Post by Philip on Mar 12, 2011 14:18:11 GMT -9
We met at the pass at 9am for the avalanche workshop, which was very good. Afterwards a lot of folks headed up Pmid. The weather was fabulous with light and cool westerly winds and little fluffy clouds wafting by. There are two nice tracks to either skin or snowshoe up (use the one appropriate for you 
. We took a run down the north bowl and that was pretty good. There are 4-6" of wind packed pow over a firmer layer underneath. If you skied mellow you stayed up in the pow, but if you really drove your turns you cut down the firm stuff underneath and that was still good but a little less awesome. It was easy to ski out the bottom of the bowl and the coverage is excellent all the way down to the valley floor on the back side, and the alders aren't even an issue. The snow is not perfect down that low, however, but you can get a nice looong run out of it. On balance: super.
We hiked back up and did a south bowl run. Tremendous. Also wind packed pow but with no obvious layers, and the sun was blazing. The snow was bordering on spring snow as the sun cooked it. It was good enough we hiked back up and did a second lap. The whole bowl was good from the nose all the way to the gut. We rode down to the top of the 3 Tree run and it was great the whole way. Even the 3 Tree was in good shape until the last 300' which got skied out and crusty.
It was an excellent day up there and the snow is good in the bowls (Jibber, North, South). The ridges are a bit scoured, but finding pockets of nice snow is not hard at all. Go get some.
. We took a run down the north bowl and that was pretty good. There are 4-6" of wind packed pow over a firmer layer underneath. If you skied mellow you stayed up in the pow, but if you really drove your turns you cut down the firm stuff underneath and that was still good but a little less awesome. It was easy to ski out the bottom of the bowl and the coverage is excellent all the way down to the valley floor on the back side, and the alders aren't even an issue. The snow is not perfect down that low, however, but you can get a nice looong run out of it. On balance: super.We hiked back up and did a south bowl run. Tremendous. Also wind packed pow but with no obvious layers, and the sun was blazing. The snow was bordering on spring snow as the sun cooked it. It was good enough we hiked back up and did a second lap. The whole bowl was good from the nose all the way to the gut. We rode down to the top of the 3 Tree run and it was great the whole way. Even the 3 Tree was in good shape until the last 300' which got skied out and crusty.
It was an excellent day up there and the snow is good in the bowls (Jibber, North, South). The ridges are a bit scoured, but finding pockets of nice snow is not hard at all. Go get some.
