[NMCCSC] Crest Road Conditions

[Katie Cunningham via NMCCSCeGroup]

Thanks Dave.
I drove as far as Doc Longs Friday and Saturday. The crest road was much
clearer than a week ago!
  Friday afternoon I took my granddaughters up to go sledding and they had
deep powdery snow and good sliding.  The gate was closed and a lot of
people parked along the road but with clear paths for cars to get through
on both lanes.
Today I returned to  XC ski..  Again, we parked on the road easily..  The
gate was still closed but the bathrooms were open.  The snow had melted
considerably by noon when I arrived.
 It wasn't bad skiing up the trail but treacherous coming down because
rocks and sticks are showing now and the snow became icy.   We got "rained"
on by the trees and occasionally dumped on.
What a surprise!   It was still a glorious day to be out.
Katie C
I don't expect there to be good skiing at that level until it gets colder
again and we got substantial snow to cover the icy, slushy conditions.



On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 7:45 PM Dave Gabel via NMCCSCeGroup <
nmccscegroup at mailman.swcp.com> wrote:

> Although unable to ski today, I was able to drive the Crest Road at dusk
> to scout that situation out. Conditions can change quickly, but here's the
> situation at dusk on Saturday the 5th:
> The road is indeed plowed and sanded. It was visible asphalt for most of
> the drive - sometimes wet, sometimes dry. Temps above freezing.
> Treespring, Sandia Ski Resort and Capulin Snowplay Area were plowed (the
> gate to Capulin was open). Even at dusk that area was evident to have been
> a circus; still a few cars parked in the traffic lane making it a single
> lane road there.
>
> Closer to the Crest, where the road gets into some sharper turns, it was
> also reduced to a single lane at several of those sharp turns - simply due
> to the narrowness of the plow job.
>
> 10K parking was not plowed and inaccessible. Looked like maybe a few cars
> had parked right on the highway. No real room for shoulder parking there.
>
> Ellis parking was also not plowed and inaccessible. It looked like someone
> had taken their monster truck in, but no tracks indicating true parking
> traffic. A few cars were parked on the highway just outside Ellis even at
> the late hour I was by.
>
> At the Crest, the upper parking lot was not plowed. Some have driven up
> there anyway, but it looks like a AAA Roadside Assitance bait patch; deep,
> slushy snow with a steep ascent. I did not go up. The lower Crest lot was
> plowed two car widths wide. This means a few lucky arrivals can parallel
> park there (maybe ten?) and then back up to get out - that plowed patch on
> the lower lot narrows down to one car width near the far end with no
> turn-around.
>
> Dave
>
>
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