Oh so sticky

travisluvsbikes , Friday 21st February, 2025 10:15PM

Yesterdays fluff turned to today's mush. Freeze line rising to 1000 or so m's. Next to no wind. Variable recent snow amounts between 15 to 30 cms depending on elevation and aspect. Nice turns down 2nd knoll till meadow below, then board suck to valley bottom. Worse with further descent. Not a bad uptrack through no dogs but once up to dry snow the stickies to the skins was atrocious! Skin wax couldn't keep up. Hauling 5 lbs of snow per foot up hill. No whumphs or cracks, some wet ish sloughs in steeper slopes that could gain mass in terrain traps. Namely the first bit of No Socks skiers left. No slabs or shooting cracks. Top half of both Cats and no socks was nice riding. Than sole sucking sticky below that 1000 to 1100 m mark. Did hear big rumbles from Valley of Doom around 1 pm.