Castle Park Skiing

Submitted by
southrockies
Observations date
Monday, January 11, 2021 at 20:00
Location
49.320210° N 114.412140° W
Reporting on
  • Snow conditions
Map for Mountain Information Network report: Castle Park Skiing

Snow conditions

Riding quality was:
Good
Snow conditions were:
  • Wind affected
We rode:
  • Open trees

Information

The day was:
  • Warm
  • Windy

Comments

We spent the day in the Castle area; a place we don’t get too often near Castle Mountain Resort. We toured up through a sheltered treed ridge to avoid the wind, and dug a profile to find the snowpack consolidated and strong around the persistent weak layers. While these layers and the snow around them seem to be gaining strength we are still avoiding steep, rocky shallow snowpack areas where it may still be possible to trigger. The best skiing was in the trees in sheltered areas to avoid the wind affected snow. Snowpack test results - ECTX, CTM (PC) X2 down 17 and 25