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Trip Reports Cooke City, Montana

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When were you there? Did you need to rely on snowmobiles much?
Past Friday - Sunday (3/10-3/13).
We took a snowmobile Friday and Sunday, but both times, super short. Could have skinned up as far as we went in 30 minutes or so.

My daughter was doing Keely’s Backcountry Camp for girls, where they stayed in a remote cabin with 7 girls and 4 female guides.

It was a bitter cold morning (just above zero F/-17C) to be standing in a windy parking lot for an hour getting the girls sorted.

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I skied with a guide form Beartooth Powder Guides an one of the other parents.
Before we got there, they had a low snow season, and some warm weather created some poor snow conditions, even some soft crusts.

Friday we skied some great powder on a north facing slope, where it was well preserved. A few tracks, including 2 snowmobile tracks, but the rest was nice and soft.
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Saturday and Sunday was still windy, mostly cloudy and snowing on and off.
In total, we got 13”/33cm of snow over the three day we were there.
Between the wind, new snow and a persistent weak layer, the avalanche danger rose from moderate to considerable, and on all aspects and elevations.

As a result, we kept it low angle, and skied gentle gullys and open trees where the wind had piled the snow up deep.

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For reference, I am 6’5” \196cm tall, with long legs, so my knees are a way up off the snow, but even skiing 185cm long, 106mm wide skis, I regularly got snow washing over my thighs. 35A600C9-7730-47A3-B629-C4A2A38A91FD.jpeg C8D89AA8-9742-4E25-96E9-678FB8AE3718.jpeg 2672161E-AB85-4A78-B0A9-C606142E2D26.jpeg
 
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