Mt. Whitney Portal Store & Hostel Forums General Mt. Whitney Portal Store Message Board Snowboarding the MR.

So how are the conditions up there folks? We plan on leaving Friday night, getting to Iceberg Lake on Saturday, then summiting and snowboarding down the MR on Sunday.

Any helpful beta on the conditions is much appreciated.

Thanks.

Coverage is good. If you do it right, you could be on snow from the Portal to the Notch. The quality of that snow, however, is highly variable. Sun, wind, and tons of traffic (read: Posthole city in the couloir from Iceberg up) makes for less than ideal conditions. A few inches of snow or wind transported snow will change all that. It'll also change the avalanche hazard of course.