Island Park Snow Conditions (21-22 season)

[IDspud]

Snow settled today where we were, flurries in the air all day but not amounting to anything, hop in truck and drive off type coverage on it when we got back to lot.

 

[christopher]

Today..

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[christopher]

This weekend should be some GREAT RIDING GUYS!!

 

[ryanjeri]

Going to be a cold one -15 currently

 

[IDspud]

One of my propane bottles is frozen. No meadow racing today.?

 

[Pinchecharlie]

Balmy 1° here in bozeman

 

[BirdmanID]

Was up yesterday out on the yale-kilgore road. We had a great day of riding, deeper and firmer snow than we expected. Still some "light bumps" under the snow in places, but still better than expected!

 

[IDspud]

Same area Friday, my boy gently rubbed his track off the rear axle jumping and landing on a log. Awesome snow. No carnage luckily.

 

[IDspud]

Few hours in cabin and got the bottle making vapor again. Gorgeous day out today.

 

[christopher]

Tell ya what.
I LOVE forecasts like this.

 

[christopher]

GET OUT SOON WHILE YOU CAN.
Looks like we are in for a DRY WARM SPELL

 

[christopher]

Island park didn’t fail to deliver this weekend. Found some good snow once again!!!


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[christopher]

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[christopher]

Much to my surprise we found some half decent snow today

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[Pinchecharlie]

Hey Christopher how's things down there? I really wanna go for a ride !

 

[christopher]

Hey Christopher how's things down there? I really wanna go for a ride !

Spent the day on the mountain today.
First day of Breakin on my new 2022 Turbo Expert.

The snow is a MIXED BAG.

Island Park in general is WELL TRACKED OUT.
BUT.

If you are willing to GET OFF THE BEATEN PATH and do a little back country riding there is GOOD SNOW to be had.

This is a good example.
We were running down a drainage that just beyond that sled in the background turned into a nasty dropoff.
You can see the snow on the left and right of our tracks is just fine.
I would guess there was 4 inches of reasonably "fresh" snow on a TERRIFIC base pretty much everywhere we rode in the 8,000ft range today.





There is MASSIVE HOAR FROST all over the place up high.
Glad I didn't see any of it on serious slopes, as it would be an AVY NIGHTMARE, but around 3:00pm this afternoon the sun hit that Hoarfrost and all of the snow turned into DIAMONDS.

It was SPECTACULAR to see..

I would have no issues with going right back up for another day.

That said.

The snow forecast is HORRIBLE right now!!
I mean SUPER UGLY for the next 10 days.

 

[christopher]

US National Weather Service Pocatello Idaho​

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The snowpack is still looking good, even though it hasn't snowed significantly in a over a week. We are still above normal for the year (see attached). The next week doesn't look that promising for snow, neither does the 8 to 14 day outlook.
The 3 to 4 week outlook is promising for snow to return.

Here are a few recent news articles with quotes from our Service Hydrologist, Link Crawford, on the current snow status and outlook.
https://localnews8.com/.../recent-snowfall-having.../
https://www.news-journal.com/.../article_52c3c221-ef7e...

 

[christopher]

Pretty good representation of what we found yesterday in Island Park.
Open Public Areas, HEAVILY TRACKED OUT.
Everything else, pretty much PRISTINE

Island Park Jan 15th 2022

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[Pinchecharlie]

I rode up taylor and it was awesome (for begginer and me and sun) think a good rider could charge trees and steep stuff all day long...