“Conditions are awesome”: Mt. Bachelor sees best start to the season, base depth at almost 100 inches
(Update: Adding video, comments from staff, visitors)
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Mount Bachelor is receiving lots of fresh snow for skiers and snowboarders. Snowboarders and skiers say it's a great time to play in the snow.
A snowboarder, like, Joshua Adams, made the journey to Bachelor from Seattle.
"Hopefully we get more storms to come through," Adams said Saturday. "The powder is just really good. It just lets us be kids, you know, as adults."
People are stoked to go on runs.
Josh Leaberton is visiting from Corvallis saying conditions are pretty good.
"It's a little tracked down, not going to lie, but for the most part, you know, it's pretty good," he said. Conditions getting up here was not good, but, yeah."
As of Saturday afternoon, Mount Bachelor's Director of Marketing and Communications, Lauren Burke, says the mountain is sitting at the highest base depth in the country at about 96 inches.
Burke said, "The other Oregon resorts and Washington resorts have also been getting a ton of snow. So we're all kind of battling it out for that top spot. Based on how these storms are coming through."
People chasing the fresh powder are hoping for more days like this. Bend resident Cole Pensinger is loving the conditions.
Pensinger said, "Conditions are awesome. I just came over from Cloud Chaser. Super soft, colder than yesterday. The temperatures got to a nice level, so softened up the snow. Got a nice layer of, like, probably like 6 or 8 inches, I think they reported. I thought it was a lot of powder that we've been getting. so we got a really nice base."
Bachelor opened two weeks early, on November 15, and says it's a season you don't want to miss.
Burke added, "We have had, you know, one of the best starts to the season that we've seen in probably over the last ten, 20 years here. We've had almost 200 inches of early season snowfall. Our base depth is almost 100 inches. At this time last year, we were almost at a quarter of that base. So people can expect a really, really long season with incredible conditions."
