Backcountry Skiing..Your Winter Window Into The Chugach.
Teamed up with some Wasatch visitors and headed up Worthington Glacier for an introduction to Alaska crevasses. Close to zero degrees but that was offset with wonderful powder ski. I was thinking I would attach this video to my “survey form” handed out earlier this week at the DNR presentation on them pretty much doing what they’ve been doing in […]
Read moreToo many telemarkers. Too much fun! (video below) [vimeo]https://vimeo.com/155636108[/vimeo]
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Picking up the good vertical lately that’s for sure and today was no different with a couple inches yesterday with mostly cloudy overhead today. I like Little Odessey a lot mainly cause it’s the highest trailhead at 2700′. Anyway with a stable and smothering snowpack over the north side, Harvey’s Ditch (Harvery Miller) has been a mainstay for my tele […]
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Most excellent sunrise ski of Schoolbus yesterday with good powder and good stability. But on to ski local ski news and see Don, Bernie and Hillary give their opinions on skiing. State of Alaska will hold a hearing this week in Valdez on the Thompson Pass Special Use Area. As some may know, DNR is supposed to hold an annual […]
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Valdez Arena routes are opening up with good powder reports from Mt. Francis along with epic conditions all the way north to Mt. Dimond couloirs. Good to hear of so many skinning, but disappointed to hear of skier tourers taking sled bumps up to Dimond. That is so lazy. Good way to waste one of the best ski tours in […]
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First time up Gulley One this season and it’s deep with good skiing if lighting allows. I went to the small bump beneath the glacier. See pic below. -Weather future looks rather mundane over the next week with weak lows staying to the south due to persistent, yet light northerly flow over the high Valdez Chugach leaving us only chances […]
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This is perhaps the largest documented avalanche to hit the city off Town Mountain. It completely buried the parking lot to the street and the entry way. Pretty impressive now as it was then. Read on about the possible trigger of such a massive slide!
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