Snow Pack
Any Beta on how the snowpack is setting up in the rockies?
Planning a trip and need the goods.
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Snow Pack
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2009-12-03 12:45:17
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2009-12-03 16:29:11skifreak said:
Any Beta on how the snowpack is setting up in the rockies?
Planning a trip and need the goods.
No Beta afraid but maybe head the other direction - the coast got hammered last month and Whistler is reporting their biggest one month snow fall EVER!
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2009-12-04 18:36:58
skifreak said:
Any Beta on how the snowpack is setting up in the rockies?
Planning a trip and need the goods.
best snowpack in terms of stability in the last 3 years. We are about to go through a cold snap so that will produce some surface hoar and promote facetting but right now it is pretty wicked and also quite deep for this time of year.
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2009-12-04 18:47:57
Good to hear - nice to start out the season right! Hopefully the rest of the season is stable and DEEP.
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2009-12-06 15:14:2415-20 cm of fresh snow on top of a well bonded dense meter plus snow pack at BOW Summit yesterday
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2010-01-04 13:50:39
On Jan-3 I skied the glades under Bow Peak across from Mosquito creek youth hostel (lat. 51.620659° lon. -116.352126°). There was about 30cm’s of low density storm snow with no wind effect, it was pretty sweet. At tree line there was aprox. 150cm’s of snow with the mid pack just barely carrying your skies. Above tree line the snow pack depth was really variable. The new snow made it hard to see rocks, shallow patches and older buried wind slabs. The new snow wasn’t forming into a slab yet and felt Ok on the Dec 29 surface. Once the storm snow starts to stiffen up things could be pretty different.
Great skiing
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2010-01-04 14:21:21What is the base depth currently sitting at? I hear Rogers Pass got hammered and things are pretty unstable at the moment - likely great skiing once things settle out.