Emily's First Mc

La qualité du hors-piste était:

OK

Les conditions de neige étaient :

• Durcie
• Poudreuse
• Affectée par le vent

Nous avons parcouru:

• Blocs de coupe forestière
• Forêt dense
• Pentes de faible inclinaison
• Forêt dégagée
• Pentes raides
• Pentes ensoleillées

Nous sommes restés à l'écart de:

• Pentes alpines
• Pentes convexes

La journée était:

• Nuageuse

Conditions d'avalanche

• Avalanches de plaque datant d'aujourd'hui ou d'hier.
• Whoumfs ou bruits sourds ou fissures qui se propagent.

As we were riding we noticed shooting cracks underneath our machines on some exposed slopes at treeline. This gave us the heads up that wind slabs were going to be reactive to human triggering in these areas. We found a small northwest-facing slope and were able to trigger a small wind slab on a convex rollover. We avoided any larger, wind-loaded slopes at treeline and above as we didn’t want to trigger a larger wind slab avalanche.

There is some powder to be found in sheltered areas at treeline and below. In the alpine the slopes are either wind-scoured back to a hard crust, or wind-loaded with a firm wind slab on the surface.

The day was calm, with cloudy conditions and some very light snow starting in the afternoon.