What's the story with Alaska weather conditions? I've heard rumors that it's been a lousy winter.
Any idea what conditions are like in the Chugach right now?
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What's the story with Alaska weather conditions? I've heard rumors that it's been a lousy winter.
Any idea what conditions are like in the Chugach right now?
??? curious as well.
looks like they're supposed to start getting some snow this week.
I'm going to Canada.
the wind is fuking it all up, especially with (virtually) no fresh for a month or so. Snow should come late next week
I hope things get better. I'm scheduled for my first ever heli ski trip to AK the first week of April. It's going to suck if I have to ski terrible snow.
I would go somewhere else this year. It's windhammed all over.
super fun day out of 33 mile haines today. we skied pow. it was nice.
Leaving next Saturday what I see is 30% cahnce next week a couple of days. Last 5 years had trips planned and had bad conditions before I left and got dumped on right before or when I was there hope it happens this time first trip to AK.
heard from someone skiing out of haines, conditions have been good not great, looking good for some more snow tues/wed
6 more runs of pow today, a little snow in the forecast
bumping, because I heard conditions are still pretty brutal up there....any hope in sight?
Mostly cloudy with small pockets of "hope" in Haines:Quote:
Originally Posted by Maker
Regional Forecast for Haines Borough and Lynn Canal
Today
Snow showers diminishing in the afternoon. Little to no snow accumulation. Highs around 39. Northwest wind 10 to 15 mph.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy. Scattered rain and snow showers...diminishing late. Lows 20 to 26. Light winds becoming north 10 mph late.
Thursday
Mostly cloudy. Highs around 42. Southeast wind 10 to 15 mph.
Thursday Night
Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow. Lows 22 to 28. Southeast wind 10 to 15 mph.
Friday
Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain. Highs around 42. Southeast wind 10 to 15 mph.
Friday Night
Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow and rain. Lows around 26.
Saturday
Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain and snow. Highs around 44.
Saturday Night
Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow and rain. Lows around 27.
Sunday
Cloudy. Chance of rain. Highs around 44.
Sunday Night
Mostly cloudy. Chance of snow and rain. Lows around 29.
Monday
Rain likely. Highs around 44.
Monday Night
Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain. Lows around 33.
Tuesday
Mostly cloudy. Chance of rain and snow. Highs around 43.
well, i heard from guides up there that some of the burlier lines need about 10ft to fill in so it better get hammering....
the "burlier lines" aren't in the cards for those of us heading to PNH April 2 but those trees on top of the local hill in Cordova were green this morning and they're covered in white tonight. I'm just saying... there's still hope.
check out the webcam at www.thompsonpass.com
Haines is pretty good, everyhting else is shit.
Ask PowTron how good Haines was... if he even wants to talk about it. Might be better now, though. I know some snow fell.
They skied Light Meter yesterday in Haines so it's slowly coming along.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lindahl
I really need to get to Haines. It must be a magical place. Amazing how .2" of moisture made it pretty good while everything else is shit. We actually got more precipitation in the Cordova area and it bonded nicely with the ice and sastrugi. Thankfully that is all behind us now. We have gotten 8" fresh in the last two days at 1000'. This trend is suppossed to continue for the next few days with a bigger low coming middle of next week. These steady warm temps with gradual acumalatoin of snow might be the right remedy. I would expect by April you may be hoping for bluebird to enjoy the conditions. Noticed the pavement was dry in Haines today. Nobody bragging about their Blue Hole this year.Quote:
Haines is pretty good, everyhting else is shit.
Reporting heavy snow in Gwood today. Might pick up, but usually March is the heavy snow month and it tapers into April (last year being unusually rad).
definitely thigh deep and blower in the gut of hangover today. indy 500 was good too and got some really amazing turns on tee top client run too. supposed to have some precip coming too. haines is shaping up a little.
The snow in the Chugach is bunk this year. Worst snowfall totals for the resort in the past 20 years. Totally bullsh!t.
Oh, and AKgeo reported "heavy" snow in Girdwood... more like 9 inches and nothing else a week before or (so far) after. Bunk. Let's not pretend like 9 inches is a heavy snowfall. This year it is. It is pathetic.
Any body have word on Aleyeska lately. Considering booking a mid april trip. Is there going to be enough covereage or should I just wait until next year?
I just got off the phone with a bud in Aleyeska. Pretty dismal. Got some snow, but he said it set up stiff right now. He's hoping it goes blue so he can heli higher?
I was @ Alyeska last week for a few days of cat skiing & resort turns. Knowing about the high pressure over the area for the few weeks leading up to my trip, my expectations were pretty low. Resort turns were pretty good up top, sloppy toward the bottom. North Face skied good off Ragdoll, but was rough toward the bottom. Saturday cat day got cancelled but it snowed all day. Sunday was a go, and it was much better then I expected with about a foot of fresh on average due to how the winds loaded certain aspects. Pretty sure they got snow after we left. I think we got lucky with how good it was sunday compared to how bad it could have been.
I was at ALyeska last week with some friends and it was not as bad as I thought it would be. Knowing of the high pressures in the weeks leading up to my trip, I kept my expectaions in check. Skied the resort 4 days and the Cat 1 day. North Face skied ok on Ragdoll & Picnic gates and just ran groomers in the fog. Cat was cancelled saturday, but it ran sunday and we had some decent snow actually. Don't think they flew the 6 days I was there.
any update for the valdez area would be great. Offered a discounted trip to rendezvouse and want to see if i should pull the trigger.
Thanks
It's finally on. We went Monday. Great day good stability. Opened up some LZ's that hadn't been hit all year. Starting to be some crusts on sunnier slopes but was breaking down nicely during the day. Still looked a little thin on some of the bigger lines. I wouldn't of wanted to be the next group down OZ after we were done. Snowing a little bit today. sooner than later is the time to be here.
nice, woudl be cominig on sat flying sun- sat.
metorite have enought snow on it?
I don't know about Meteorite. We flew out of Cordova with PNH. I did talk to some guys that skied over from Valdez last week and they showed me a photo looked good. Meteorite is a little out of Rendevous's Blue Hole zone. Have fun hope the good weather continues.
How are conditions at Alyeska right now?
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Originally Posted by Like a Boss
Conditions at Alyeska are out of this world right now. They just got a ton of pow. I skied Thurs/Fri last week and got some of the best snow that I've seen there in my 7yrs skiing the area.
On Christmas Eve (Saturday) I skied Turnagain Pass with some friends. You could push a ski pole vertically down and bury it - without much force at all. My best day at Turnagain yet!
Anchorage just got dumped on. 15" in the last three days. HIT IT!