Shames Powder

La qualité du hors-piste était:

Incroyable

Les conditions de neige étaient :

• Poudreuse abondante

Nous avons parcouru:

• Pentes convexes
• Forêt dense
• Pentes de faible inclinaison
• Forêt dégagée
• Pentes raides

Nous sommes restés à l'écart de:

• Pentes alpines

La journée était:

• Nuageuse
• Venteuse

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

Good visibility showed only a few recent storm slab avalanches to Sz 2 (-24 hours). Storm slabs on Geronimo (SE facing, 1300m) to Sz 2. Suspect recent storm interface with crown depth at 25cm. Few ski cuts on NW aspect at 1150m produced Sz 1 storm slabs quickly breaking up and not running far. Skiing was exceptional until about 1050m whereupon thin melt freeze crust (Dec 15) down 25cm started to be felt. Quality was only marginally reduced. Alpine looked to be wind scoured in places with obvious cross loading on the south side of The Dome. While skinning at treeline was easy there were many thin to thick drifts to work through varying from 20-50cm.

Quick probe at 950m (Valley Bottom) found 230cm HS with 25cm recent dry storm snow (HST) sitting over a thin but supportive to skis Dec 15 melt freeze crust (MFcr). Dec 7 melt freeze crust (MFcr) is 145cm down.