Cabin Fever

Apart from my third bout with the flu this season I, like many others, have been suffering cabin fever – trapped inside because of the continual rains and high winds. It was nice to get out today.

Much damage has been done to snow base and ‘top to bottom’ skiing is just holding together. Mind you there are only a couple of small stretches on Crackenback and High Noon that are in immediate danger of disappearing. Ski In Ski Out (as usual) and surprisingly a mid section of High Noon above the steep section that has turned to water. Regardless of this I enjoyed my runs down both super trails.

On the good side, the upper mountain is lovely. The northeast facing slopes softened early today and the off piste was delightful – in the right places. The Basin area and Central Spur offered firm off piste and/or softening off piste depending upon the aspect to the sun and any tree shadowing.

Certainly I was pleased to still be on my good wide boards. Skinny skis were not the call for the thin breakable crust off piste.

Looking up the Supertrail from Kosi Express

Lower Supertrail still good (mostly)

A sample of the rain damage on World Cup

Dropping into the Basin from Karels

Sponars (a light breakable crust on top of soft)

High Noon – skiers left is closed to the bottom

More fun around Sponars

There were other people out enjoying the untracked

The temperature in the village was warm at first while the wind chill factor up high was well below zero. According to the weather maps there is a large and very cold air mass heading towards us. If this does not drop away you can expect a full return to winter by Monday.

Currently it is cloudy and snow is forecast tonight.