A day late

La qualité du hors-piste était:

Incroyable

Les conditions de neige étaient :

• Poudreuse abondante
• Affectée par le vent

Nous avons parcouru:

• Pentes alpines
• Pentes convexes
• Forêt dense
• Pentes de faible inclinaison
• Forêt dégagée

Nous sommes restés à l'écart de:

• Pentes convexes
• Pentes raides

La journée était:

• Nuageuse
• De tempête

Conditions d'avalanche

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

Well seems like we were a bit late to the party. Traveled through a good portion of Allen creek today. We began our day with little trust in the snowpack. Lots of reports of natural and sled triggered avalanche activity over the last few days. I’m here to confirm those reports. We observed numerous natural slides on almost all North to East aspects with a slope angle greater than 30 degrees. They ranged in size from 1 all the way up to the full path release in avalanche alley (sz3) leaving over 3m of debris across the trail. Based on the reports as well as the amount of new snow sitting over the debris we suspect these events probably occurred at least two days ago. The failure plane was a preserved surface hoar layer down 30-70 cm deep depending on the amount of wind loading above it.

We also spent a good chunk of time testing small slopes with our sled and we’re only able to get the one failure(see photo).