An SBA Sweep

Fighting alpine marmots swept the podium yesterday during day one of racing at the U16 Western Region Championships on Mount Alyeska, Alaska. Michael Cooper placed first in the giant slalom race, followed by Pieter Weemaes in second and Luke Winters in third. Anchorage Daily News coverage can be found HERE. Kudos! 

Is it Graupel? Hail? Snow? Rime?

"Graupel" has been the word of the week on campus this week. 

Since spell check on Blogger doesn't even recognize it, you might not, either (but it is in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary - click HERE). 

Donner Summit has seen it all lately: snow, graupel, rain, probably even rime. In Monday's All School Meeting, Head of School Tracy Keller had advisory groups conduct smart phone and iPad-assisted Web searches to learn about and articulate before their peers the properties of the various kinds of precipitation we see from our campus at the base of Sugar Bowl Ski Resort. The following is an iPhone photo essay from the meeting.