Solar and wind, pork and beans

La qualité du hors-piste était:

Excellente

Les conditions de neige étaient :

• Durcie
• Poudreuse
• Affectée par le vent

Nous avons parcouru:

• Pentes alpines
• Pentes convexes
• Pentes raides

Nous sommes restés à l'écart de:

• Pentes ensoleillées

La journée était:

• Ensoleillée
• Venteuse

Conditions d'avalanche

• Augmentation rapide de la température jusqu'à près ou au-dessus de 0°C ou neige mouillée en surface.

Went after some bigger objectives today, snow held up its end of the bargain.

A relatively mixed bag of snow quality out there. Solar aspects were getting cooked, and we were greeted by some huge pinwheels, one at 30cm diamete on our initial ascent. Decided to ski some North aspect lines away from the sun effect. Quite a bit of wind effect on all other aspects, wind crusts, textured surfaces and hard slab exists on some north aspects above 1500m, hard to get an edge in at times on the descents, but a NE aspect line at 1800m had the best skiing quality of the day.

A solar aspect at the end of the day at 1500m was hot mush.

Wind was in and out, close to 0⁰c around 1300, closer to -5⁰c higher in the Alpine.

Did not encounter any weak layers between a 20-30cm deep crust and the overlying crumbling wind affect layers on top, more cohesion in the upper layer of dense snow on a S aspect at 1800m.