Observer
Tony Bird
Keep me anonymous if published
no
Location (general area)
Mt. Pinos summit area
Latitude
Longitude
Date (yyyymmdd)
2022/3/22
Time
all day
Road conditions to area
Bare
Temperature
upper 50s
Sky
clear (no clouds)
Wind speed
Light (1-16mph Flags/twigs in motion)
Wind direction
not observed
Wind direction in degrees
Slope aspect
not observed
Aspect in degrees
Slope angle
20-40
Elevation
8800
Snow depth
0-5 ft
Boot/ Ski penetration
Brief description
Comment
Mt. Pinos had some benefit from last weekend's brief storm, including enough coverage in the forest to skin directly up-ridge from the parking area. I had the mountain to myself on Tuesday, apart from a coyote which dropped into the Second Meadow drainage just ahead of me and criss-crossed it like a happy hunting ground. Paw pen for the coyote was about an inch, and it leaped across gullies I had to traverse carefully on ski. Boot pen got to be more than a foot, after which I went to skins.
This drainage is enticing, and I determined to explore it further, but encountered only a dense growth of huge white fir and attendant deadfall. Snow depth up to five feet. Three more feet might make it skiable. You keep seeing white patches below, but they don't continue very far.
Best run of the day was off the microwave tower summit down this drainage to its first "platform". The second platform is reached with steeper skiing, and beyond that, fergeddaboutit.
Pleasant spring day, however, and corn conditions in most places.
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Yes I would like this observation Published
Tony Bird
Keep me anonymous if published
no
Location (general area)
Mt. Pinos summit area
Latitude
Longitude
Date (yyyymmdd)
2022/3/22
Time
all day
Road conditions to area
Bare
Temperature
upper 50s
Sky
clear (no clouds)
Wind speed
Light (1-16mph Flags/twigs in motion)
Wind direction
not observed
Wind direction in degrees
Slope aspect
not observed
Aspect in degrees
Slope angle
20-40
Elevation
8800
Snow depth
0-5 ft
Boot/ Ski penetration
Brief description
Comment
Mt. Pinos had some benefit from last weekend's brief storm, including enough coverage in the forest to skin directly up-ridge from the parking area. I had the mountain to myself on Tuesday, apart from a coyote which dropped into the Second Meadow drainage just ahead of me and criss-crossed it like a happy hunting ground. Paw pen for the coyote was about an inch, and it leaped across gullies I had to traverse carefully on ski. Boot pen got to be more than a foot, after which I went to skins.
This drainage is enticing, and I determined to explore it further, but encountered only a dense growth of huge white fir and attendant deadfall. Snow depth up to five feet. Three more feet might make it skiable. You keep seeing white patches below, but they don't continue very far.
Best run of the day was off the microwave tower summit down this drainage to its first "platform". The second platform is reached with steeper skiing, and beyond that, fergeddaboutit.
Pleasant spring day, however, and corn conditions in most places.
Publish this observation
Yes I would like this observation Published
