December farm weekend

Carte pour le rapport du Réseau d'information en montagne: December farm weekend

Conditions de neige

La qualité du hors-piste était:
Excellente
Les conditions de neige étaient :
  • Poudreuse abondante
  • Poudreuse
  • Affectée par le vent
Nous avons parcouru:
  • Forêt dense
  • Pentes de faible inclinaison
  • Forêt dégagée
Nous sommes restés à l'écart de:
  • Pentes alpines
  • Pentes convexes
  • Pentes raides

Information

La journée était:
  • Nuageuse
  • Venteuse
Conditions d'avalanche
  • 30 cm + de neige fraîche ou transport important de neige par le vent ou pluie au cours des dernières 48 heures

Commentaires

headed up to the farm cabin for the weekend on friday dec 10th until sunday december 12th. Great riding after a heck of an approach. significant new snow in the trees at lower elevation made for a very long arduous approach to the cabin. easily waist deep trailbreaking (80cm of unconsolidated snow) until above treeline, where snow seemed to be more set up and skis only sank about 25cm. wind was really blasting at higher elevations so we skied mellow slopes that were sheltered by some of the higher ridges and found some great pockets of good snow but definately worth being cautious of wind loading on all aspects in the farm alpine right now. below treeline all that snow we suffered through made for a great ski out, until I blew out my toe piece and had to bootpack the last km. definately good conditions below treeline until you hit the exposed alder maybe 200m above the parking lot all in all 11/10 trip