Grooming Report Dec 28 2022

Wednesday, December 28, 2022
6:15 a.m. 11:55 p.m.

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Dec 28, 2022 FSA Groomer’s Report

Current Conditions:

11cm new snow over night. 26cm new snow in the past 24 hours. 63cm in the past 7 days. Total snowpack heights between 167cm - 250cm in most riding areas right now. Total snowfall this season 433cm. Current temperature at 6am is -2.4 at cabin elevation with calm winds and -5C at ridgetop. Forecast for today mainly cloudy with a few flurries and snow showers, light to possible moderate accumulation. High near -1. The Elk Valley and Rocky Mountain ranges were under the effect of a warm and wet atmospheric river weather event early this week leaving moist snowpack conditions to ridgetop. Temperatures began cooling 24 hours ago with freezing lines generally around the Paige’s Draw or Rain Gauge N/S split elevations (about a third of the way up the mountain) yesterday and dropping to staging area elevations at the start of the grooming shift last night.

Special Notices:

Check the avalanche bulletin before you ride at www.avalanche.ca.
Highway conditions and alerts at drivebc.ca.
Update on pipeline construction / Morrissey closures HERE.

Grooming:

Corbin: OPEN. Groomed last night from staging area to Mt Corrigan avalanche paths.

Coal Creek: OPEN. Coal Creek Trail, Summit Trail, Doug Dean Trail groomed last night. Parking lot plowed. Bob Arnott Memorial Ride today - departing Coal Creek Staging Area at 10am and travelling up trail as a group to the Rolling Hills Cabin. Thank you FeraForm for supporting todays bonus grooming for this event.

Morrissey: CLOSED. Currently demobilizing post timber harvesting activities. Snowcats working to rebuild the snow road and fill in bridges but we are behind schedule due to recent weather. Upper trail is complete and groomed from the Summit / Doug Dean to the Wranglers Cabin and down to the FWA gate as of Dec 28th. FSA will not be grooming the McEvoy or Pipeline this winter as the areas remain CLOSED for pipeline construction. Please see the map and further details HERE.

Hartley: OPEN. The first scheduled groom is behind a few days due to extreme cold weather last week.

Ram: OPEN. No grooming. Cabin open. The Lodgepole FSR will be plowed from the lower Morrissey parking lot to the Flathead this winter for timber harvesting. Expect heavy industrial traffic at all times. There is excellent information regarding radio call up/down procedures, channel maps and more HERE.

GET ON THE SNOW FASTER THIS SEASON! PURCHASE YOUR MEMBERSHIP OR DAY TICKETS ONLINE IN ADVANCE.