Backcountry Skiing..Your Winter Window Into The Chugach.
Skies opened up today enough to probe around and get some good skiing. First skin was to the summit of Little Odessey, finding it well-rimed and icy near the top. Dropped the opposite side and found good, but variable snow down to Harveys Ditch. With blue skies moving in, we headed to Schoolbus and poked around at mid-mountain finding fair […]
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Ventured up Obsession from Worthington Glacier State Park, crossing the road and meandering carefully to mid-mountain. The differences in snow depth from the road to 3500 was “obese”, if that word is allowed to describe the snowpack I encountered. I’ve never probed 240cm at this site. Nearly a third of the depth is new storm snow….and there is more on […]
Read moreSki and avalanche reports will be taking a break during the holidays to attend Ashley Kinney’s,(Valdez HS Class of 2003) graduation from the University of Hawaii-Manoa. Boogie board time versus ski time is not a bad alternative to the epic snowpack building in the high Chugach. Enjoy the snow and the deep winter powder. Cheers to all!
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Good ski condition remain in Thompson Pass with some winded surfaces nearer the Gap and at higher elevations. Some light snow moving in tonight through Monday and then better snow accumulations Tuesday night and then occasional snowshowers throughout the week. Winds remain generally light and variable. Temps rising to near 30 as the week progresses. Less clouds and snow north […]
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SKI/AVALANCHE – With Thompson Pass recovering from winds to 50mph and temps to -7F, obviously stability issues have developed over the past few days. Snowpack retention remains excellent with very little scouring of our deep upper mountain snowpack. Mid-mountain protected areas of course will hold some patches of powder but expect some slab issues to assess. Today seemed like a […]
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SKI – EXCELLENT – Knee deep powder on all aspects and elevations in Thompson Pass with some surface imperfections above 3500, but deeper powder than roadside. AVY – GOOD stability abounds and no recent activity. Skinned through 18″ powder on a hard base soloing Schoolbus to mid-mountain, then the hard base disappears with some soft, minor surface slabs and drifting […]
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Excellent skiing on Thompson Pass with deep powder and good stability. Toured up Moonlight with a local group under partly cloudy skies to sunny skies and temps in the upper 20’s. Here’s a short report from Moonlight Basin West. I can tell you it is sick when you wake to sun and you currently have the deepest snowpack in the […]
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