Jasper’s Marmot Basin gets 2 feet of snow in 48 hours!
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
Once in a while, the stars align and the heavens open up and you are in the right place at the right time. Right now are those days at Marmot Basin. We have received a stunning 60 centimeters, two feet, of powder over the past 48 hours and 85 centimeters in the last seven days and it is still snowing. Yesterday morning, November 17, the grooming team had to clear the parking lots with snow cats rather than with a plow because there was 25 centimeters of snow that fell overnight. Lifties were shoveling out the load and unload ramps of the chairlifts along with their buried mazes.
To say Marmot Basin is having an excellent start is an understatement. This is the first time we have had 100 centimeters of settled snow at mid mountain in the month of November and it is only November 18th. Today Marmot Basin opened even more terrain and we now have 53 runs open. The avalanche team is working hard to open the Knob Chair. They will have to do considerable avalanche work to re-establish the safety of this area before we can open it to skiers and boarders, however, we expect the Knob area to open soon.
Skiers and riders are hooting and hollering as they ride the New Canadian Rockies Express high speed quad chair. 2000 vertical feet of perfect powder skiing and riding from top to bottom on our new quad chair. This is a perfect time to head to Marmot Basin as there is another storm headed our way and we are going to need snorkels to ski and breathe if this keeps up.
Brian Rode - Marmot Basin
