What's the weather like there?

The best Web site for checking out PNW mountain weather is on Turns-All-Year. This is a site dedicated to backcountry skiing, and the best source of local snow knowledge around. It's well worth a look at some of the trip reports and photo galleries. You can also see Web cams from spots we talk about all the time.

Why not?

Though it's a bit late in the ski season to start something like this, with the amount of snow we've received this year, the season might not end, so why not?

Amy and I will update this space as frequently as possible!

As you've no doubt heard, we had an extremely snowy January and February that left our primary ski area with about 130 inches of snow on the ground even now, despite the fact that we haven't had a good storm in three weeks.
Here's what it looked like on Feb. 2 at Hyak, the smallest of the Snoqualmie Pass ski areas, but the best bet on a day when Alpental is closed due to avalanche danger:

Since then, we've had more stable weather, even getting some sun! This is good and bad: Good because the snowpack has become less avalanche-prone and you can actually see, bad because powder is a lot more fun than hardpack.

Here's a clip from this past weekend (2/21) of Amy and I skiing groomers at Alpental.

By the end of this day, I was incredibly bored with the resort, so I went up to about 9,000 feet on Mt. Rainier on Saturday (2/23) and had some excellent skiing with sunny skies. Explored some back bowls on a ridge above Paradise on the way down and even found some nice powder! Well worth the effort. No pics/video. I'm so used to going there that I don't take out the camera as much as I should. Next time.

If we don't get any snow this week, Amy and I might have to do more touring.