Hanging Lake

La qualité du hors-piste était:

OK

Les conditions de neige étaient :

• Mouillée

Nous avons parcouru:

• Pentes de faible inclinaison
• Forêt dégagée

Nous sommes restés à l'écart de:

• Pentes raides

La journée était:

• Brumeuse
• De tempête
• Chaude
• Mouillée

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.

20-25 new at the lake and above. Seemed to have come in upside down, light and fluffy at the bottom (on the crust), though I think the warm temps today were helping it bond.

We found extremely variable reactivity -- some slopes nothing moved, even cutting unsupported convexities. On other slopes (same aspect, elevation) it was super touchy and we (intentionally) triggered size 0.5-1 storm slabs, even remotely triggering a small slab from ~20m away that jumped over the staunchwall.

A little weird out there today -- my working theory is that slopes that had been skied pretty hard prior to the warm cycle were less reactive because the crust surface was not as smooth.

Terrible vis all day unfortunately. Didn't get an air temp up at the lake, it was +3 at the parking lot.