New Year. New Snow.

Carte pour le rapport du Réseau d'information en montagne: New Year. New Snow.

Conditions de neige

La qualité du hors-piste était:
Incroyable
Les conditions de neige étaient :
  • Poudreuse abondante
  • Affectée par le vent
Nous avons parcouru:
  • Pentes alpines
  • Pentes de faible inclinaison
Nous sommes restés à l'écart de:
  • Pentes convexes

Information

La journée était:
  • Nuageuse
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

Commentaires

The New Year's weekend storm delivered 30-40cm of new snow in White Pass. For this most part, the bond between the new snow snow and old surfaces seems good. That being said, there must have been additional wind in at higher alpine elevations as we observed evidence of a wind slab avalanche cycle isolated to steep, cross loaded, northeast facing alpine gullies. These were mostly size 1+ avalanches but one ran quite far and resulted in a deposition up to 150cm deep so we classified it as size 2. These avalanche observations and quite flat light resulted in us riding smaller, supported, lower angle slopes but the riding was 10/10 over the headlights.