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BIGGEST DUMPS

Deep 7-day(ish) snow totals from last winter

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A glacier fell out of the sky.

Between January 4 and February 28, it snowed 409 inches on the patrol’s study plot at 9,000 feet. Double that number for the upper mountain, factor in wind-loading, and some aspects received 80 feet of snow in 34 days.

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