The adage goes like this: “You won’t know if you don’t go.” So, go forth and tempt getting skunked; you might find touring bliss. The high sun and potential for snow-albedo not working in your favor means the likelihood of diminishing returns on your tour’s big-smile quotient. Get after it while you still can. Most of us are not pros traversing latitudes and longitudes in search of the endless winter. Which brings us to the season’s final SWE overview.
It’s been a pretty good season from a non-data-driven overview of the touring season. For many of us, just a few good days of light powder snow are sufficient to satiate the “need.” Whether your zone had low, medium, or high SWE, we hope you made the best of it. While some in the PNW were touring on October 31, others in the Tetons, for example, got a later start. Our lead in Alaska, Alex Lee, spoke of an on-again, off-again snow sliding scene with a trend toward more off-again. (This is not to say that current conditions at the Kahiltna International Airstrip aren’t snowy. Reports claim they are.)
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