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Post by patrick on Apr 5, 2017 17:44:30 GMT -9
4/5/17 I went up the last two days and Pyramid is getting plastered with snow. Today at 2 PM there was 1-2 inches of new stuff at the parking lot and it was snowing hard above the knob. It looks like the snow line was lower down earlier and has moved back up the mountain a bit. But there is 2-3 feet of new snow in the jibber and it is the the thick 'pre corned' stuff. You can skin up on top of it, but your poles posthole. The snow is very wet and grippy, but hey - we're finally getting some deep stuff to last into June. Stuff is getting buried in the Jibber. On another note the road up is also deteriorating badly. Big mud/frost holes and huge lakes from run off into the road and no outlet. A river across the road in one spot. But I did see a grader trying to fix drainage at the switchback - so maybe all will be good. Patrick   |
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Post by Philip on Apr 5, 2017 19:20:09 GMT -9
Cool. The weekend weather looks decent but hopefully we get some dryer snow on top or it's going to freeze into a huge ice cube.
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Post by patrick on Apr 8, 2017 10:47:28 GMT -9
4/8 Pyramid was pretty good this morning - a dusting of new snow on the road as low down as the top of the switchbacks. There is 3 feet of new 'pre-corned' snow in the jibber bowl from the last week of storms. Above the jibber is it is wind packed powder and some pockets of powder and the occasional crusty area. The north bowl was pretty good - heavy powder with some bounce - but the second pitch towards the valley floor was AWESOME. Steep and deep. At around 1500 feet the skiing is funky in places because the buried crust that up high is solid is breakable - then below 1500 the crust disappears. In the jibber the best snow is in the gut - but Dale ripped it all up already. The Beaver pond run is VERY good. Patrick   |
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Post by Philip on Apr 9, 2017 20:38:00 GMT -9
Sunday, April 9
The 'ice cube' was somewhat in effect today. I went up around 10 a.m. after monitoring the cloud level on Pmid via the FAA weather cam at the Kodiak airport. I went up during what I thought might be an opportune weather window of clearing in the morning before predicted afternoon showers set in, but by the time I climbed into the Jibber Bowl, the clouds closed in and moderate snow was falling. The colder temps above the Spruce Knob had frozen mid-mountain and upper elevation snow into pretty firm conditions, and flat light and a consistent snow squall limited my enthusiasm for climbing higher into the soup. Still, the added new snow bodes well for the rest of the week when clearing and warmer temps might bring us actual spring skiing in the early afternoons. The new snow is smoothly distributed, and the North Bowl looks downright lovely. With a bit of spring corning, we could be in for a fun mid-April.
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Post by patrick on Apr 11, 2017 13:42:19 GMT -9
4/11 Corn soup from the jibber on down and soft to the top. At 1 PM the south bowl and 3 tree were perfect. But I have a feeling it will get soupy! It looks like it did not freeze except maybe in the north bowl. Above the jibber is snow on a solid crust. Soft everywhere.
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Post by patrick on Apr 23, 2017 10:37:12 GMT -9
4/23 Bad news - we lost snow top to bottom and today it is still raining up to at least 2000 feet. The good news is that I could still ski to the second lot via the beaver pond run - barely. Where there are old tracks the snow is crusty and bumpy but it is good elsewhere. the far side of the jibber was excellent. also today the visibility was surprisingly good. The snow is textured and dirty from melting. It will be awful when it freezes. Patrick
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