Bishop Bowl III

Was planning on skiing Table this morning. Turns out my buddies Ben and Ann were thinking the same and we bumped into each other on the way up.

County Road Department crew came by as we parked for Table and told us that there was going to be avalanche control work (i.e blasting) in that zone and if we went up it would foul up their plans. So we headed over to Bishop Bowl.

Coyote track. Must've been a lot of work.

Skinning was easier than anticipated. Except for the odd hollow bush, ski pen was only 20 to 30cm.

We topped out on the knoll far left and took two runs through clearing in the trees just down and right.

Ann skins up.

Great views from the knoll.

Ann wiggles in the low angle zone below the trees.

Heading up for our second run the wind picked up a little. Didn't take much to loft the cold, dry snow.

Skiing here was quite nice.

But the skiing was even better on the moraine where the north winds hadn't affected the snow at all.

Cold! Probably in the teens all day. We did not experience any collapsing or cracking and we did not observe any natural avalanches in the area.

Didn't quite get the deep powder day we were hoping for but sure had a great tour nonetheless.