Surfing the Micro Wave

La qualité du hors-piste était:

Excellente

Les conditions de neige étaient :

• Durcie
• Poudreuse
• Affectée par le vent

Nous avons parcouru:

• Blocs de coupe forestière
• Pentes de faible inclinaison
• Forêt dégagée

Nous sommes restés à l'écart de:

• Pentes raides

La journée était:

• Nuageuse
• De tempête
• Ensoleillée

Today we headed up the Microwave to see what we could see.

The day was a mixed bag for us with sunny patches, thick cloud, and pulses of snow. Winds were light from the SE, -7 and we found the crust from the warm weather over the weekend dissipated at 1500m. With the little visibility we had we did manage to observe a size 2.5 wind slab out of a NW alpine feature likely running Sunday.

At 1600m we dug a test pit on a SE aspect and found 370cm of snow. In testing we had results in our extended column tests down 40 on a 10 cm layer of preserved stellar crystals that will likely keep wind slabs reactive for a little longer than usual.