Nch'Kay- Atwell NW Face Obs

La qualité du hors-piste était:

OK

Les conditions de neige étaient :

• Poudreuse

Nous avons parcouru:

• Pentes alpines
• Pentes de faible inclinaison

Nous sommes restés à l'écart de:

• Pentes alpines
• Pentes convexes
• Blocs de coupe forestière
• Forêt dégagée
• Pentes raides
• Pentes ensoleillées

La journée était:

• Froide
• Ensoleillée
• Chaude

Conditions d'avalanche

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

Jan 5th low level cloud gave some spectacular visuals of Nch'Kay Massif. Notable was the appearance of a mid season snow pack in extremely steep terrain. Based on many years of Obs up there.

Rock is caked with Rind.

I departed to building N wind as sun set behind Tantalus Range.

Returned Jan 6th and observed 2 large crowns on the North Face. Suspect Cornice Failure trigger during the night with propagation into the neighboring Couloir.

Avalanche info are estimates. Runout obscured by landscape.

We rode N facing low angle supported terrain and found excellent winter conditions.