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Winter Conditions 16-Jun-2007 At 3:16:05 PM climberman

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In terms of winter climbing, barring the truly precipitation deficient years (1982, 2006), ice is usually better when there is a leanish snow season. In terms of non-resort skiing, again, except for the truly precipitation deficient years (1982, 2006), backcountry skiing quality is to some extent dependent more on the types of precipitation events rather than snow depth measurements.

Community is small.

Conditions likely require a 'drop it and go now' capacity, although Blue Lake in NSW can develop well and with considerable resiliance to shifting conditions. Don't be expecting too many freestanding pillars ! A few other areas abound which could prolly allow some capacity to reminisce about the odd Scottish gully..... but you'd need to get dragged along for a sandbag mission for those :)

Those who think snowcams and reports are bullshite should have been skiing in the glory days of the 80's. Sheesh. At this time of year everyone rambles on about the best conditions for x years.... I could do with a year 2000 though. Ooohhh sweet mumma yeah !