Sunny Sinclair

La qualité du hors-piste était:

Excellente

Les conditions de neige étaient :

• Lourde
• Mouillée

Nous avons parcouru:

• Pentes alpines
• Pentes convexes
• Pentes ensoleillées

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.

Spring has arrived in the alpine.

+6 degrees at 1600m calm winds and the sun was packing a punch. We did the plateau tour today with great visibility to gain as many observations as possible.

With the recent warming and solar input we were un surprised to see numerous cornice releases as well as numerous old wind slabs from earlier this week.

In testing we had moderate results down 40 on an old wind slab interface but nothing else of note.

At the end of the day in the final hour we found exactly what we were looking for, a size 3 natural avalanche running on the Jan 26th layer. Every time we get close to pulling this problem it rears its ugly head again.

Give the snowpack some time to adjust to the warming and solar input and we should be in the swing of spring in no time.