ADK BC Conditions

If anybody was looking for a real report on the Thunderbolt, here it is: https://www.facebook.com/thunderboltskirunners/videos/1208482025986578/

I have to run over to Boston next week - thought I'd check in with these guys, I think I'll pass.

I decided to do a short tour this morning on the ridge behind my place. There is an old logging road that leads to a ridge, I use to keep this well cleared but haven't chain sawed in there in a few years so there was a lot of blow down and trees bent by the icy storms. As I had suspect it was 3" of this AMs fresh on top of a crust from last weeks rain. It was a nice tour and skin up the ridge but the turns were difficult on the way down, lots of unweighting and jetting to stay on top of the crust.

(weird those pics are right side up on my droid)

Harvey wrote

(weird those pics are right side up on my droid)

They were taken in the right orientation - but they got rotated somehow.

Snow in the backcountry is crazy deep. Did some touring and had to turn back - breaking trail was exhausting. I got only a mile in and it took over an hour. Snow was almost up to my knees. When I stopped to put on skins I sunk in above my knees. I turned around and aborted the tour. The ski out over my tracks was pretty good.

I may have to call in BRLKED to help me track out our trails.

Having a good track will make things quite nice.

Knee+ deep on sections not skied, had to kick down some fairly steep slopes on Rabbit Pond that were not broken.

Harvey wrote

I may have to call in BRLKED to help me track out our trails.

Ohhhh, so now you want somebody to break the trails...what happened to "those are my trails, please don't ski the fresh"

Lol chocolate cake

Darkside Shaman wrote

Ohhhh, so now you want somebody to break the trails...what happened to "those are my trails, please don't ski the fresh"

hahahaha. Good point.  

BRLKED wrote

Knee+ deep on sections not skied, had to kick down some fairly steep slopes on Rabbit Pond that were not broken.

How much of Rabbit Pond is broken out now? For that matter, how much of Raymond Brook is broken out?

It won’t be long now. Conditions for low angle touring is looking good but stream crossings are open. Choose your tour wisely.

BRLKED- Any reports from your neck of the woods?

Garnet Hill back open , woods are thin not much snow on Monday maybe 8 or so.

Thanks for the report!

BRLKED wrote

Garnet Hill back open , woods are thin not much snow on Monday maybe 8 or so.

The XC and BC report formerly on the Jackrabbittrail.org website has been moved to the Barkeater Trails Alliance (BETA) website. Same range of conditions for the groomed centers, Jackrabbit Trail, and selected backcountry destinations. Its good source of snow conditions in the High Peaks/Lake Placid region; I find it pretty useful. I get snow conditions for other regions in the Adirondacks from snowmobile and ski area websites.

Here's the new link: https://www.betatrails.org/conditions.

Read that Vermont BC has deep snow conditions, tree wells are pretty dangerous. I have not seen those depths here yet but I also have not gone high up yet this year.