Fast Pow on Log Cabin

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Conditions de neige

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

Information

La journée était:
  • Nuageuse
  • Brumeuse
  • Ensoleillée
  • Venteuse
Conditions d'avalanche
  • Avalanches de plaque datant d'aujourd'hui ou d'hier.

Commentaires

We spent the day riding fast pow in the north bowl of Log Cabin. Soft, buckle top packed pow on top of wind pressed surfaces made for great riding. We were fairly sheltered from the moderate to strong south winds back there but we could see them transporting snow quite intensely from the south at ridge top. We gave the alpine head wall plenty of space as we did note active wind loading in steep, north facing alpine pockets. We also noted 3-4 smaller but fresh wind slab avalanched that had released from these features and run about 75 meters into the talus slopes below. We did travel on some wind slab at treeline but it was quite welded in and unreactive to ski cuts. Riding mellow slopes under these snow conditions is quite fun as the snow is running fast and the terrain is still quite featured.