Steamboat Pilot & Today

All smiles on the mountain this morning. Local skier Audrey Williams enjoying a powder run. The resort has received almost 2 feet of fresh snow in the past two days. December has been a powder snowmaker, providing one of the largest mid mountain bases of any of the major Colorado destination resorts. Larry Pierce/Courtesy

A line of old skis, used to make a fence for an Old Town home, is covered in powder after Steamboat Springs' most recent snowstorm. Photo by John F. Russell

Don and Marilyn Searls walk their dog, Harley, down a snowy Routt County Road 14B on Sunday. Powerful winter storms are expected to drop several more inches of snow over Steamboat Springs through Wednesday. Photo by Scott Franz

A horse travels through a snowy field Monday south of Steamboat Springs near Routt County Road 14. Powerful winter storms are expected to drop several more inches of snow in the area through Wednesday. Photo by Scott Franz

As of Monday afternoon, Steamboat Ski Area is reporting 10 inches of snow in the past 24 hours at mid-mountain and 17 inches in the past 48 hrs. Photo by Michael Schrantz

Brock Webster cleans the snow off of his 1977 Toyota Land Cruiser on Monday morning. Steamboat residents were greeted by another storm and more snow Monday, and the National Weather Service in Grand Junction is calling for 100 percent chance of snow through Tuesday night. Photo by John F. Russell

An unusual confluence of atmospheric conditions that contribute to heavy snowfall was coming together over Northwest Colorado and Steamboat Springs on Monday morning. Photo by Tom Ross