Hmmm not too happy at the moment. Meadows is supposed to open in 9 days, the 17th November was meant to be the start of my season. It now looks like I will be travelling for work that day and I will miss it. Never mind as the 18th will be good enough :)

The reeeaall down side is, in order to open they need 20" of packed snow. That means more then that needs to fall and they need to get the grooming machines out to work it . . .

Although we have had flash flooding here in Portland (and most of Oregon) this week there has been little snow. The reason is a phenomena called the "Pineapple express". This is a warm wet front that comes in from the Pacific dumping warm tropical rain. I.e NOT SNOW!

On the plus side the weather is turning colder. Between now and Firday night the accumilated snow at meadows will be:

Top lift 15"
Mid-station 13.5"
Main lodge 11.2"

What does this mean? Well the 18th as an opening day is looking optimistic, but not impossible. . . .