Backcountry Skiing..Your Winter Window Into The Chugach.
SKI – Wonderful day in Moonlight Basin for many, including the two Valdez family’s who invited me along with their freewheeling 8-year old boys. Damp new powder to 12″ covered all aspects and elevations with new snow See Video below…. A HIGH AVALANCHE WARNING exist tonight on the onset of outflow winds from the north and rapidly decreasing temps. There’s […]
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3-4″ new either wet or like styro-foam on hard wind slab. Untracked so why not. Came in from way LR cause I tried to billygoat up something on Big O, but it was too complicated for a variety of reasons as moved closer to the north and exposed terrain and some variability including some increased slabbing. High-traversed back to this […]
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I took my advise from the previous report and headed up Gulley One direct finding fantastic powder skiing down the gut on some of the dryest snow on earth., Tracked a thin crust layer though lower elevation but it gave way to 10-12″ fresh dry 1F snow, slightly recrystallized on top for quiet skinning and skiing. Didn’t to any pit […]
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Very good ski conditions abound. Powder to 8″ dominates most aspects and elevations. A bit of wind blew the light stuff off in exposed terrain leaving some hardnesses, but anywhere that’s protected should ski fine. North face gulleys in the Odessey Arena should ski great when flat light in not a concern. Lower elevation routes around Port Valdez still in […]
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1700AKT SKi – Condition are improving on Thompson Pass as rain at the road level has changed to wet snow, adding a few inches of cushion over the pesky ice-crust near the surface. Snow has been falling in copious amounts above 4000′ for the past few days, so all we need is a break in the weather and skiing should […]
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Toured to the top of North Odessey Gulley yesterday with Taylor and Greg. While the avalanche hazard remains LOW, ski condition are POOR with a rain crust over a few inches of soft snow, mixed with hard, winded surfaces across all aspects and elevations to perhaps 4000′. Rain mixed with snow will continue in the higher elevations of Thompson Pass […]
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SKI – Looks like we are going to get some significant snowfall over 10″ on Thompson Pass through Friday, setting thing up for some nice conditions building over a hard base. This storm should quickly soften the challenging ski conditions over the past week. While the lower elevations are in poor shape, the snowpack above 2000′ is near normal […]
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