Snow around town doesn’t look impressive, but at upper elevations where backcountry and heli-skiing occurs, conditions are the best they’ve been in several years, the director of the Haines Avalanche Information Center said during a presentation Monday at the Sheldon Museum.
“There’s a solid, deep snowpack above timberline. There are no active, persistent, weak, deep layers. We had a couple of those last year and the year before. There’s nothing like that this year,” Erik…