GLADING BEST PRACTICES: Big Trees, Should they Stay or Should they Go?

[sparkletarte.]

cut most of the shnarbs making sure no small stumps are more than 1.25-1.5m high (or a bit lower whatever your snowpack usually is by now)
open up a few hallways and features/cliffs
leave it tight at the top of most opened up areas to filter out people

[Angle Parking]

Schnarb, stumps, and especially branches are an issue on 9.

[abraham]

Both of those options look pretty nice

[Angle Parking]

Both of those options look pretty nice

Yep, they're both pretty cool. 9 could be better though and it seems worthwhile to make it better in my mind. Snow quality is just so much better on 9a. Not to mention the fact that 3 tracks and 9 is done as opposed to 9a which can support a solid 6 or 7. It's a really good dad spot. Minutes from town. I leave my house at 7 and I'm back home with the fam at 10:30 with a decent lap under my belt. The skin is a robust 2+ hours so that deters most people. Sled-heads frequent the area despite it's non motorized designation but it's pretty easy to get the early jump on those guys. I'm thinkin' Mr. Husky and his good pal Mr. Stihl might be heading up that way next summer.

[XXX-er]

you been up there already , I'm betting the snow was ok after you get above the gravel pit and first switch back?

I spooned one of them trees at the top of 9A when my Rad heel blew up

1/2 a meter of pow with a boot strapped to the ski was a rather tedious ski-out

edit: you gona hike a saw & gear in for 2hrs really?

[neufox47]

Those trees look pretty open to me. Maybe thin some of the clusters to allow more paths through. But I'm no expert.

[XXX-er]

those runs are pretty open, personaly I just see random trees left standing I don't see that much difference between 9 and 9A , I think the Telkwa fire rangers cut 9 and 9A between fighting fires, all the other runs at the Hankin Evelyn area had every tree taken down by paid fallers

if the equipment fails in mid turn maybe you hit a tree which is why you often hear me rag on the rad1 eh?

[Angle Parking]

Those trees look pretty open to me. Maybe thin some of the clusters to allow more paths through. But I'm no expert.

Thinning out the clusters or otherwise strategically removing trees is the way to go.

[S.B.]

Bump

[shroom]

enough with the bumps jong

[XCextreme]

UPDATE

After some semi scientific research (read: skiing) the problem appears to be snow interception from some very wide branch extensions on the run that serves largely as an uptrack. If the snow depth allows some limbing should be all thats needed to make run 9 deep again.

[gwat]

UPDATE

After some semi scientific research (read: skiing) the problem appears to be snow interception from some very wide branch extensions on the run that serves largely as an uptrack.

Duh. Its taken you five years to figure this out?
We tried to tell you earlier in this thread. Specifically post #17 along with some others.
Good luck.