From the Aspen Daily News (Brent Gardner-Smith):
“At least so far this year, things are setting up in that typical La Nina pattern, said Chris Pacheco, the assistant snow survey supervisor with the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRSC). “It is not surprising that the northern portion of the state is doing better than the southern part of the state.”[…]
And according to [the Ski West Report], snowpack around the Aspen area is at 123 percent of average, based on an average of readings from snow monitoring stations on Independence Pass, McClure Pass, North Lost Trail near Marble and Schofield Pass. The Independence Pass snow-monitoring station, at 10,600 feet, is at 113 percent of average…
The area around the Steamboat ski area is 178 percent of the 30-year average. The areas around Keystone, Arapaho Basin and the Loveland ski area is 157 percent of average, while the snowpack around Copper Mountain and Breckenridge is 139 percent of average. The NRSC shows Crested Butte at 127 percent of average, Vail at 119 percent and Powderhorn near Grand Junction at 103 percent. But then the numbers fall toward the south. The area around the Monarch ski area shows a snow depth of 103 percent of average, Purgatory near Durango is at 100 percent of average, Telluride is at 98 percent and Wolf Creek is at 84 percent…
Snowpack in the Colorado River basin — from the headwaters in Rocky Mountain National Park to above Lake Powell — is 130 percent of average.