18/19 Ski Season - Day 1

November 16, 2018

With unusually dry and warm weather on the coast, ski season is a bit delayed.

It took some driving and some walking, but we found winter hiding up high in the coast range...in a narrow band above 1700/1800m.

Despite the slim snow depth, the skiing was enjoyable and our ski bases lived to ski another day.

Brandywine Mountain

• We parked at the Metal Dome junction and walked, other brave truck driving skiers went right to the end of the road.
• Walked with skis on our backs up the trail to the meadow before donning our trusty skis
• Snow depth remains very thin until above 1600.
• The high point was 1800m with 80cm of snow. Suspect more (100 - 110cm?) on the glaciers.
• Glacier would require a lot of respect with this thin amount of snowpack covering the open crevasses exposed from the summer*

Fun day in the mountains and even a few good turns!