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Sunny Halloween Skiing at Shovelnose Creek! · Saturday, October 30th, 2021
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Start: Saturday, Oct. 30th, 7:00 am
End: Saturday, Oct. 30th, 8:00 pm
Description:
With a monster storm hammering the mountains with 50-100cm of snow this week, and beautiful clear weather forecasted for the weekend, you could be in for some of the best October turns of your life!
The plan is to head up the Shovelnose Creek FSR then hike/skin to a nice alpine bowl on the west side of the Squamish-Cheakamus Divide just south of the impressive Mount Fee. This bowl offers plenty of terrain for intermediate skiing and also some steeper options if we can determine avalanche conditions are safe. We will park just above 1300m, and top out on the ridge just below 2000m. We will then be able to take as many laps down the bowl as we want until the end of the day. I am very confident that skiable snow extends at least down to 1600m, and possibly lower. If we are lucky it could go all the way to the car. The route to the top is only 3-4km with 600m of elevation gain, but it is not on a trail. This shouldn't be a big issue as we will mostly be on snow in open terrain, but the day will begin with a 0.5km bushwack through the trees which could prove challenging with low snow.
Here is a map: https://caltopo.com/m/9CTC0
Image from Matt Gunn trip report, 11/30/2019
This is backcountry skiing, so B/S/P and knowledge of how to use them is required. It is also early season, so you need to be willing to bootpack a bit to the snowline and suffer all the low snow obstacles and damage they might do to your equipment. For potential drivers, this is a 4WD road.
Posted: 2021-10-26 18:58:44
Last modified: 2021-10-29 17:21:07