Friday, January 31, 2014

Jan 31/14 - Wishing for more Snow

Howdy crew, well we only got about 5cm out of that last snowfall and in Limestone they were saying it had about 10cm of fresh. Heartbreak, Rain Gauge (the north bowl) are getting ridden out but not sure about going to the right bowl of Rain Gauge. Winds have ravaged those faces and everything outside of the trees is set up hard where exposed. Limestone is always fun - lots of traction there now with this weather. It got to -24 last night and was up to -16 by 9:30am. Got to -8 today and likely going to do a less extreme version of those temps again in the next 24 & 48hrs. No new snow on the horizon til Monday....get doing the snow dance you guys! We are going to go further back up into Barnes Ranch and see if we can find some softer deeper stuff there. Curt groomed the Flathead on Tues or Wed - sorry forgot which day....and our trail is really set up and getting rough. This wasn't enough new snow to fill in with the groomer and our groomer isn't heavy enough to take down the bumps even with the blade on front. Curt groomed it to Corbin but thinks we may need the bigger heavier groomer to break up what the heat from earlier last week caused. Its ride-able by all means but not floating along and our backs are getting old and so we are getting picky-er! LOL. We will see what we can do about that. Curt made some really good snow bridges on our trail and the one that wouldn't work he built a wooden bridge for and put it in place tonight. He also rebuilt the snow bridge going up into Barnes meadow. Cooper, Adam, Cody and Tanner all having fun...in the garage tonight doing some wrenching. Been some carnage with all three groups of guests. Our other guests are headed to the Crow Snow Riders poker run to the North Shelter from Atlas so if you want to have a fun social ride head up there tomorrow! Also a bit of etiquette in the alpine....do not hang with a group of sledders unless they invite you and absolutely do not climb above them or ride exactly where they are riding. There's lots of room out there guys and one group may not be interested in your climbs nor in digging you out if you cause an avalanche on them. The photo is from Limestone and it shows you what the snow depth looks like on open slopes. Cooper said you could still side hill and there were a few fluffy pockets of snow in sheltered spots but that its well set up under that 10cm of light stuff. Happy Hunting! Cheers - V

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