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2024-03-29 at 19:57 - comment by Ray Yong
Hey, we were there, too. We just did Watridge to the bridge. I thought conditions were just great. I guess the groomer did Watridge first yesterday, so it was covered with > 10 cm of fresh snow, so the tracks were skier set in the machine trail. Snow is light and fluffy.
I had a relatively fresh layer of glide on my skin skis, so I didn't have any problems with sticking. My wife was on waxless without any glide and was less than happy during the return around 1400. She had a lot of problems with both catch and release, and icing. Temperature was -6 late in the morning, and the same when we left mid-afternoon.
It was snowing and cloudy most of the time we were there, but when the sun did come out, it quickly affected the snow. Not in a good way.
Walkers and dogs did a number on the first part of the Watridge trail (from the start to the Ursa junction), but there was enough snow that us skiing over the damage should be good enough to fix it. Until the next people come along...
All in all, a really nice time in excellent conditions. It should be great skiing there Saturday!
Watridge Lake Trail
Not much to see at the lake today!
But the Spray River is always pretty.
Mount Shark, fresh grooming... under sticky snow
Report Submitted by ChrisL
(trip) Date: Friday Mar 29, 2024
Submitted: Friday Mar 29, 2024 at 17:40
Participants:
Marianne
Chris
Discussion:
We were excited to go skiing at Mt Shark seeing that 85% was groomed overnight. We did Virgo to Pegasus, Hercules, Watridge down to the bridge and back up to the parking lot. It snowed a lot and kept coming, so it wasn't what we expected. It was fine for the most part, but only Virgo was freshly groomed. Everything else was snow-covered and skier tracked. Coming back up from the bridge was a mess as snow started being very sticky.
Total distance: 16.67 Km
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