SNOW IN THE SNOWIES?
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Ritfire73
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BEST BET IS TO HEAD UP TO ALPINE OR PINEDALE. THEY HAVE GOT SNOW FOR THE LAST FEW DAYS. SNO TEL SAYS BLIND BULL GOT 28 OF NEW SNOW.
We were up last Friday and Saturday the 13th and 14th. The first day we worked across the front side and looped around to the back side near lake marie. Stayed south of NO and worked our way back across the back side of widow and came back through the gap to the truck. Yeah green rock and libby flats sucked and well...the whole front side sucked for that matter. But hell, I'm from Iowa so we are used to that kind of crap. Back side of widow wasn't too bad though.
Second day was much different.
We said forget the front side trails and jumped off trail right at green rock. Shot north working our way somewhat parallel to O. Crossed over O about a mile north of NO. Worked northwest from there and found and crossed K right where it loops to the northwest. Went north from there a mile or so before starting to loop back to the west and then south. Crossed back over K and then X. Took X sill it turns west and then jumped off and shot south to N ending up at Quealy hut. We ran into a group at the warming hut that was waiting for Search and Rescue with a woman with a broken arm. Being an EMT, I stopped in and checked on her and stayed till rescue got there(hope she is doing well). By then it was getting pretty dark so we ended up just heading back across the front side to get back to green rock.
The sleds we saw at quealy were the ONLY other sleds we saw all day other than when unloading and we didn't see a single new track anywhere we went and very few old tracks either. Found plenty of hood deep powder in the trees. A few landmines here and there but those areas were pretty easy to spot. For the most part...miles and miles of untracked fun in the trees! So like I said...very different from the first day and the front side!
Sorr for the long post! Lol. Just thought i'd let everyone know...the fluffy fun stuff is there. You just have to look for it!
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Second day was much different.
We said forget the front side trails and jumped off trail right at green rock. Shot north working our way somewhat parallel to O. Crossed over O about a mile north of NO. Worked northwest from there and found and crossed K right where it loops to the northwest. Went north from there a mile or so before starting to loop back to the west and then south. Crossed back over K and then X. Took X sill it turns west and then jumped off and shot south to N ending up at Quealy hut. We ran into a group at the warming hut that was waiting for Search and Rescue with a woman with a broken arm. Being an EMT, I stopped in and checked on her and stayed till rescue got there(hope she is doing well). By then it was getting pretty dark so we ended up just heading back across the front side to get back to green rock. The sleds we saw at quealy were the ONLY other sleds we saw all day other than when unloading and we didn't see a single new track anywhere we went and very few old tracks either. Found plenty of hood deep powder in the trees. A few landmines here and there but those areas were pretty easy to spot. For the most part...miles and miles of untracked fun in the trees! So like I said...very different from the first day and the front side!
Sorr for the long post! Lol. Just thought i'd let everyone know...the fluffy fun stuff is there. You just have to look for it!
Boone
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Ritfire73
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Rode out of Albany today. Found some good snow SOUTH... much to my suprise. We found a few places where the snow was 8 to 10 inches. One meadow was bumber deep. Get off the main trails and you can find plenty of fun. On our way out it was snowing. Coming down at a fairly good rate!!
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Rode out of Albany 01/23/12. Some areas going up han no snow because of wind. But get up into Nelson and above got stuck a couple times, had a great day in the deep and sunshine. Much better than a week ago. Carefull for AVYS.
Rode out of Albany 01/23/12. Some areas going up han no snow because of wind. But get up into Nelson and above got stuck a couple times, had a great day in the deep and sunshine. Much better than a week ago. Carefull for AVYS.
snow?
Snow is light but Sunday and Mon were good powder days
Snow is light but Sunday and Mon were good powder days
The snow is great, bumper deep most places and deeper in the more protected places. No need to worry about snow conditions. I think he is trying to tell you to pay for snow conditions. It's been snowing a little every day for a week and it's starting to get a good base over about 3-4 feet of sugar.
Very well put.
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