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Heavenly Mountain Resort Director of Communications Sara Roston reported that Vail Resorts staff is working tirelessly to bring a great experience to every guest on the mountain, while they faced challenges throughout the heavy snowfall periods.

“The Heavenly team has been working day and night to recover from the challenges caused by the weather,” said Roston. “In particular, we experienced a power outage on the Nevada side of the mountain, which created some unusual operational difficulties this holiday period.”

The outage took out three lifts, leaving California Main Lodge as the only access point throughout the holiday weekend and led to massive traffic and parking issues, the Tahoe Daily Tribune previously reported. Fortunately power was restored and services continued on the mountain.

The number of people visiting the basin comes in waves and depends on the weather and advisories from agencies around the Tahoe Basin.

“When a storm is coming most travelers have heeded the advice of Caltrans, (Nevada Department way through, the snowfall numbers for this year are impressive but not near what you’ll see at the end of particularly snowy seasons. Jeff Anderson, a hydrologist who monitors precipitation data for the USDA, is impressed by the amount of snow that has already fallen.

“We’re at record territory for this time of the winter, not compared to the end of the biggest winters, but we’re definitely on the trajectory if the storms continue to register one of the biggest winters ever,” Anderson said.

When measuring snowpack levels, water content within the snow is the main measurement used. Rain that falls onto the