cold front

Better late than never, our weather pattern has been changing over the last couple of weeks.  Here are Alta's most recent/running snow totals:

 

The snow from this past weekend (February 24 and 25) was, by all reports, very light and fluffy because temperatures had plummeted.  It was 1F first thing Saturday morning up on the mountain, with gusty winds all day; Sunday started out cold (3F) but warmed up a little as the clouds moved off.  With the winds, however, wind chill temperatures were in the -20s.  And, full confession here, neither H nor I went skiing. 

We have been suffering from LSA (low snowpack anxiety), as all northern Utah skiers have been this year.  In addition, however, there has been a tinge of malaise where we've been so disillusioned with the skiing that even when it improves, we can't muster the enthusiasm to go when conditions are bad (like wind chill in the -20s, for example). I'm guessing we'll snap out of it soon: current forecast models are indicating a monster storm approaching, with the possibility for 30" in the Cottonwood canyons, if the storm doesn't dump all its snow in the Sierra Nevadas first.