Cheops North

La qualité du hors-piste était:

OK

Les conditions de neige étaient :

• Mouillée

Nous avons parcouru:

• Pentes alpines
• Pentes convexes
• Pentes raides

Nous sommes restés à l'écart de:

• 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.

Quick lap on Cheops to see how North facing terrain is holding up to the warm temps. There was a moderate refreeze overnight. The crust was breaking down as early as 0900 on solar aspects. Plenty of evidence of loose wet and wet slab avalanches mostly size 1-2 including the attached photo that took out most of the skin track on the west face of Cheops. Ski down north aspect was a mix of spring feeling snow and some spots of icy crust. Ski out was very sticky and wet by noon! If you’re heading out get an early start and keep an eye on what’s baking in the sun above you, especially if it doesn’t already have avalanche debris in it. Still plenty of good skiing to be had

It was a sunny morning and a storm rolled on around 1100 and there was mixed precipitation and moderate NW winds.