Any snow left at any of the MidA resorts?

Not a chance! 

Let me change focus, always curious as to when the last snow melts at the Mid-A resorts each spring.  Anybody able to recall when and at what resort the last snow faded away?  We had a fairly cool spring, so???

The Colonel

Lower Ballhooter - May 5th

On Saturday 7 springs still had huge piles where the stuper pipe was!!

imp

Had a perfect spring corn day today at Timberline, the other one on mt. Hood Oregon.  The magic 2 hours was 11-1, earlier it was boiler plate ice.  The spring skier must be patient.  :)

I'll be here 2 more days.  Tomorrow I'll probably skin to the 10k level.  (The Palmer lift goes to 8500).  That will yield a 4000 vertical foot descent to timberline lodge where I am staying.

I can see Roundtop from the place I work, and it also had snow through the first of May.  Possibly later,

Denis wrote:

Had a perfect spring corn day today at Timberline, the other one on mt. Hood Oregon.  The magic 2 hours was 11-1, earlier it was boiler plate ice.  The spring skier must be patient.  :)

I'll be here 2 more days.  Tomorrow I'll probably skin to the 10k level.  (The Palmer lift goes to 8500).  That will yield a 4000 vertical foot descent to timberline lodge where I am staying.

Denis wrote:

Had a perfect spring corn day today at Timberline, the other one on mt. Hood Oregon.  The magic 2 hours was 11-1, earlier it was boiler plate ice.  The spring skier must be patient.  :)

I'll be here 2 more days.  Tomorrow I'll probably skin to the 10k level.  (The Palmer lift goes to 8500).  That will yield a 4000 vertical foot descent to timberline lodge where I am staying.

 Hope Denis won't mind if I share a photo he sent me with the forum.   This is Denis having fun on Mt Hood, OR this week:

Thanks Jim.

here is some narrative to go with the picture.

skinned up here and waited until it corned up at about noon.  This is just below Crater Rock.  Beyond my helmet you can see the north wall of the crater and the summit.  I went no higher for 2 reasons.  The warm sun that makes for perfect corn skiing also releases rockfall from the heights.  This is why climbers begin summit attempts at 3 AM.  Also the wind was strong and straight down the mountain and I could smell the sulphurous gases from the crater which is just above crater rock and 1000 feet below the summit.  I met a very tired climber coming down who said he got seriously sick to his stomach from the fumes as he passed the crater which is full of steaming mud.  Hood has not erupted for 150 years, but it is sleeping, not dead.  

I timed it perfectly, the descent was 4000 vertical feet of perfect soft corn snow over a firm base.   The first turn after a long skin up on a big mountain is always a little scary.  What if you timed it wrong and it is ice under a thin skin of snow?  You make that first turn gently, with love, as a friend has said.  This time it was perfect.  The ski down was endless, smooth, and metronomic.  At the lodge I quit, having shot enough adrenaline for one day.  I'll be back tomorrow.  :)