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At some point last night, Mt. Bachelor received its 500th inch of snowfall for the season. That doesn’t mean there is 500 inches of snow on the ground, that’s just how much has fallen since the beginning of November. Got it?

Still, that’s a hell of a lot of snow and an indicator that we might be close to hitting the all-time high in recorded seasonal snowfall, which according to Mt. B’s marketing and communications director, Andy Goggins, is 574 inches, set in the winter of 1998-1999.

This graph spells it out a lot better than my amateur meteorological ramblings.

This article appears in Mar 17-23, 2011.

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Mt. Bachelor Hits 500 Inches of Snowfall for the Season

by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon
March 21, 2011

<h1>Mt. Bachelor Hits 500 Inches of Snowfall for the Season</h1> <p class="byline">by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />March 21, 2011</p> <p>At some point last night, Mt. Bachelor received its <a href="http://www.mtbachelor.com/winter/mountain/snow_report" target="_blank">500th inch of snowfall for the season</a>. That doesn't mean there is 500 inches of snow on the ground, that's just how much has fallen since the beginning of November. Got it?</p> <p>Still, that's a hell of a lot of snow and an indicator that we might be close to hitting the all-time high in recorded seasonal snowfall, which according to Mt. B's marketing and communications director, Andy Goggins, is 574 inches, set in the winter of <a href="http://special.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/sports/outdoors/25549751-44/ski-snow-winter-ni&ntilde;a-areas.csp" target="_blank">1998-1999</a>.</p> <p>This graph spells it out a lot better than my amateur meteorological ramblings.</p> </p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/mt-bachelor-hits-500-inches-of-snowfall-for-the-season-2137511/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=12394&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/mt-bachelor-hits-500-inches-of-snowfall-for-the-season-2137511/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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