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A new video just released from Whitewater will get you salivating for the real stuff just around the corner - check it out and see what's in...
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The forecast looked good for the day so we prepared for our annual last ski tour of the season at an undisclosed location (sorry this private...
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Spring held off this week again and the powder piled up as Whitewater was closed for the week so it was pretty obvious that White Queen would be...
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The skin up from the Silver King chair quickly let us know that the sun had baked south aspects so we decided to ski Acidophilus and get some...
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After a few nice turns in bounds we knew the touring would be great. We decided to stick to the trees and drop into Acidophilus.
The snow quality...
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Still snowing at whitewater today and White Queen was looking pretty inviting on the drive up, so we signed out and took the Silver King Lift up...
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With new snow and no sun for the last few days White Queen was looking superb.
We hiked to the rigde from the top of Nugget which skips the...
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Just returned from a tour into West Ymir after the catch basin access was opened up by the Whitewater ski Patrol.
It was windy and snowing all...
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Spent the morning looking for any remaining stashes of good snow in the Whitewater backcountry and figured 'up high' would be the place to...
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After the massive dump of snow we had I was curious to check out conditions in the White Queen area. Here is what I found:
230cm height...
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Another sunny day and warm temps called us to try and find some soft snow, success was had in Acidophilus. About 12cm of light fluffy snow [2cm...
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Went into five mile today again for a beautiful sunny day. The snow was still awesome six days later - 15cm, dry and soft. Did the bootpack...
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Back in Kutetl after two weeks and under similar conditions, sunny and hot.
The snow has held up very well considering it has not snowed since...
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Toured into Five Mile today. Low visibility and moderate winds on the ridge did nothing to spoil the creamy 25cm of new snow. We did three laps....
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Skied into Scob’s Knob yesterday at around 3:00. Super sunny—and felt almost spring-skiing-like immediately after we dropped in off...
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Today was a beautiful sunny day and we hit first chair [almost] in order to get into Ketutl and see if there was anything worth skiing. We gained...
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The sun finally shone today so we headed up to Whitewater and decided to ski White Queen, we were worried about it being skied out or a possible...
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Under sunny skies we toured up to the top of white queen by 10:00 AM and switched to ski mode and then worked our way out to the farthest point...
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We hit a few laps on 5 mile Saturday, January 30th. The up route was up and over Half-dome. We skied N-NE aspects and climbed back...
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Yurts have been recently renovated and are back in action. Skiing has always been good. Recent Blog entries.
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After three weeks of snow and cloud the sun finally came out again – so we took full advantage of the opportunity to get out and ski White...
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Headed up onto to Blaster's Ridge and around to Prospector Bowl this early aft (Saturday) to get away from the hubbub. The uptrack was well...
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Went up Mt Beattie. On the way up we saw a lot of fracture lines and had a lot of whumphing. On top we met a group of KMC people who dug a...
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Went for a quick hike out of Whitewater into Acidophilous yesterday to check things out. As expected there were visible and audible signs of...
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Even with the elevated avi rating due to this weekends new snow we decided to head out to see how the new storm snow was sitting on the weak...
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