It (C)ain't over 'til it's over

Carte pour le rapport du Réseau d'information en montagne: It (C)ain't over 'til it's over

Conditions de neige

La qualité du hors-piste était:
OK
Les conditions de neige étaient :
  • Durcie
  • Poudreuse
  • Mouillée

Information

La journée était:
  • De tempête
  • Mouillée

Commentaires

After perusing weather models and seeing North Island destinations in the lead for forecast snow, we headed up to the Mount Cain area to take a look.

At 1200 m, heavy rain switched to heavy, wet snowfall at about 10:30 AM. Between then and our departure at around 2:30 PM, about 15 cm of moist new snow had accumulated. A nice little reset!

New snow was bonding pretty much instantaneously to the wet surfaces that preceded the snowfall, but we noted elevated south winds at 1300 m and would expect reactive wind slabs forming on leeward slopes at ridgetop. Management of a prior injury kept our own travel limited to rescue practices in the weather station meadow.