An unbelievable transformation

5ft of snow was the outrageous clam by some locals... The amount of snow needed to 'Save' the season. I mean if it didn't snow, its not like I would have come home. But the thought definitely crossed my mind...

5ft is a lot of snow, further more if this magical 5ft of snow was going to arrive on our door step, was almost certainly not something that was going to happen over night, or at least even over a few nights. Or was is..??

On Monday the 19th of Jan it started snowing... Hard, and continued: Tue, Wed, Thur, Fri and Sat. Then stopped briefly, and then started again, and continued for another couple days. Finally ending this afternoon, when the clouds actually lifted for the first time since our arrival, and we were actually able to see outside our apartment. To our surprise, we have quite the amazing view!

Beween these two storms that ravaged the Jackson over the last week. We topped out at just over 5ft of fresh snow. At its peak, we had something like 50inch's in 72hours. leaving our season snow fall total at 244inch's.

The skiing day to day as you could imagine was out of control. Deep turned to deeper which turned to drowning and choking on powder.

We skied some amazing areas the last few days. Some spots were particularly amazing as they had not been open all season.

No skier or boarder had had the privilege to plough trenches down the prefect white powdered slopes. Until now.

Tuesday morning, we got up early. Strait up the gondola the on to a hike known as the 'Elevator.' There's no other way to say it, but this hike SUCKS. The reward however is worth it. Over and over again.

We skied an area called the Crags. A good way to describe this area in words would be. Super Mario Land. Ski down as hard and a fast as you want hopping, jumping and flying from soft powder pillow to powder pillow. So much fun! The photos speak for them selfs.

Photos by Tristan Greszko