Drone shots and tunes were primetime, Chris. You're getting a good handle on that whirly bird.
Island Park / West Yellowstone Riding Conditions for 2024-2025
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Drone shots and tunes were primetime, Chris. You're getting a good handle on that whirly bird.
Its a painfully slow process, but I do think I am making progress on working with that drone.
For me, the absolute HARDEST thing is just seeing the screen.
On a BRIGHT SUNNY DAY with WHITE SNOW everywhere reflecting light, I look at the control screen and just DON'T SEE MUCH at all on it.
And when I was flying down inside of Thirsty Creek, TOTALLY LOST SIGNAL on the drone.
I spent several minutes trying to regain control before I actually owned the drone once again.
Because of that nerve wracking experience, I have found a SIGNAL BOOSTER for the DJI RC2 controller that I will be buying this summer just for Mountain Flight.
it was a ONE DAY EVENT.
As of this morning 7 of the 10 inches have MELTED already..
And we are back to FULL MELT status this morning.
OK, just for kicks and grins.
I downloaded every hourly snow depth report from October 1st through May 15th
That gave me 4,894 cells
4,894/24 = 204 days
Oct 31
Nov 30
Dec 31
Jan 31
Feb 28
Mar 31
April 30
May 15
But the actual count should be 228!
This verifies that the SNOWTEL data set is MISSING MANY MANY HOURLY REPORTS!
Which I can confirm by examining it by hand.
It FREQUENTLY skips, 3-6 hours worth of reporting on a given day.
So my final numbers are ABSOLUTELY SHORT of the truth.
I removed all negative values (Snow melted or compacted in any reporting hour)
That leaves only logged positive snowfall.
Base logged snowfall = 1,058 inches
Then I manually subtract these three "CRAZY" readings by hand
35 inches in one hour
62 inches in one hour
98 inches in one hour
TOTAL LOGGED SNOWFALL for 2024-2025 = "863 Inches"
I downloaded every hourly snow depth report from October 1st through May 15th
That gave me 4,894 cells
4,894/24 = 204 days
Oct 31
Nov 30
Dec 31
Jan 31
Feb 28
Mar 31
April 30
May 15
But the actual count should be 228!
This verifies that the SNOWTEL data set is MISSING MANY MANY HOURLY REPORTS!
Which I can confirm by examining it by hand.
It FREQUENTLY skips, 3-6 hours worth of reporting on a given day.
So my final numbers are ABSOLUTELY SHORT of the truth.
I removed all negative values (Snow melted or compacted in any reporting hour)
That leaves only logged positive snowfall.
Base logged snowfall = 1,058 inches
Then I manually subtract these three "CRAZY" readings by hand
35 inches in one hour
62 inches in one hour
98 inches in one hour
TOTAL LOGGED SNOWFALL for 2024-2025 = "863 Inches"
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