Lassen / Shasta Conditions Anyone?

Skied up at Brewer Creek today. Snow on the road from about 3mi from the trailhead and impassable 1mi before due to a log across the road and massive washout divot.

We found a handful of decent windbuff turns on more northerly facing aspects but most of what we saw was either windstripped down to tooth-chattering slickness or a nice crust. The best turns of the day were actually on the really mellow slopes below about 8500ft where they had undergone a mini corn cycle.

Snow coverage was great though, only hit one or two small rocks on the descent down to the car at 7000.

Hah!!! Asked and received
Well done lazy
Sure looked sexy from afar
We had a brief period where the summit cloud cap broke and revealed the trinities and upper casaval looking smooth and sweet after some sun kissing.

[QUOTE=lazyasian;4834858]Skied up at Brewer Creek today. Snow on the road from about 3mi from the trailhead and impassable 1mi before due to a log across the road and massive washout divot. /QUOTE]

Should've taken a right and headed to the Gravel Creek TH and visited Clitoris Falls.

Skied from bunny yesterday (sat 10/22). Up to helen lake. Good coverage, never softened up due to clouds though. Sufficient cover back to the trailhead but was melting fast.

Forecasts keep getting dialed back on precip amounts for next go-round, but a refresher on top of this base might make next weekend decent if there's a window

I'm gonna go out on a limb and predict that May/June will be good.

Anyone up there this weekend?

Fall weekend getaway ??

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Anyone up there this weekend?

Fall weekend getaway ??

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Heading up from nlake early sat - sun or mon depending on how conditions are.

It sounds like it snowed a bunch up there, but wondering if there is skiing from bunny flat at the moment? Looking at heading up Saturday-Monday.


http://snowbrains.com/mt-shasta-ca-c...ely-fing-epic/

As of Oct 21. Yes. You can ski from Helen to Bunny Flat

How would you know? :)

But yeah, there was just barely enough coverage to go all the way to/from the lot that weekend. Coverage was only thin near the lot, it was FAT up high. I assumed it would be a lot deeper after this latest big dump, and it probably is, but interestingly the Shasta cam images look about the same as after the first storm, I would have expected it to be even more white. But it's still pretty damn white. If there's any dry hiking it isn't gonna be much. You should go and report back!

There should be coverage to bunny flat. Definitely was two weeks ago before this storm (which finished colder than the previous one). Also shasta avalanche refers to skiing down to bunny as of monday - http://shastaavalanche.org/overall-c...ing-conditions

Attachment 191675 Skinned from the lot at Bunny yesterday (11/1). Plenty of snow on the ground there to ski down at the end of the day, though it'll be melting fast with the high temps and sun this week. Snow was blower in the morning below Helen. Started to get a bit heavy by the afternoon and was crusting up by the evening down low. Above Helen was chalky windbuff but I'm not sure how well it'll hold into the weekend with the high snow levels.

The mt shasta avalanche center website has a couple of different weather site links at different elevations. The sand flat station was reporting around 7 inches a few days aai

The new plan is to head up Sunday, ski Monday, come home Tuesday in hopes to get sun and no wind due to this "storm" coming in Sat-Sun. Hopefully this plan will work...being exposed up on Shasta in wind, or snow, or clouds, or any weather for that matter, can be rugged :(

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The new plan is to head up Sunday, ski Monday, come home Tuesday in hopes to get sun and no wind due to this "storm" coming in Sat-Sun. Hopefully this plan will work...being exposed up on Shasta in wind, or snow, or clouds, or any weather for that matter, can be rugged :(

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Heading up there from tahoe tomorrow. Plans to ski sun,mon. We'll be camped out at bunny flats in a cab over on a grey silverado.

Copy that.

This is worth a watch too-

https://youtu.be/Ce8dIbDzs_E

Any Lassen beta?
Curious where the snow line is...

Lassen looked fat from 89 north of the park on Saturday, coming back from Shasta.

Snow on the ground at the south entrance (~7k ft iirc)
https://www.nps.gov/lavo/learn/photo...ia/webcams.htm

Friends skied there over the weekend. Reported that Saturday was good on East faces, skinnable from South Visitor's center with the road skiable on the way back. With the cloud greenhousing on Sunday the skiing was less inspiring (getting soggy/crusty) and the exit skiing on the road was spotty. With the forecast for this week it seems out of play for a little while, depending on desperation level of course.

We headed to Brewer Creek area to see where snow line was and explore that side of the mountain. We made it in on the road to below the last switchback where snow combined with a wash out forced us to park. It was only a 1 mile skin to the trailhead bathroom area. About 6-12" base at the Brewer Creek Trail Head, and the snowpack grows exponentially as you start climbing from there. Super impressive early November snowpack up high. No rock poking through and consistent coverage. We ski'd yesterday, and a cloudy day turned bluebird and warm and then cloudy and cold again. High pressure has probably set in by now. We made it up to around 10,300' on the Hotlum-Wintum area until we noticed the skiing above us was going to be a terrible as that below us! We had about 1,000' of icy glazed doughnut variable snow, followed by 1,000' of absolutely 10/10 dreamy corn bliss, and then the runout to snow line was pretty soggy but uneventful.

