Panorama Ridge

Carte pour le rapport du Réseau d'information en montagne: Panorama Ridge

Conditions de neige

La qualité du hors-piste était:
Excellente

Commentaires

Went to Panorama ridge.

Found facets and surface hoar at the Jan 24 interface in a flat meadow at 2200m. Tests failed sudden collapse down 40cm in the easy to moderate range under a slab that was 4F+ although the surface hoar is a bit hard to find in the facets. We did not ski the north aspect off of the ridge as a result of these findings although we did not find surface hoar with a quick look on that side of the ridge crest.

We also dug at 2400m on the S aspect and found the Jan 24 crust down 40cm with an inch of facets sitting just above. Tests failed sudden collapse on the first hit moderate. We skied this aspect and had no results ski testing to 35 degrees. Tails would just scrape the crust. Gusty to the point of blowing us over on the top of the ridge with the winds moving a lot of snow and scouring down to the crust and rocks.

No avalanches observed but the visbility was limited.

Trail is in great shape.