Shovelnose Creek

Carte pour le rapport du Réseau d'information en montagne: Shovelnose Creek

Conditions de neige

La qualité du hors-piste était:
OK
Les conditions de neige étaient :
  • Croûtée
  • Poudreuse
Nous avons parcouru:
  • Pentes alpines
  • Pentes convexes
  • Forêt dense
  • Forêt dégagée

Information

La journée était:
  • Nuageuse
  • De tempête

Commentaires

Skied shovelnose creek up to the ridge.

Drove up Br700 to 700m (4x4 w/ chains req'd) and had skins on from the truck. FSR had a light dusting of snow on the rain crust that made for easy skinning.

Once we reached the top of the cut block and entered into the denser forested section travel became a 'character building' exercise. Ski crampons are definitely recommended to minimize your suffering until new snow permeates the canopy.

Once we exited out to the open trees travel became quite easy again, 10cm of powder on a very firm crust. Went up to the ridge at 1850m and skied a couple laps from there on SW aspects (20-30 deg). Skiing was OK, the crust was definitely noticeable on turns.

IMPORTANT NOTE: New snow is not bonding well to rain crust, side skinning was very difficult. This interface should be treated with caution with the new snow incoming this week.