editor’s note: ย Um… ย Portillo has way sicker terrain than we thought it did. ย Might be time to make a trip to Portillo…
by Andrew Rumph
We started out with a great start of the season with tons of snow in June but then it didn’t snow for about 3 weeks in July. The end of July we had three storms and conditions were amazing. ย The best day of the season was a week and a half ago on Aug. 1st. ย The day after we had a huge wind event and all of the new snow was blown away and we were left with the rock hard base. ย Now we are in a freeze thaw cycle with hard snow early and soft spring snow the rest of the day. ย Hopefully we will get some snow soon because it’s going fast.
The forecast for Portillo is showing no snow and high temperatures the rest of this week: