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By Joel Gratz, Founding Meteorologist Posted 12 years ago December 8, 2011

How mountains make snow

LET'S PARTY! Join us in Boulder on Tues, Dec 13th at 630pm to kick-off the season. Bring a $5+ donation for SOS Outreach and get FREE BEER, thanks to Ecogroomer.com. Details: https://www.facebook.com/events/135979503179061/

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Some nice graphics in here about how mountains "make" snow, and why Alta consistently gets more than Park City (which is still a cool place to ski, it just gets less snow). This is the third part of a season-long series about Snow Science (and weather, of course:-).

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Joel Gratz

Founding Meteorologist

Joel Gratz is the Founding Meteorologist of OpenSnow and has lived in Boulder, Colorado since 2003. Before moving to Colorado, he spent his childhood as a (not very fast) ski racer in eastern Pennsylvania.

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