SW Gultch, Tablelands

Carte pour le rapport du Réseau d'information en montagne: SW Gultch, Tablelands

Conditions de neige

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

Information

La journée était:
  • Nuageuse
  • Froide
  • Ensoleillée

Commentaires

A calm cold day in the SW Gultch area. The “Japan Tress”, and Pic A Tenerife slopes were extremely full, showing a healthy midseason snowpack.

In the SW Gulch Valley we found very good coverage as well. The E facing slopes of the valley, were holding new snow, with surface densities from stiff wind slab, to soft snow. Lots of evidence of heavy loading, and cross loading, in upper Alpine features. There was also a lot of debris in runout zones, from this past weekend‘s natural avalanche cycle.

Our test between 400-450m showed some slab instabilities in the upper snow pack, but we found overall good bonding at the new snow/old crust interface, at this elevation band. The hard crust was anywhere from 10-100+cm down, depending on where we were in the valley.