Sluffs and Wind Slabs in Grizzly Couloir

La qualité du hors-piste était:

Incroyable

Les conditions de neige étaient :

• Croûtée
• Poudreuse abondante
• Lourde
• Poudreuse
• Mouillée
• Affectée par le vent

Nous avons parcouru:

• Pentes alpines
• Pentes de faible inclinaison
• Forêt dégagée
• Pentes raides
• Pentes ensoleillées

La journée était:

• Nuageuse
• Ensoleillée
• Chaude
• Mouillée

Conditions d'avalanche

• Avalanches de plaque datant d'aujourd'hui ou d'hier.
• Whoumfs ou bruits sourds ou fissures qui se propagent.
• Augmentation rapide de la température jusqu'à près ou au-dessus de 0°C ou neige mouillée en surface.

Sluffing and wind slabs up to 3 inches thick, traveling 2 to 300 feet in Grizzly Couloir, in a cloud, easy to mitigate. Had a bit of everything on the way out, amazing riding, and extremely sticky/slow isothermal slow in valley bottom on way out.

A little late in starting, due to staying up too late worrying about a missing friend, not seen since Monday morning, so did change our objective.

Definitely wet loose, not dry, seen at all elevations. Lower down even more wet loose, almost slabby releases. At least size 1. Easier to travel with a slide in the trees, than actually ski the surface it was so sticky. Saw separation - from the Grizzly slide, with snowpack separating with 8 foot holes to surface level, pulling the snowpack down.

Silly amazing skiing between the clouds and valley bottom, made of dreams.