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Island Park Snow Conditions (21-22 season)

IDspud

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Snow settled today where we were, flurries in the air all day but not amounting to anything, hop in truck and drive off type coverage on it when we got back to lot.
 

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Today..

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Was up yesterday out on the yale-kilgore road. We had a great day of riding, deeper and firmer snow than we expected. Still some "light bumps" under the snow in places, but still better than expected!
 

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Hey Christopher how's things down there? I really wanna go for a ride !
Spent the day on the mountain today.
First day of Breakin on my new 2022 Turbo Expert.

The snow is a MIXED BAG.

Island Park in general is WELL TRACKED OUT.
BUT.

If you are willing to GET OFF THE BEATEN PATH and do a little back country riding there is GOOD SNOW to be had.

This is a good example.
We were running down a drainage that just beyond that sled in the background turned into a nasty dropoff.
You can see the snow on the left and right of our tracks is just fine.
I would guess there was 4 inches of reasonably "fresh" snow on a TERRIFIC base pretty much everywhere we rode in the 8,000ft range today.

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There is MASSIVE HOAR FROST all over the place up high.
Glad I didn't see any of it on serious slopes, as it would be an AVY NIGHTMARE, but around 3:00pm this afternoon the sun hit that Hoarfrost and all of the snow turned into DIAMONDS.

It was SPECTACULAR to see..

I would have no issues with going right back up for another day.

That said.

The snow forecast is HORRIBLE right now!!
I mean SUPER UGLY for the next 10 days.
 

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US National Weather Service Pocatello Idaho

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The snowpack is still looking good, even though it hasn't snowed significantly in a over a week. We are still above normal for the year (see attached). The next week doesn't look that promising for snow, neither does the 8 to 14 day outlook.
The 3 to 4 week outlook is promising for snow to return.

Here are a few recent news articles with quotes from our Service Hydrologist, Link Crawford, on the current snow status and outlook.
https://localnews8.com/.../recent-snowfall-having.../
https://www.news-journal.com/.../article_52c3c221-ef7e...

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