Gnarnia

La qualité du hors-piste était:

Excellente

Les conditions de neige étaient :

• Poudreuse abondante
• Poudreuse

Nous avons parcouru:

• Pentes convexes
• Pentes de faible inclinaison
• Forêt dégagée

Nous sommes restés à l'écart de:

• Pentes alpines
• Blocs de coupe forestière
• Pentes raides
• Pentes ensoleillées

La journée était:

• Nuageuse
• De tempête
• Ensoleillée
• Chaude

Conditions d'avalanche

• Avalanches de plaque datant d'aujourd'hui ou d'hier.
• 30 cm + de neige fraîche ou transport important de neige par le vent ou pluie au cours des dernières 48 heures
• Augmentation rapide de la température jusqu'à près ou au-dessus de 0°C ou neige mouillée en surface.

Another great day in Gnarnia via tracked quad to end of Beta Lake Road (E100). Current road conditions at bottom of post.

Snow: At the end of E100, there is a 1-2” breakable crust with dense, supportive powder underneath. Boot penetration to the knees, but ski penetration 6” or so while skinning. Not bad! The ridge top is wind scoured. We rode Gnarnia trees (N aspect), which was decent powder skiing. Heavier than the February jackpot, but still light enough for fun to be had— no crust! I could penetrate to about 50-60cm with my ski pole. Weather was a mixed bag, but overall felt fairly warm. Sun, cloud, sleet, and light snow through the course of the day. No pit, sorry!

We observed the remains of some natural avalanche action on N and W alpine slopes (see pics) including what looked to be cornice-triggered slides on W Face Little Knuckle and on the slopes below the N Face of Little Knuckle. The latter is a bit of conjecture— large debris were visible at around 1200m below the corniced ridge of the N Face of Little Knuckle. The actual slope that may have slid isn’t visible from Gnarnia… so 🤷‍♂️. We did not feel or see any signs of instability on the slopes we rode in Gnarnia.

Roads: Clear to the start of E100. Patchy to the second washout under the waterfalls… which has a small new wash out! A few rocks had to be moved, but it is passable by quad. Further up on E100 pallet snow bridges are holding up well with 4-6ft snow walls on the exposed creeks.