We toured up to Notch to make sure that it was actually snowing and blowing, and we weren’t disappointed. We saw heavy snow and strong winds with conditions picking up through the day and around 8″ snow on the ground by noon. We triggered a few small storm slab avalanches on short but steep rollovers.  [ Read More ]

Surface hoar on top of about 20cm of soft snow and a crust on our route. We were concerned about the ski down being challenging on breakable crust. But suprisingly it was just suportable if skiing gingerly and the skiing was not bad. We did an ECT and got no result. There was a double  [ Read More ]

Lower raggedy meadows. It seems like it snowed way less in Girdwood than was forecasted – (in town atleast) but then we got up there and it was DEEP and HEAVY. Challenging skiing but fun. Wind affected but in a dense way that seemed to have very little energy. Saw no shooting cracks, new snow  [ Read More ]

Nice day up Magpie. Broke through the fog around 2,000’ and enjoyed the beautiful winter light.  [ Read More ]

We skied into Notch today to get eyes on the snowpack for the first time this season. Last night’s storm brought 1-1.5′ of snow to the area, with some noticeable density changes in the middle of the storm layer. We saw widespread avalanche activity failing within the new snow, and a couple very large avalanches  [ Read More ]