For the first time in 42 winters, total snowfall at one of Jackson Hole Mountain Resort’s measuring stations surpassed 600 inches for the season.

On closing day Sunday morning at the mountain resort, total snowfall since Oct. 1 at the Raymer study station at 9,360 feet was 605 inches, the most measured in a single season since the site was established during the 1997-98 winter.

According to data provided by the Bridger-Teton National Forest Avalanche Center, the Rendezvous Bowl study plot at 9,580 feet recorded 566 inches of snow this season, 11 inches short of the single-season record established there during the 1996-97 winter, when 577 inches of snow fell.

Avalanche forecaster Bob Comey cautioned that upper-mountain snowfall totals were regularly under-reported during the resort’s early years, when forecasters wouldn’t regularly visit the upper mountain plot to measure snowfall.

At the resort’s 8,100-foot mid-mountain study station, considered the most reliable source of historical data, 480 inches of snow fell during the 2007-08 season, the third highest total in resort history. During the 1996-97 winter, 552 inches fell at mid-mountain, and in 1981-82, 486 inches were measured.

“The bottom line is this is one of the top-five seasons in snowfall,” Comey said. “When you throw in the fact that we didn’t have thaws or rain and because the snow was distributed evenly throughout the season, you could easily argue it was one of our best seasons.”

The resort finished the season with settled snow depths of 135 inches at the bottom of Rendezvous Bowl, second only to 1997’s 151 inches of settled snow. At mid-mountain, the snow depth was 108 inches, the fourth-deepest total since 1971.

Total March snowfall at the bottom of Rendezvous Bowl was 136 inches, the highest total ever officially recorded for the month.