The state of snow play in pictures

From mega storms in California to top ups in Japan . The week that was (and will be) across the northern hemisphere ski areas in one curated photo gallery.

Everyone is talking about Mammoth Mountain right now. With 2 metres (7 feet) in two days, you can see why.  But that’s not the best part. The Californian resort has up to 20 feet forecast in 10 days. Yes, you read that right. Check out the pics we got in our inbox this week.

Buried at Mammoth Mountain

So much snow at Mammoth, California

All the resorts in California are reaping the rewards of the same storm with Squaw, Heavenly, Kirkwood, Northstar and friends dining on pow for breakfast.

Squaw getting the California storm goods

Heavenly in Tahoe bending under the snow pressure

Heavenly in Tahoe. There’s a car in there somewhere.

Meanwhile in Colorado this week, I-70 resorts enjoyed a foot of snow.

Aspen enjoyed over a foot of new snow

Pic by Jon Resnick of Kristen Hartel in Beaver Creek

Pic from Jon Resnick at Beaver Creek

And in Utah, resorts are measuring snowfall in feet not inches with a second storm cycle about to hit on Sunday.

Park City on a powder day.

Park City on a powder day

Park City pow goodness this week.

Photo credit: Park City Mountain Resort stock image.

Snow for lunch at Solitude in Utah

Photo from @EricDyer at Solitude in Utah

Brad Lewis took this pic chosen by Deer Valley this week for their #deervalleymoment

One word? Alta. Utah. Pic by Maxx Haller

Pic by @NoahWetzel at Alta

@EricDyer shooting the pow at Solitude, Utah

Snowbird powder. Photo Credit: Chris Segal for Snowbird

We know how good Utah is right now because we went heli skiing at Park City on Tuesday. Oh, no, no, we didn’t we just got first lifts at SilverStar at Park City. Felt like heli skiing though.

Then we hit up Powder Mountain on the best day of their season thus far. Blue skies, lollipops and pow pow powder.

This week in Canada it was all about real heli skiing.  Check out the pics from Mica, CMH and Weigele below.

Chris Davenport eating pow for breakfast at CMH Cariboos

@ChrisRubens behind the camera at Mica Heli

Photo by Luke Lauren at Mike Weigele heli skiing this week

Wondering about Japan? Wonder no more. Resorts in both Hokkaido and Honshu had some decent snow falls this week with a 40cm storm in Hakuba.

Steve Lee’s backcountry tours in Hakuba.

This is Joel Potter. He’s in Kiroro in Japan’s Hokkaido region. Facebook.com/kirororesort

Japowder in Akakura Onsen

Big storms are heading to California (again) and to Utah this Sunday.  If you’re posting on Instagram tag #misssnowitall so we can check out your turns.

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