Idaho 2018/19 winter

[robby denning]

Umm...I just checked a snotel site that gained 35" of snow in the last 3 days!!!

I saw a prediction of 50" around Stanley/unit 36

 

[mtnwrunner]

It just won't stop. And it's gonna continue for another 2 days. One of my coworkers lives in Round Valley near cascade and has got 38 inches since Friday. He keeps track of snowfall and this brings his total this year to 12 feet.

Randy

 

[Broomd]

Here in whitetail country things are getting a bit sporty. I jumped on the mountain sled yesterday to look things over around us. It's deep. Just north of us CoeurdAlene has had 50" of snow just in February--records shattered. Daily temps for the month of Feb have averaged 12* below normal too.
The snow is at least half as deep under the pines and firs in the thick timber. Judging from what I saw around here, the deer are predictably using those areas to travel, feed and bed. But it's impossible to drive around here without seeing deer on the plowed roads trying to avoid the deep snow; they are everywhere.

The elk are okay, still plenty plump from a mild Winter up until now.
Forecast is for possible snow for a couple more days, then sunny and zero lows for the next week.

 

[Mike 338]

First year I can remember that the Boise Basin is carrying as much snow as areas in the rest of the State. Just looked out the window. Still snowing!!!

 

[Broomd]

Blizzard today.

 

[pumatom]

This is current snows
Well above normal
Starting to get bad

 

[AK Troutbum]

I gotta admit that I’m a little envious. Man, with all that fresh powder (I’m assuming colder temps/low moisture content snow), I sure hope that at least a few of you are taking advantage of it on the slopes!


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[bluetick78]

No powder, in Eastern Idaho at least. The last 4 days it's been a warm storm. Rain in the valleys, wet heavy snow in the mountains. I just got back from deer watching, they are starting to show the stress. There's a couple feet more snow than last week. If the winter kills a bunch in the next month or so, hunting will be tough this fall.

 

[robby denning]

No powder, in Eastern Idaho at least. The last 4 days it's been a warm storm. Rain in the valleys, wet heavy snow in the mountains. I just got back from deer watching, they are starting to show the stress. There's a couple feet more snow than last week. If the winter kills a bunch in the next month or so, hunting will be tough this fall.

and they haven't even recovered from the 2016/2017 winter. sad face

 

[freebird]

and they haven't even recovered from the 2016/2017 winter. sad face

Robby, do you the timing of all this new snow is going to have adverse effect on the pregnant does?

 

[robby denning]

Robby, do you the timing of all this new snow is going to have adverse effect on the pregnant does?

Yes but especially fawns


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[bluetick78]

and they haven't even recovered from the 2016/2017 winter. sad face

Exactly. We only have around 50% of the deer that we had going into the winter of 2016/17. Even a 20% winterkill this year will leave us with less deer than the fall of 2017.

 

[Mike 338]

Picked up some snowshoes recently. Looks like I'll be able to use them well into Spring.

 

[Joe Schmo]

Exactly. We only have around 50% of the deer that we had going into the winter of 2016/17. Even a 20% winterkill this year will leave us with less deer than the fall of 2017.

That's exactly the deal!!

 

[Broomd]

Was -5* this morning.

Feeding the cows this afternoon and had a bull elk following twenty feet behind picking up dropped hay scraps.
Finally tossed 10#s of barley/pea mix hay on the snow; he was mowing it down when seven more showed up.
The cow elk are slimming down in a hurry with the deep snow. They'll be calving in only two months!

 

[Ross]

February was bad in north Idaho but up until it was very limited things breaking soon according to forecast late this week....could be a lot worse up here like winter of 96/97 that started in late October and ended in April

 

[IdahoElk]

Snow is now boiler plate hard, animals just aren't catching a break this winter.

 

[Broomd]

-10* this morning....

 

[IdahoElk]

Here are some Elk from the weekend,haven't seen deer for a while.

 

[elkguide]

You certainly have just brightened my day IdahoElk!