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Post by steve on Jan 11, 2020 13:13:49 GMT -9
There is enough snow to skin from the road and ski to the parking lot via the Beaver Pond Run and Sharon's Traverse.
Some snowboarders have been riding down to the parking lot along the up track but there is still a lot of brush to negotiate, so be careful.
The upper mountain is wind scoured with lots of rocks still visible, but skiable on the hard crust. As you get down to mid mountain and gibber bowl the snow is softer, deeper but variable with some salmon berry and alder to negotiate but still good fun.
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Post by steve on Jan 19, 2020 19:34:46 GMT -9
The skiing on Pyramid is still pretty Good The top is wind blown with lots of rocks but as you get down to the bowls and more protected terrain, we are still getting more snow to cover the brush and tracks. With good ski conditions so close to the road you might not think of longer approach skiing till spring. But when its good on Pyramid Evening light:   Cold nights and (relatively) calm days are causing surface facets to form. If buried by new snow, this could cause an instability in the snowpack until warmer temperatures cause the layers to bond.  |
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Post by patrick on Jan 19, 2020 22:37:20 GMT -9
1/19/2020 And best of all the road got plowed!
Patrick
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Post by steve on Feb 1, 2020 15:31:16 GMT -9
Friday afternoon the DOT had the road to Pyramid plowed, but to our surprise late in the afternoon no one had broken a skin track or snowshoe trail up Pyramid.
We did see about 7 snowboarders hiking up Bear MT. from just before the golf course. It did look like some good riding and out of the wind .
It took almost an hour to brake trail to the top of jibber bowl 1500', the sun was setting so we skied down from there.
Jibber bowl was variable with light fluffy, wind pack powder and wind slab! Lucky for us the lower you got and the sheltered areas skied great.
The Salmonberry bushes are almost entirely covered along the uphill track from the parking lot to Spruce Knob and finally skiable .
We didn't see any sighs of Avalanche activity, but with all this snow and wind loading it would be good to take CAUTION as to where you ride.
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Post by patrick on Feb 14, 2020 19:00:23 GMT -9
2/14/2020. Today Pyramid was pretty good and the road good too - they plowed it yesterday before the new snow. Last night we got around 4-6 inches of new powder. There is still not very much snow up above 1500 feet and right now the best skiing is the last 500 feet above the road. Jibber good too. Up high it is dust on an often icy crust. Yesterday I skied the waterfall run which I have not done in years (the ridge from the top of the jibber down towards the gravel pit on the parking lot side of the big ravine). Today I skied the cornice run - good at the top, bad in the middle and GREAT down low. So down low the brush is covered. But we desperately need more snow above 1500 feet.
Patrick
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Post by steve on Feb 28, 2020 0:38:14 GMT -9
The skiing on Pyramid is very good now with a nice consistency of medium density new snow over the entire mountain and most of the rocks are even covered. And the road is plowed. But beware! Someone set off a huge avalanche on a South-East facing slope behind the Flats just west of Cope Mt. on Thursday:  |
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