[NMCCSC] Amazing Christmas snow

[Barbara Forshay via NMCCSCeGroup]

Lovely!

On Thu, Dec 26, 2019, 8:28 AM Amy Mathis via NMCCSCeGroup <
nmccscegroup at mailman.swcp.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> Yesterday I took my BC 70mm Rossis and parked at the 10k trail.  The snow
> quality was wonderful!  I skied on Christmas Eve day and it was so hard
> packed I had to stick to the Service Road and wished I had skate skis.  I’d
> say there was about 5 inches of fresh snow for Christmas Day.  I skied up
> the 10k meadow to the Ellis parking lot, headed up Switchbacks to pick up
> the Survey trail.  It was great!  Ski tracks were already laid down but
> ended at the medallion tree.  After that I followed snow shoe tracks to the
> 10k North junction point.  I decided conditions were good enough to make
> the return back to the car via the 10k North trail.  There were no tracks
> and in a few places the trail was hard to find.  It was challenging for
> sure due to the steep descent on 10k before it curves to the south.  The
> remainder was all up hill but it was easy to dig in with my fish scales in
> most places.  I had lots of dead fall to negotiate and it was slow going
> but this is a loop I only do in fresh snow.   It felt like a true
> backcountry experience.
>
> Ski on!
> Amy Mathis
>
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