Lessons learned from the ‘22/‘23 winter and what could come with the looming El NiƱo.
At the end of the 2023 winter, the San Juan Mountains, just north of Durango saw a record-breaking snowpack.
According to the National Resource Conservation Service, a branch of the US Department of Agriculture that tracks historical snowpack data, the snowpack in The San Juans topped out at 31.5 inches of snow-water equivalent (SWE) in mid-April. Purgatory Ski Resort,...