Rainbow west

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Conditions de neige

La qualité du hors-piste était:
Horrible
Les conditions de neige étaient :
  • Croûtée
  • Poudreuse abondante
  • Durcie
  • Affectée par le vent
Nous sommes restés à l'écart de:
  • Pentes alpines
  • Pentes convexes
  • Pentes raides

Information

La journée était:
  • Nuageuse
  • Froide
Conditions d'avalanche
  • Whoumfs ou bruits sourds ou fissures qui se propagent.

Commentaires

Light snow throughout the day. Started to go up the west wide of rainbow mountain but pulled the plug. Highly variable snow conditions. Deep light powder in (south and east) leeward areas, with large swaths of wind slabs across most aspects. Some cracking was observed while breaking trail at around 1600m, by 1650m we decided we didn't want to be on the open face face with an a huge windslab -- plus the skiing was terrible with flat light. We pulled the plug and did a lap on Gin instead, where the skiing was great.