February 28, 2007, Jim Hill Mountain, Stevens

Very very nice powder, all the way down into the forest below 4000 feet. Thanks to Joecat and friends who set a great skin track yesterday!. The sun stayed mostly obscured by snow showers, and the temp up in the bowl didn't seem to get above about 20 degrees. The wind picked up in the afternoon and there was quite a bit of transport going on above treeline (~5600'). Our uptrack was filled in each time we went back up, and there was some cohesion developing in the upper few inches, but the snow still skied beautifully. There were signs of some recent slides in the upper bowl, so we topped out around 6200' for each run. Saw a lone skier who seemed to come up from Lanham Lake but went out Henry Creek. One big negative: the usual parking area along Hwy 2 now has big signs saying no parking, you will be towed, area under video surveillance. We parked on a plowed side road a tiny bit to the west, good to have 4WD to get back up the hill to the highway. I took a lot of photos but am too tired to deal with them right now.