Hogs Back Tour

Quick report

irismarika16 · Mar 26, 2025 · Banff Yoho Kootenay

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Quick report

Weather
cloudy, sunny, stormy
Ride Type
steepSlopes, alpineSlopes, mellowSlopes, openTrees, convexSlopes
Riding Quality
ok
Snow Conditions
wet, crusty, heavy

Did runs on both the west side on Picnic and on east side of Hogs Back on Grand Couloir. Attempted to go down bacon but skinned back up because top of chute had a lot of exposed rock. Snowed intermittently all day, accumulated maybe an inch. Also partly sunny intermittently. Snow was heavy, wet, sticky. Had to wax skins and scrape ice build up from bottoms/edges of skis. Caused one very tiny sluff when skiing down, snow made lots of pinwheels/rollers on first run around 2pm. Thin layer on top of ice. Second run at 5pm snow was wetter/heavier.