“I’m looking out my office window and it looks like winter again, you know, where the last few days, it hasn’t,” said Solitude Mountain Resort Communications Manager Sherri Harkin on Thursday. “So it’s great to see.”
A storm dropped inches of snow on the mountains Wednesday, but the snowpack is still lower than average, according to National Weather Service hydrologist Brian McInerney, who called the amount of snow “grim.” The water supply is OK, he said, but the weather pattern is hurting the ski industry.
The snowmaking team is running numerous snow-making machines, and also is taking it from the parking lot to thinner spots and hand-shoveling it onto the mountain, she said.