Tree(well) Skiing

Quick report

Weather

warm, cloudy, stormy

Ride Type

mellowSlopes, denseTrees, openTrees

Stayed Away

convexSlopes, alpineSlopes

Riding Quality

good

Snow Conditions

powder, heavy

Avalanche Conditions

avalancheConditionTemp

Good day of tree skiing near Barkerville for New Years Eve. Very overcast and snowing heavily for part of the day, we toured up a creek and back down through the trees. It’s just starting to be good now, with 90-130 cm at around 1500m. 10 cm of dry powder over the Christmas storm snow makes for fun turns, but the dry snow below is still very weak/faceted. We didn’t see any signs of instability in the trees, but also weren’t able to see into any bigger terrain or higher than about 1500 m due to clouds and storms. Worth going out but watch for stumps!