It might be a tad early to start looking for snow, but history says it’s not entirely unreasonable.

We’ve had flakes flying on October 1, more than a foot near the summit by October 14 and plenty of turns when the trees still had leaves.

Last season, we had 23 inches by November 11, and ended the month at a whopping 119 inches.

While the leaves are still peepin’, winter’s already creepin’. For this trip into the Vault, we dug up a few early-season sightings from years past to support some wildly premature wishful thinking.