A repeat of 2005!

Past performance is not a guaranty of future behavior when it comes to weather or other inherently chaotic/random systems.

I don't have specific dates handy, but here's the general rules I go by for Crystal...

Halloween = Extremely Early
Before Thanksgiving = Early
Thanksgiving to the weekend before Christmas = Normal
After Christmas = Late
After MLK day = Extremely Late

Snow come, we slide. ;D
Snow no come, we train and fret. :'(

Anyone know of a resource list ski areas' historic opening days (or I guess in 2005, open, close, open, close,etc)? A quick search of Amar's site was fruitless.

I need to know when to start panicking, I hope it will cool my angst.  ???  ;D

Storm door for end of month into first of January?

PNA dives negative
MJO not cooperating, but gaining strength
Will the Cliff Mass ridge shift NW and open up for westerly flow?

We'll see.

www.missionridge.com Good skiing here today. Definitely not a repeat of '05. Cannot blame some folks for ducking ropes and really getting after it. Powder day. Btw. Was it really all the way back to '04/'05 that stuff on the wet side did not open and season pass holders were comparing what their hill did to mitigate holder's losses to other hill's offerings? Seems more recent than that.

I was at Mission friday and it was great. Loup Loup opened this weekend too, entire mtn. Hard to think of another time when Loup Loup was running before Stevens and Baker.