BC Hut Trip Report – Day 5 – One Dry Billowy Powder Run After 6″ of New Snow Report from January 9, 2023 Yesterday I woke up in a foggy snowstorm feeling pretty darned tired. I broke out of the hut with the crew for a down-valley powder lap. The snow was good. The skiing was phenomenal. Dry, billowy, British Columbian powder snow. On the skin track back up I knew it was the right day to roll […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | January 10, 2024 0 Comments
BC Hut Trip Report – Day 4 – Pillow Drops, Deep Powder, -5ºF, A Thimble of Sunshine, & Unknown Chutes Report from January 8, 2023 We got out at about 10am today, which is only 1 hour after sunrise here right now. -5ºF with no wind. We decided to go uphill from the hut and sniff out some above-treeline pillows. The sun miraculously came out despite all the forecasts that forbade it. The closest pillows from the hut were beaming […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | January 9, 2024 0 Comments
BC Hut Trip Report – Day 3 – Pillow Powder Day With a Nasty Darkside Sun-Kiss Report from January 7, 2023 Today was a pillow powder day. We got out early and headed straight for the pillows. The sun was out a bit in the morning and just there being some blue skies brightened things up and made the skiing better via greatly improved visibility. It’s record low tide here right now so we tread lightly. […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | January 7, 2024 0 Comments
Wasatch Mts, UT Report: Nasty-Fun Big Mountain Skiing on Recrystallized Powder | Tight Chute to Fields of Glory to Tight Chute Report from January 2, 2023 Yesterday morning we got out early-ish and started digging up a long flat trail into a zone I’d never been to in the Wasatch Mountains, UT. The stats are kinda fun: 4,700-vertical-feet 5 hours & 20 minutes to the top 7 hours & 40 minutes round trip 9.8 miles round trip It’s real simple how […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | January 3, 2024 0 Comments
Trip Report: 45º Steep East Couloir of 11,330 Twin Peaks | Wasatch Mountains, UT Report from December 31, 2023 Yesterday I decided to go for a long walk and try a scary, steep line that I knew was going to hold bad, wind-hammered snow. I’d seen the east couloir of 11,303′ Twin Peaks (Broads Fork, Twin Peaks East) from Cardiac Ridge on December 15, 2023, and it looked skiable. It had just enough snow. […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | January 1, 2024 0 Comments
Earthquake Off the West Coast of Japan Shocks Hakuba Ski Areas Reported January 1, 2024 At 4:10PM local time January 1, a magnitude 7.6 earthquake hit Noto in the Ishikawa Prefecture of Japan. Tsunami warnings are in effect for Niigata with the swell expected to be over 10ft. This coastal region directly includes the route between Hakuba and Lotte Arai. Two ski resorts frequented by Americans on the Epic and IKON pass […] Weather Brett Ploss | January 1, 2024 0 Comments
Trip Report: Hallucinating in the Legendary Terminal Cancer Couloir | Ruby Mountains, NV Report from December 22, 2023 Last Friday, I awoke at 5am and hit the road by 5:30am in Park City, UT. Headed west. I’d gotten some inside information from a local that despite the low snow this season, the Terminal Cancer Couloir in the Ruby Mountains, NV was in. The apron, however, was not. Terminal Cancer Couloir – Ruby Mountains, […] Conditions Report Miles Clark | December 30, 2023 1 Comment
[VIDEO] North America Snow Forecast by Meteorologist Chris Tomer | Dec 28 – Jan 2, 2023 Meteorologist Chris Tomer gives his forecast for the coming week in North America. Looking VERY dry and more rain is forecast for the Northeast 😐 The winner is: Whistler Blackcomb? Kinda… Weather WeatherBrains | December 29, 2023 0 Comments
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