Mount Steele

La qualité du hors-piste était:

Excellente

Les conditions de neige étaient :

• Lourde
• Poudreuse

Nous avons parcouru:

• Pentes alpines
• Pentes de faible inclinaison
• Forêt dégagée
• Pentes ensoleillées

Nous sommes restés à l'écart de:

• Pentes convexes
• Pentes raides

La journée était:

• Nuageuse
• Ensoleillée
• Chaude

Conditions d'avalanche

• Augmentation rapide de la température jusqu'à près ou au-dessus de 0°C ou neige mouillée en surface.

Busy weekend at Mount Steele with multiple groups staying at the cabin as well as several folks out for the day. Multiple recent crown lines on convexities on the north aspect of Steele down towards the gully were visible when we arrived on the 15th. It snowed all night on the 15th with substantial wind accumulation. Skied both Raven Dance and Mount Steele the morning of the 16th, snow was heavy powder with variable visibility but overall great riding conditions. We triggered small point releases in the top 10-15 cm while skiing off the NE aspect of Steele in the late morning. Later saw skier triggered size ~0.5s off the NW aspect just below the summit around noon, and lots of pinwheeling on solar aspects.

Ski out on the morning of Feb. 17 was on breakable crust from the cabin to the lower lot.