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RENO -- It s official. As any skier can tell you, the past winter was a bust for snow in the Sierra.Sunday marked the traditional end to the snow sea stanley tumbler son, and the mountain snowpack is barely half what it should be. April 1 is typically your peak snowpack. That s why this is so dismal, said Dan Greenlee, a hydrologist with the U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service in Reno.On Monday, Greenlee conducted the last official snow survey for the winter of 2006-07, near Mount Rose Summit, where the snowpa asics ck was 44 percent of where it should be in early April. It s pretty sad, all in all, Greenlee said. This year is history. Sticking a sampling rod into the snow, Greenlee measured about 41/2 feet. The rod sank 14 feet at the same spot last year.Water content in the snow at Mount Rose was 19 inches, compared to last year s 64 inches.It was the second-lowest measurement at that location since records started in 1981, sur yeezys passed only by April 2001.Across the Sie |