Saturday at seaton

Carte pour le rapport du Réseau d'information en montagne: Saturday at seaton

Conditions de neige

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

Information

La journée était:
  • Froide
  • Venteuse

Commentaires

Late report: great day on Saturday above the morning valley fog with blue skis, moderate winds and cold temps. Sled skied the majority of the basin but avoided ridge features that had been and were being actively loading from the variable wind directions.

Breakable crust / wind pressured surfaces with 15-20cm facets below in the alpine. Cornices along the seaton ridge are very large, noticed multiple size 1 from small cornice failures. (northerly aspects). Saw roughly size 3 avalanche in Q ball area, crown about 400m and ran 1.2 km, likely from Thursday or Friday. Debris ran full path likely due to the crust layer.