Feather peak

La qualité du hors-piste était:

Excellente

Les conditions de neige étaient :

• Lourde
• Poudreuse

Nous avons parcouru:

• Pentes alpines
• Pentes raides

Nous sommes restés à l'écart de:

• Pentes convexes

La journée était:

• Ensoleillée

Conditions d'avalanche

• Avalanches de plaque datant d'aujourd'hui ou d'hier.

A really great day out at feather peak. Road side conditions were a bit grim but as we gained elevation (200m above the road) the story started to change. Good travel with a heavy wet base covering a lot of rocks, by 1300m there is soft snow. Probed depths on feather glacier were 170cm -200cm. Pretty surprising really. There is a crust in the top 50cm in deep snowpack areas and south facing slopes look plastered with the snow from the last warm and wet storm that came through.

After a day of gaining observations ( no naturals) and skiing progressively steeper lines all with 20-30cm of heavy powder with now signs of instability , we found 1 place with much lighter snow that did avalanche as we skied down. ( see avalanche tab) that avalanche was from a storm snow interface.

all in all a great start to the season!