McMurdo Cabin / Spilli Glacier

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Conditions de neige

La qualité du hors-piste était:
Excellente
Les conditions de neige étaient :
  • Poudreuse
  • Mouillée
  • Affectée par le vent
Nous avons parcouru:
  • Pentes alpines
  • Pentes raides
Nous sommes restés à l'écart de:
  • Pentes ensoleillées

Information

La journée était:
  • Ensoleillée
  • Chaude
Conditions d'avalanche
  • Augmentation rapide de la température jusqu'à près ou au-dessus de 0°C ou neige mouillée en surface.

Commentaires

Spent Saturday and Sunday skiing McMurdo Cabin area. Excellent dry snow on true N aspects above 2200m. Everywhere else had a surface crust. 20-40cm on the mid April crust, appeared to be bonding well. There were some moderate downflow winds but no windslab observed. We saw minimal avalanche activity - only some small wet loose and one large slab on Twin Towers Peak (see photo) - likely from during the recent storm. Lots of big lines were skied with minimal sluffing. Probed 2.5m+ on the glacier and saw no visible sags etc. The sled in was interesting with lots of "dirtmobiling". Would recommend driving to at least the 42km now some more snow has melted.