Starr

La qualité du hors-piste était:

Incroyable

Les conditions de neige étaient :

• Poudreuse
• Affectée par le vent

Nous avons parcouru:

• Pentes de faible inclinaison
• Pentes ensoleillées

Nous sommes restés à l'écart de:

• Pentes convexes
• Pentes raides

La journée était:

• Ensoleillée

Conditions d'avalanche

• Avalanches de plaque datant d'aujourd'hui ou d'hier.
• Augmentation rapide de la température jusqu'à près ou au-dessus de 0°C ou neige mouillée en surface.

Lots of signs of avalanche activity in the area with natural wind slab avalanches within the last 24-72 hours. All observed on East and North aspects. Photo was from a cornice failure which triggered an avalanche on an East aspect (last 72 - 48 hours).

Snow was soft and powdery on South aspects and was not wind affected yet. This made for good skiing.

Hand sheers showed signs of slab like properties beginning to form.

Air temp -10°c at 3pm but sun was warm and strong.

We purposely triggered a large size 2.5 wind slab avalanche from an obvious top loaded start zone on a NE aspect. Avalanche propagated across multiple slopes and stepped down in multiple areas. Crown looked to be about 60-80cm from afar. It ran its full runout down to the lake below (no photo).