Chappell sledding area

La qualité du hors-piste était:

Incroyable

Les conditions de neige étaient :

• Poudreuse abondante
• Poudreuse

Nous avons parcouru:

• Forêt dense
• Forêt dégagée
• Pentes raides

Nous sommes restés à l'écart de:

• Pentes alpines

La journée était:

• Nuageuse
• De tempête
• Chaude
• Mouillée
• Venteuse

Conditions d'avalanche

• 30 cm + de neige fraîche ou transport important de neige par le vent ou pluie au cours des dernières 48 heures
• Whoumfs ou bruits sourds ou fissures qui se propagent.

Raining from valley bottom to 1600m all day.

Above 1700m the snow quality was excellent with an average of 50 cm of recent HST over the Jan 28th SH/MFcr layer. Some whoomphing in a few open meadows were heard but significant lack of natural activity around. We observed minimal cracking today and all Test profile produce no significant results on the Jan 28. We were able Sc some very small avalanches at Ridge Crest on Lee slopes. These pockets lacked in energy to be able to propagate over features.

Overall it feels like there’s either a lack of slab property where the SH was preserved and/or where we found wind slabs today the surface hoar was previously destroyed by the wind.

We skied three Simple runs at TL and BTL where most features could only produce smaller then sz.2 avalanches.