Backcountry Skiing..Your Winter Window Into The Chugach.
One more time as I survived my 37th winter wanderings with the Valde-zease. It ends in nice fashion with JP2 along. Loveland Basin looks good, but will require a 1/2 hour approach if your still looking to get your ski de-rusted. Here’s a nice video with natural sounds followed by a few pics. Off the top…. One last round of […]
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It ain’t over til it’s over and the effort continued today, June 8th, in Thompson Pass, AK. First time this year not skiing directly from the car door, but a cold stream crossing and some thickets did little to dissuade JP2 and I as we toured to the top of School Bus for 2700′ of slushy corn and some other […]
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Very nice nice snow on northerly like aspects above 3000′. Some hiking (10-15 minutes) to snow in Loveland plus a minor stream crossing to get at Schoolbus, which look real sweet above mid-mountain. I toured to do the nose of Little Odessey for simplicity enjoying corning sun cups top to bottom. Soloing some Chugach June sweetness.
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By getting and early start, like at 8am, great corn skiing is happening on most aspect and elevations above 2500′. Good corn skiing remains all day on higher shaded aspects with some mid-day stickiness and rotting on the lower elevations. Toured up to Loveland Basin with JP2 and skied the north shore. School Bus along with Little Odessey should remain quite […]
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Nice first day of spring in Loveland Basin favoring the un-brapped terrain along the north shore. Longer than normal video of mostly telemarking. some gentle 1/2 piping along with cursing carbon made ruts. For clarification, the entire drainage including Loveland Peak and Tones Temple South is in Loveland Basin. The DOT Glacier is named for the state road crews on […]
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Welcome back salty Josh McDonald! Back in town from the South Pacific for a bit to ride, leaving the S/V Bema high, dry and lonely. Hope you like the tune to the video as it seemed appropriate Today we rallied and decided to do a route I’d never done to the top of Berlin Peak(5740) from the south, which is […]
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Fast skinning for the two of us over hard, yet corning surfaces to the Schoolbus Overlook and back to parking with easy telemarks. Others nearby gained the summit of Goodwills under ideal conditions. The snowpack is stout, stable and should last well into May and hopefully June. Carbon-dependent extremist hit Thompson Pass this weekend with the annual Valdez Mountain Man Hill […]
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