Soft and hard snow and sluff slide

La qualité du hors-piste était:

OK

Les conditions de neige étaient :

• Durcie
• Poudreuse
• Affectée par le vent

Nous avons parcouru:

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

Nous sommes restés à l'écart de:

• Blocs de coupe forestière

La journée était:

• Nuageuse
• Venteuse

Conditions d'avalanche

• 30 cm + de neige fraîche ou transport important de neige par le vent ou pluie au cours des dernières 48 heures

We skinned up the Big Kahuna around lunch to about 1500m, then headed over to Fraser chutes for a quick final lap. A great little day!

On our skin up the big Kahuna, we saw a lot of wind transport happening at the ridge line. We found boot top, light fluffy powder covering the entire face, but it was overtop a very hard surface. This made skinning a little challenging, as the new snow didn't provide good support and often our skis would struggle to get edge grip. Visibility was pretty poor/flat. We didn't notice any snow quality change from the bottom to 1500m.

After our lap on the big Kahuna, we headed over to Fraser chutes for another run. Looking back, we notice a loose dry avalanche had released from the rocks and had covered a lower section of our ski tracks. It must have happened between 1 and 2pm (see the images).

Our lap down the Fraser chutes was very wind scoured and hard, but overlaid with nice soft snow lower down in the trees.