Deep powder at Hanging Lake!
Quick reportkelly.h · Dec 21, 2025 · Brandywine
Quick report
- Weather
- cloudy, stormy
- Ride Type
- denseTrees, mellowSlopes, openTrees
- Stayed Away
- alpineSlopes
- Riding Quality
- amazing
- Snow Conditions
- deepPowder
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionSnow
First time exploring Olympic Park, wasn't disappointed. Thanks to the folks that did a mega job breaking trail! On uptrack ~1000m, some spots had ~80cm of new unconsolidated snow on top of a stiffer layer ~20cm (total ~100cm storm snow). Ski pen at 1600 N ~20-25cm. Boot pen mid-thigh. Random HSTs on the uptrack showed some of spatial variability, but mostly unconsolidated snow in varying amounts. Went to the steep treed slopes just before Hanging Lake with intent on checking out Gin Peak. Vis was poor in the upper treeline slopes with extremely flat lighting, so we settled on mellow north facing densely treed slopes above Hanging Lake for the first lap. Noticed no instabilities, nor slab formations so went back for a second lap and rode open treed slopes on the same face, slightly steeper rolls ~30-35 deg. On the ski out, snow got noticeably heavier around 1100-1200m, and just plain wet for the last 200m descent. Many creeks exposed, but send-able. 0C at the car.
Weather
- Wind Speed
- windSpeedLight
- Blowing Snow
- light
- Sky Condition
- overcast
- Snowfall Rate
- 1
- Wind Direction
- N
- New Snow24 Hours
- 80
- Temperature Trend
- steady
- Precipitation Type
- snow
light winds on open slopes above hanging lake, did not venture further