Hi,
Thinking of the upcoming season (as discussed in the threads here on Pugski).
A stay in a backcountry hut/yurt seems like it would be a great idea. Avoid issues/limits/closures at resorts, as well as powder frenzy in close to the road/resort backcountry areas.
However, my wife and I are pretty fresh backcountry skiers, and we have our 10 and 13 year old daughters along. We also need to plan a long time ahead, so have to be prepared for any avalanche conditions.
Taking that into consideration I am looking for a hut or yurt that:
I can look on Caltopo myself just fine to check that, but since most huts are hard to locate on a map until you zoom in, it would be great to get some ideas from people who have visited a hut, or heard about one.
And of course, has to be in the US..
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Thinking of the upcoming season (as discussed in the threads here on Pugski).
A stay in a backcountry hut/yurt seems like it would be a great idea. Avoid issues/limits/closures at resorts, as well as powder frenzy in close to the road/resort backcountry areas.
However, my wife and I are pretty fresh backcountry skiers, and we have our 10 and 13 year old daughters along. We also need to plan a long time ahead, so have to be prepared for any avalanche conditions.
Taking that into consideration I am looking for a hut or yurt that:
- Is in an area with a less “continental” snowpack (I.e. not Colorado).Avalanche conditions vary day by day, but the odds of a scary snowpack are a lot higher in a place with shallow snowpack and extreme temperatures.
- Has plenty of simple* , low angle ski terrain right around the hut. Ski terrain meaning: not flat. We are perfectly happy in extremely low angle terrain, but still want to be sliding (we can do XC perfectly fine here at home in MN).
I can look on Caltopo myself just fine to check that, but since most huts are hard to locate on a map until you zoom in, it would be great to get some ideas from people who have visited a hut, or heard about one.
And of course, has to be in the US..
*ATES scale
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