Touched By Wind

The big event this week was the opening of Sponars and Karels t-bars. You can now say the resort is fully open. Sure Ramshead is closed but pretty well everything else is open and that has made back country travel a lot easier. The snow fence on top of Karels has certainly been entertaining some high winds.

Last Wednesday was pretty ordinary in the resort and outside we skied on “egg shells” where breaking through was not pleasant. I missed yesterday as I was attending a funeral in Canberra. This morning was nice on the slopes.

Last weeks 50cm+ has been worked over and the 50cm+ I forecast this week has only seen around 15cm of fresh so far (by Sunday night I may just have been correct). When I heard the snow report this morning saying 15cms of fresh I really didn’t believe it. At Eagles Nest it may have been 10cm but certainly not 15. The base appeared to be frozen rain topped by creamy fresh snow. The results were interesting. After a couple down Crackenback I decided to give the Basin & Karels a try. There I found the 15cm and yummy it was without the tell tale frozen under layer.

Redlands Cup on Wednesday

Jax glad to be on Karels T-bar

Top of Karels

Marion inspects the blown-out snow fence

Outback on a misty sort of Wednesday

First 'hairy' tracks to DHG already taken

Looking across Kareela Face to Cannonball today

Freshies on Karels this morning

Jax found a deep Ingrid in the flat light out back

Tobogganing at DHG - definitely an extreme sport

The off piste and back country continues to improve as the base depth increases.

We have had snow flurries all day and Sunday/Monday looks like a BIG dump and school holidays will be over for a few months.

It is currently snowing in the village.