Lassen / Shasta Conditions Anyone?

[Lee Murian]

Yup, was pretty good on 10.18 and today should be fun too and then maybe a corn cycle for the weekend.

[Norseman]

^ Nice, man!

[Zeedashbo]

Fkna. Amazed none of my pnw brethren made the 12hr drive. Looks totally worth it to me

[gimpy]

Nice handle lee
Good stuff

And so the jones begins......

[gimpy]

Skiing right to the car at bunny
Corn cycling already and mostly smooth. Ne side looks sick from 89. Someone go check it out n report if road is in good shape after storm.
Good seein ya j!

[lazyasian]

Skied up at Brewer Creek today. Snow on the road from about 3mi from the trailhead and impassable 1mi before due to a log across the road and massive washout divot.

We found a handful of decent windbuff turns on more northerly facing aspects but most of what we saw was either windstripped down to tooth-chattering slickness or a nice crust. The best turns of the day were actually on the really mellow slopes below about 8500ft where they had undergone a mini corn cycle.

Snow coverage was great though, only hit one or two small rocks on the descent down to the car at 7000.

[gimpy]

Hah!!! Asked and received
Well done lazy
Sure looked sexy from afar
We had a brief period where the summit cloud cap broke and revealed the trinities and upper casaval looking smooth and sweet after some sun kissing.

[jibmaster]

[QUOTE=lazyasian;4834858]Skied up at Brewer Creek today. Snow on the road from about 3mi from the trailhead and impassable 1mi before due to a log across the road and massive washout divot. /QUOTE]

Should've taken a right and headed to the Gravel Creek TH and visited Clitoris Falls.

[sruffian]

Skied from bunny yesterday (sat 10/22). Up to helen lake. Good coverage, never softened up due to clouds though. Sufficient cover back to the trailhead but was melting fast.

Forecasts keep getting dialed back on precip amounts for next go-round, but a refresher on top of this base might make next weekend decent if there's a window

[BGnight]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and predict that May/June will be good.

[smitchell333]

Anyone up there this weekend?

Fall weekend getaway ??

[Skiwald]

Anyone up there this weekend?

Fall weekend getaway ??

Heading up from nlake early sat - sun or mon depending on how conditions are.

[jskierpx]

It sounds like it snowed a bunch up there, but wondering if there is skiing from bunny flat at the moment? Looking at heading up Saturday-Monday.


http://snowbrains.com/mt-shasta-ca-c...ely-fing-epic/

[TEXASS]

As of Oct 21. Yes. You can ski from Helen to Bunny Flat

[jimw]

How would you know?

But yeah, there was just barely enough coverage to go all the way to/from the lot that weekend. Coverage was only thin near the lot, it was FAT up high. I assumed it would be a lot deeper after this latest big dump, and it probably is, but interestingly the Shasta cam images look about the same as after the first storm, I would have expected it to be even more white. But it's still pretty damn white. If there's any dry hiking it isn't gonna be much. You should go and report back!

[sruffian]

There should be coverage to bunny flat. Definitely was two weeks ago before this storm (which finished colder than the previous one). Also shasta avalanche refers to skiing down to bunny as of monday - http://shastaavalanche.org/overall-c...ing-conditions

[lazyasian]

Skinned from the lot at Bunny yesterday (11/1). Plenty of snow on the ground there to ski down at the end of the day, though it'll be melting fast with the high temps and sun this week. Snow was blower in the morning below Helen. Started to get a bit heavy by the afternoon and was crusting up by the evening down low. Above Helen was chalky windbuff but I'm not sure how well it'll hold into the weekend with the high snow levels.

[gnarbro365]

The mt shasta avalanche center website has a couple of different weather site links at different elevations. The sand flat station was reporting around 7 inches a few days aai

[jskierpx]

The new plan is to head up Sunday, ski Monday, come home Tuesday in hopes to get sun and no wind due to this "storm" coming in Sat-Sun. Hopefully this plan will work...being exposed up on Shasta in wind, or snow, or clouds, or any weather for that matter, can be rugged

[Skiwald]

The new plan is to head up Sunday, ski Monday, come home Tuesday in hopes to get sun and no wind due to this "storm" coming in Sat-Sun. Hopefully this plan will work...being exposed up on Shasta in wind, or snow, or clouds, or any weather for that matter, can be rugged

Heading up there from tahoe tomorrow. Plans to ski sun,mon. We'll be camped out at bunny flats in a cab over on a grey silverado.

[jskierpx]

Copy that.

This is worth a watch too-

https://youtu.be/Ce8dIbDzs_E

[tahoearmada]

Any Lassen beta?
Curious where the snow line is...

[sruffian]

Lassen looked fat from 89 north of the park on Saturday, coming back from Shasta.

Snow on the ground at the south entrance (~7k ft iirc)
https://www.nps.gov/lavo/learn/photo...ia/webcams.htm

[SchralphMacchio]

Friends skied there over the weekend. Reported that Saturday was good on East faces, skinnable from South Visitor's center with the road skiable on the way back. With the cloud greenhousing on Sunday the skiing was less inspiring (getting soggy/crusty) and the exit skiing on the road was spotty. With the forecast for this week it seems out of play for a little while, depending on desperation level of course.

[jskierpx]

We headed to Brewer Creek area to see where snow line was and explore that side of the mountain. We made it in on the road to below the last switchback where snow combined with a wash out forced us to park. It was only a 1 mile skin to the trailhead bathroom area. About 6-12" base at the Brewer Creek Trail Head, and the snowpack grows exponentially as you start climbing from there. Super impressive early November snowpack up high. No rock poking through and consistent coverage. We ski'd yesterday, and a cloudy day turned bluebird and warm and then cloudy and cold again. High pressure has probably set in by now. We made it up to around 10,300' on the Hotlum-Wintum area until we noticed the skiing above us was going to be a terrible as that below us! We had about 1,000' of icy glazed doughnut variable snow, followed by 1,000' of absolutely 10/10 dreamy corn bliss, and then the runout to snow line was pretty soggy but uneventful.

Great to be out on the skis and in the grandeur of Shasta!

Also FWIW we called 5th season staff on the way in, and per their update, Bunny Flat is burned out with a .5-1 mile hike to snow line from the car.

Brewer Creek Road access beta valid 11/08/2016