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  • Valdez
  • Alaska
  • 99686
  • United States
 

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Spot guide: Thompson Pass is a 2,805 foot-high gap in the Chugach Mountains northeast of Valdez, Alaska. It is the snowiest place in Alaska, recording 551.5in of snow per year on average. In the winter of 1952 - 1953, 974.1in of snow fell—the most ever recorded in one season at one location in Alaska. It is also the most snow ever recorded in one season at one location anywhere in the fifty states. The pass also holds the Alaska record for the most snow in a single day: 62in fell on December 29, 1955.

 

 

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