicator read 9in! Update: it now reads 12inches one hour later

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I hope that this fresh blanket is a tell tale sign of a big winter to come. I have a bet with some friends going on about how many inches we’re going to get here in Sun Valley. How many inches do you think we are going to get here in Sun Valley? Leave a comment on this post, and if you’re the closest at the end of the year you will win the prize!

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This is also the first snow the New Gondola has experienced

5 Responses

  1. Daniel Syms

    286.9″

    October 4, 2009 at 11:47 am

  2. legs

    278.5″

    TD, you’re going down…

    October 4, 2009 at 10:00 am

  3. TD

    278.4″

    October 4, 2009 at 9:55 am

  4. 345″ and Happy Birthday Josh!

    October 4, 2009 at 9:30 am

  5. miles fink-debray

    325″

    October 4, 2009 at 9:25 am