Soggy at Hankin

La qualité du hors-piste était:

Horrible

Les conditions de neige étaient :

• Lourde
• Mouillée

Nous avons parcouru:

• Pentes de faible inclinaison
• Forêt dégagée

Nous sommes restés à l'écart de:

• Pentes alpines
• Pentes raides

La journée était:

• Nuageuse
• Brumeuse
• Chaude
• Mouillée

Conditions d'avalanche

• 30 cm + de neige fraîche ou transport important de neige par le vent ou pluie au cours des dernières 48 heures

Went for a day at hankin to hopefully ski trees and avoid the alpine hazard. The road into hankin is a complete sheet of ice, good studded tires and 4wd or chains highly recommended.

It rained up to ~1300m before slowly transitioning to light snow, there was ~10cm of new snow overnight above these elevations but it is heavy and wet. Temperature was rising as it got towards lunch time at the warming up.

Dug a profile on a NW aspect at 1500m. Found a windslab sitting on top of facets buried 20cm. CTE5 with a sudden planar failure. The recent 10cm sitting on top of this layer is also cohesive and fractured during cutting.

We also identified the weak layer mentioned in the bulletin buried 60cm but it was unreactive to our tests, seems like a probable layer to have a step-down to however.

Skiing was quite mediocre in the runs below the cabin, wet and heavy snow all the way down before transitioning back to the rain.