Activity & Snow Report

Surface Conditions Explained:

New Powder – More than 5 cm new snow with no significant drifting. Ungroomed and untracked at opening time.

Packed Powder – Machine packed or rolled only after a fresh fall, no time limit, provided surface does not become hard.

Machine Groomed Powder – Conditioned with the power tiller or powder maker etc. to provide a relatively loose uniform surface.

Hard Pack – Very dense, hard surface, even after grooming with powder maker. Surface fluff covers real base.

Frozen Granular – Solid, crusty, textured surface. Refrozen corn.

Machine Groomed Granular – Loose, uniform surface or granular snow created by machine grooming frozen granular or hard pack.

Wet Snow – Snow which is moist, heavy and sticky; which clings together when compacted.

Icy – Large areas of hard ice or after freezing rain storm. A ski pole will not penetrate or stand supported by surface alone.

Corn Snow – When temperature is above freezing and corn snow is loose, not packing.

Spring Conditions – Temperature is above 5°C, granular snow. Any amount of bare areas, provided more than 50% of skiable terrain is open and runs are skiable more than 6 meters wide at narrowest point on every run.

Limited – Does not describe the surface but used as a suffix when less than 50% of the skiable terrain is open.