Wind slabs building in alpine

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Conditions de neige

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

Information

La journée était:
  • Nuageuse
  • Brumeuse
  • De tempête
  • Ensoleillée
  • Chaude
  • Mouillée
  • Venteuse
Conditions d'avalanche
  • Augmentation rapide de la température jusqu'à près ou au-dessus de 0°C ou neige mouillée en surface.

Commentaires

We sledded above Fraser to Bryant Lake and up to the Notch. In the morning 10 cm of powder was light and fresh. We saw recent snow was sluffing in many small and narrow size 1 dry loose avalanches out of high alpine terrain. We skinned up to Taiya Glacier to 1700 m where we probed 260cm snow depth and found great ski quality skiing the NE slope back into the Bryant drainage. There are numerous hard interfaces in the top of the snowpack, including a firm wind affected surface below the new snow and another stiff interface 75cm down. It was warm in the alpine today, freezing level was around 1000m and it was only -4C up high at 1700m. Clouds rolled in, snow started and visibility deteriorated after lunch and we could see significant wind transport at ridge top from a strong wind, a sure sign that wind slabs are actively forming this afternoon.