Category: Ski Reports 2012-15

SKI – Took an odd way to 27-Miles Icefall which I tried to skin to the top of but the sun was producing rapid instability under foot with rollers coming down overhead so I baled, but still good powder on shaded northerly aspects. Also odd was a snow depth of only three feet were I turned around. At the top […]

Out with more visitors today and headed up Gulley Two. One of the skiers was Mary from Utah who is now an official member of “ELEVATION 55“ based in Valdez, made up of those older than 55yoa who pursue the human-powered effort a few times a week, whether in the mountains, gym or the weight room,… to keep healthy and […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]