From The Durango Herald (Shane Benjamin):
Durango received 96.3 inches of snow from October through April, said Briggen Wrinkle, a local weather observer. The average winter snowfall in Durango is 66.7 inches, according to the National Weather Service in Grand Junction.
While it was a big snow year in Durango, surrounding areas received close to an average amount of snowpack and moisture. The Animas River valley from Silverton south to the Colorado-New Mexico border was 90 to 99 percent of normal, said Bryon Lawrence, a hydrologist for the Weather Service. “It wasn’t an exceptional snow year, but it was near normal,” Lawrence said.
From the Vail Daily (Edward Stoner):
Through March, local snowpack was tracking at about the same level of the 2001-02 drought year. But, by Monday, the April storms had pushed snowpack levels at Vail Mountain to about twice of what they were in 2001-2002. That means there is plenty of snow at high altitudes waiting to melt into rivers. There was 19.3 inches of “snow water equivalent” at Vail Mountain on Monday. The average for that time of year is 23.6 inches. Rivers are still running below average this week. The Eagle River at Avon was flowing at 350 cubic feet per second on Wednesday, compared to an average of about 700 cubic feet per second.