Current mountain snow conditions Hawkes Bay Area

[John Smallwood]

Snow conditions have greatly improved here since my last report.While theres still loads of POW in the timber traveling is way better as the snow has firmed up on the hills..we were 20 min from lady western to the end of middle gulch..the same trip last time we got stuck a dozen times and took 2 hours...bring on the sunshine im going riding......should note theres a tree across the run up thru the timber on lady western we had to dig under it and get another run at it should be fine that way till we get a dump or someone cuts the tree, we trimed the branches under it ...coming out that way is still fine regardless you can make a quick turn around the tree coming down but its to quick a turn to get up lol

[John Smallwood]

Sledding is still to be had ....Take squid cove road in 8 km and take a right to the snow.

[John Smallwood]

Rain took the new snow in the low lands have to truck your sled a couple miles in the loging roads at Hawkes bay or squidcove to access the snow to the mountains now.Still LOADS in the Mountains.

[John Smallwood]

Good dump of snow over the last couple days The mountian riding should be epic

[John Smallwood]

just spent the weekend on the hills conditions are great..was up to eagle mountain and back in a day.Powder in the gulches still Little icy on the flats...

[John Smallwood]

Conditions are great, little icy on the flats but lots of pow to be found,great for traveling. The guys from nova scotia racked up 180 miles up there yesterday.I just spent two days In the mitchels lake area ...exploring conditions.... nice bottom to the snow and fresh pow in the gulches and western sides of all the lakes...