BREWSTER CREEK BEYOND FATIGUE PASS JUNCTION- snow reconnaissance ski mission
Trip date: Saturday Nov 26, 2022
Submitted by DEMOCRATIZE AB
Particpants:
A champion to legalize real democracy on 205cm BC 59 metal edge rock skis with new manual bindings.
Discussion:
The Healy Creek trail from Sunshine Road has been double snowmobile packed. Conditions range in some spots from poor to good. The first 75 meters of the trail is poor and also under some trees. Rain has made a pretty good crust which makes for a reasonable snow base. The snow was fast with V40 Swix blue wax. Grip varied. With 7 cm of new wet snow blanketing the trail in the future, the skiing will be generally good to very good and the trail will be ready for tracksetting.
The Brewster Creek trail is in poor to fair shape. I broke trail beyond the Fatigue Pass Junction. It would be smart for the Sundance Lodge owners to pack the trail with snowmobiles as soon as possible. I side stepped most of the steep hills and double skier tracked the trail in some places to create a snow base. With 7cm of new wet snow, the ski trail will be in fairly good to very good condition.
The snow on the trail gets better and deeper beyond Fatigue Pass Junction.
At about 8:30pm the temperature was -3c at Sundance Lodge. The crusty snow base has a total depth of around 20cm. Rock rock rocking in the rocking chair at night was a pleasure at the Lodge.
I picked up my skis from a ski shop on the way out of town. I had new manual Rottefella bindings put on the skis. When I got to Brewster Creek parking lot I noticed a slight gap under the plastic plate of my bindings. I am not a mounting expert but that did not seem right to me. Water can get in the gap and freeze, potentially frost wedging my screws out of my bindings. Does anyone know if this will occur? Let me know if you know.