Great to be out on the skis and in the grandeur of Shasta!

Also FWIW we called 5th season staff on the way in, and per their update, Bunny Flat is burned out with a .5-1 mile hike to snow line from the car.

Brewer Creek Road access beta valid 11/08/2016

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^^ nice work. I wonder if that icy suncupping will melt down smooth with the corn cycle temps, or if it will get worse?

Skied some of Shasta from Bunny Flat yesterday and hiked up to 11,500 and there was still a very icey glaze and rain crust about 1" thick. Not the most fun skiing down to 10k or so, but then the sun softened lower slopes for some good corny turns. Was about a .5 mile hike to skinning. Skied to within .25 miles of the car. Great coverage!

My take on it is that with the days being so short and the sun angle low, the surface snow doesn't change as much as it would later in the year. In other words, what you get is what you got. Not a bad thing for November though!

Skied shasta last Sunday and Monday. Rained pretty high up sat night through much of Sunday. Fun slush down low and ice above 10k. Monday the clouds finally broke and softened the ice from the previous night. Overall fun turns to be had on a solid base. Only had to hike 5 min before skinning from bunny flat.
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You won the preseason turns award. What great timing!!

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I'm looking at Lassen tomorrow and Shasta Monday. Anyone been up Lassen lately? Should I just do Shasta both days?

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I'm looking at Lassen tomorrow and Shasta Monday. Anyone been up Lassen lately? Should I just do Shasta both days?

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Seems like kinda bad timing for weather: http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick...2#.WDEADPkrLIU

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Seems like kinda bad timing for weather: http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick...2#.WDEADPkrLIU

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Monday doesn't seem too bad other than cold, the wind definitely dies down.

Thinking about a trip this weekend to Shasta... has anyone gone out recently? Looks like they could see a little snow mid week and then some clearing into the weekend... obviously wind will be a factor... but, looks like it could be a decent weekend to get the van up there for a few days of touring out of Bunny Flat.

I was up there for a quick lap with the dogs on Thanksgiving day, and it was awesome. Legit foot+ of great pow, coverage great at the parking lot. Tons of people out with kids sledding right at the lot. People were also out on snowmos. Then over the weekend it got dumped on again. I drove up to the lot on Monday night on the way back home, and it was full-on winter up there. Tons of coverage at the Bunny Flat lot, snow down to the lower gate on the road. Of course the winds were nuking in the storms so not sure how it is up above treeline. Bet you could get in some good pow turns down low though.

Pic from Thanksgiving day:

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On a side note, while I was out there with the dogs I lost my Garmin Alpha GPS tracker that I use for the dogs. So if anyone finds one of these up there please PM me:

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Went out to Lassen on Sun. Earlier last week the forecast looked really good for the storm, but then it warmed up and it ended up raining really high. But there was some snow afterward so not all was lost. It wasn't nipple-deep pow, but it was fun out there (and it was nice to actually be able to see!).

We went out towards Mt. Diller. Climbed the south chute (upper right in this pic). There was already a booter in there, from maybe Fri?

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Once in the chute itself it became pretty solid, made things interesting on the way down. Also it was sunny and the warming rocks started sending down a bunch of ice chunks as they peeled off. Yay.

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Lots of ice chunk waterfalls off this wall:

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Near the top, mostly icy.

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Snow on the north side didn't look that good either. Nice views though! Looking off towards Lassen itself:

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And the other way:

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Dropping! Brokeoff in the background. This would be a really fun line in pow, but I doubt it sees conditions like that very often. It's probably usually like how it was when we rode it, which was mostly hard and... "noisy". :)

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We then did some short laps by a cool feature that had some nice terrain and held some of the best snow of the day.

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It was crazy how it had rained a bunch and then got cold, so all the trees were essentially encased in solid ice.

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Random line there that probably never fills in enough to do, but would be sweet if it did:

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Another fun line:

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Fun day, and there was coverage on the road all the way back to the lot.

Sweet

doesn't everyone just wait til spring to go to L*ss*n. ;)

when "winter" is in your last name, you don't :) - JimW dropping
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Nice TR!

One of my favorite parts of going to Chico state years ago was that I was 55 minutes door to door to the south entrance of LNP. One of the most under utilized National parks IMO. Thanks for the pics and stoke!

Sunrise on Mt Shasta Christmas Morning

Conditions are um DEEP

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Thanks for that great shot. Merry Christmas!

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Grey Butte??