Het volgende berichtje ontvingen wij op 9 oktober 2007 van onze vriend en berggids Jorg Wilz uit Canada, die een paar dagen daarvoor nog bij ons logeerde:

Hi Everyone:
Came home from my fall Europe stint two days ago to rather wintery conditions.....snow line is about 300 meters above town level in Canmore on the Northern aspects. Here is the first skiing conditions report for the Selkirks around Revelstoke for the season!
 
Hope to see you soon!
 
Cheers,
 
Jorg

From: Public Mountain Conditions Report
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 5:58 PM
To: ACMG Mountain Conditions Report
Subject: [MCR] Ski Conditions - Oct 8 McRae Peak, Selkirks

Hi Folks,

Hard to believe but its true, there is great early season skiing in the Selkirks.  Up on McRae Peak today, parked at 5700 ft (couldn’t quite make it to the parking lot proper), 0c at 8am, 30-50cm of HS.  Skied car to car without, remarkably, hitting wood or stone.

The HS around 7000ft is a healthy 1m.  5cm of HN overlying 1cm knife hard rain crust overlying 20cm of 1 finger plus settling snow that overlies around 70cm of pencil hard rounds to ground.  Dry for the top 15cm, then moist for the rest of the pack.  

The alpine is smooth (see pics) and carries very well. Ski pen was about 5cm, offered great skiing in the open – by the time we were heading home (around noon) the heat was starting to get at the snowpack in the trees and it was isothermal in many areas so it required some careful skiing.

Its hot here in Revelstoke today (around 12degrees at 3pm) so I don’t know if I’d be rushing back up there right now, but the pocket glacier up there looked very inviting and will likely remain cool.

Ski good or eat wood.

Ian Tomm
Asst. Ski Guide.

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