… and two inches at mid-mountain. In other words, a lot of heavy, heavy snow, even by Sierra cement standards.

It rained and snowed throughout the day, with the snow level fluctuating from 7000’ to 8500’.

The Burnout run was littered top to bottom with bewildered skiers and boarders unable to deal with the piles of cement.

It was not exactly a powder day. You had to straight-line everything, and good luck with the runouts. I met a retail employee who snowboards who took the wrong run in the morning and spent two hours crawling through a couple hundred yards of waist-deep muck.

The storm was a huge relief since we haven’t had anything up to this point. However, the high snow levels and torrents of rain were no help for all the runs that drop down to base level.

The drought isn’t over, but Folsom reservoir rose ten feet after three days of rain.