SUNDANCE LODGE ++
Trip date: Thursday Dec 28, 2023
Submitted by DEMOCRATIZE AB
Particpants:
A champion for the legalization or real democracy skiing on light green wax which provide very good glide and grip.
Discussion:
The Sunshine Road XC skiing parking lot was over populated and beyond full capacity with downhill skiers parking in the lot and all over the road. People were pretty pissed they had to line up 20 minutes for a bus to line up for the gondola.
Healy Creek trail lost a lot of snow in the last couple of weeks. Skiing was fair to good with some icy sections and thin snow under some trees exposing some avoidable rocks. The recent rain and heat made the conditions seem like the first or second week of April. I have never seen a melt down like this at this time of year on the Healy Creek trail. It will take 10cm of new wet snow and packing to make it good overall. I walked the first 150 meters of trail. The snow speed was fairly fast.
The Brewster Creek trail had some significant melting as well for the first couple of kilometers or so. Conditions are fair to very good on a multi species tracked skier trail with 6 cm of new crusty snow since the last skiers skied up. Conditions improved further up with nice silky snow under the crust. There are a 1/2 dozen trees fallen across the trail, some which need ducking under.
Beyond Sundance Lodge the trail breaking was relatively easy with ankle deep ski penetration. Fairly fast snow to pounce on.
At Sundance Lodge the temperature was -4C after the sun was well down.