Our holiday visitors have probably noticed how bitterly cold it’s been the last couple mornings down in Long Valley and Meadows Valley. It might surprise you to learn that it’s a lot warmer (relatively speaking) up here on the mountain! We have been experiencing a mild inversion, which means temperatures are actually a bit higher up here at a higher elevation.

This morning, as I drove up from McCall (before sunrise), the dashboard temperature gauge in my car was at -1 all the way up Highway 55. As I turned up Goose Lake Road and headed uphill toward Brundage, it evened out at zero, then slowly starting to tick up, 1…2…3…4… By the time I was all the way up our four-mile road, it was all the way up to 19 degrees – and that’s before the sun even came up.

This pattern is expected to continue for the next few days:

So don’t be discouraged if you wake up in town and it’s cold and foggy – chances are you can ‘rise above it’ up here at Brundage Mountain!!!

You can see Meadows Valley under a blanket of fog this morning while it’s bright and sunny up here.

A beautiful day to cruise the slopes and enjoy the spectacular view!

– April