Cascadia/WA Pow Farming ‘23/‘24

[el hefe]

Friday seems like the worst possible day to be in the alpine with generous new snow and freezing levels at or above the summit of Baker.


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Yes, agreed but we have been waiting for about a month for a couple of back to back clear days.

Kendall and Crossroads, are these in Glacier? Probably not rolling in until about 5 ish.

[kamtron]

Yes, agreed but we have been waiting for about a month for a couple of back to back clear days.

Kendall and Crossroads, are these in Glacier? Probably not rolling in until about 5 ish.

You don't want to shop for food in glacier; it's really just a mini-mart. The last real grocery coming from Bellingham is at Nugent's corner.

Good luck, I think you'd be well-served with waiting a bit longer. In a month we may finally have corn. It needs to stop snowing for that...

[waveshello]

If you're reading this go out and look at the ski right now. Straight up, all the way from the north horizon to the south.

[AK47bp]

Take a picture of it to get a better view


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[waveshello]

I couldn't take any photos so I just watched. Here's a couple from my mom's iPhone. Colors were less perceptible to the naked eye but the rays, streams, pillars, curtains, etc. were bright and at times filed the whole sky from horizon to horizon. This from Camano Island.

[MagnificentUnicorn]

Same over here in Wenatchee. Growing up in WA never saw a display like this, not subtle at all even with a fair amount of light pollution


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[phatty]

Yeah, it was pretty amazing. Better than I expected it to be. I'm sure it was better other places, but I watched for a couple hours.

[Benneke10]

Just moved up here from Utah, looking into skiing in the North Cascades soon, anyone know if Shuksan, Cascade Pass or WA pass are still worth skiing, or if there are good places to get that info besides Facebook?

[kamtron]

Just moved up here from Utah, looking into skiing in the North Cascades soon, anyone know if Shuksan, Cascade Pass or WA pass are still worth skiing, or if there are good places to get that info besides Facebook?

Facebook TAY is a lot more active since the update killed old turns-all-year, so you may be stuck with that. A couple of recent reports on the website show good conditions in Cascade pass last week. Nwac observations are more useful this year too.

I think overall coverage is still pretty good above 5k. Shuksan from the ski area is schwacky now but easy from the Sulphide side.

We are transitioning quickly into summer snowpack. I imagine volcanoes will be prime soon. I skied last Wednesday on Kulshan and found pow. Hoping for some real corn on my next outing.

Hit me up if you are in Bellingham

[el hefe]

Managed to get just below the summit on the Roman wall on Friday. Was an awesome experience. Still going through photos but thanks a lot for the help on here! That is a big day in ski boots lol.

[plugboots]

Just moved up here from Utah, looking into skiing in the North Cascades soon, anyone know if Shuksan, Cascade Pass or WA pass are still worth skiing, or if there are good places to get that info besides Facebook?

WA pass is skiing fine on N faces. Getting shitty in the woods, but so what.

[kamtron]

Managed to get just below the summit on the Roman wall on Friday. Was an awesome experience. Still going through photos but thanks a lot for the help on here! That is a big day in ski boots lol.

Nice, glad you had fun!

[Benneke10]

With the incoming weather, I am looking into rainshadowed ski options for this weekend in the Entiat and Chelan ranges like Seven Finger Jack and Cardinal Peak. I know Chiwawa road is closed but I have an ebike. If anyone has info on conditions or wants to join please let me know!

[Power_Sauce]

Good turns in the Teanaway today:


Snow line is around 5500 feet on South aspects.


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[jacob_dbu]

Anyone remember that link for the snow coverage map? I think it was a bunch of pages back. It was super handy and I bookmarked it and now I can't find it.

[kamtron]

I was in the Methow this weekend but didn't bring skis. Still took a few photos to show coverage near the hairpin. Snowpack seemed a bit deeper at Rainy

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[Brasso]

Anyone remember that link for the snow coverage map? I think it was a bunch of pages back. It was super handy and I bookmarked it and now I can't find it.

Any chance it's the WTA map? I literally just stumbled across it https://www.wta.org/go-outside/map

[ptavv]

I think the WTA map is just a prettified version of the NOHRSC snow depth layer
https://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/interactive/html/map.html

It's somewhat accurate, but don't treat it as gospel, particularly in steep areas because the pixel sizes for its predictions are pretty large

[MagnificentUnicorn]

With the incoming weather, I am looking into rainshadowed ski options for this weekend in the Entiat and Chelan ranges like Seven Finger Jack and Cardinal Peak. I know Chiwawa road is closed but I have an ebike. If anyone has info on conditions or wants to join please let me know!

What were you thinking of skiing on SFJ? The best approach to Cardinal might be from Lucerne up to Domke Lake/Emerald Park. I’m not sure on the Entiat Road.

Looks like the Entiat River Road is open.


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[caulfield]

Silver peak coverage is pretty ideal right now. The hot pow was fun around 930 yesterday, guessing the dozens of people heading up after us had it worse though

which one of you skied the zipper yesterday? looked pretty in!

[plugboots]

Still great skiing at WA Pass from the car. Telemetry wasn’t working for a few days, but it’s working now, and you can tell it’s been freezing hard every night, so it’s all simply about timing the corn.


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[jacob_dbu]

I think the WTA map is just a prettified version of the NOHRSC snow depth layer
https://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/interactive/html/map.html

It's somewhat accurate, but don't treat it as gospel, particularly in steep areas because the pixel sizes for its predictions are pretty large

Thanks, this is what I wanted!

[plugboots]

Should be really good all weekend .

[S_jenks]

Some end of the season pics now that uploader is sorta working again.

[plugboots]