Backcountry Skiing..Your Winter Window Into The Chugach.
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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Back In The Chugach – Sabine Arnold (WA)
Read moreThe sky finally stopped leaking. “Rain-Gate 2016” ends.
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The Alaska Department of “Un-natural” Resources will be holding a meeting on Wednesday night at the Valdez Library (Downstairs). The anticipated SRO will allow locals to provide input as part of the snail-paced scoping plan for the Copper River Basin Plan that includes Thompson Pass state lands. 6-7:30 Good place to give DNR your opinion. I will be advocating non-mechanized […]
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(3-30-16/1800) AVALANCHE – Field observations in Thompson Pass indicate the rain line moved to 3000′ with wet, deepening snow as elevation increases.. With sun busting out on Thursday and little radiant cooling tonight due to southerly flow aloft, temps will rocket early tomorrow to the highest of the season on east aspects first, then around the compass rose to west as the […]
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