Shames report for Jan 11th

Riding quality was:

Good

Snow conditions were:

• Powder
• Wet

We rode:

• Open trees
• Steep slopes

We stayed away from:

• Alpine slopes

The day was:

• Foggy
• Warm

Avalanche conditions

• 30cm + of new snow, or significant drifting, or rain in the last 48 hours.

Lg long rolling naturals heard from Valley of Doom at 10 am. Rode Prayer flags to valley bottom then up No Dogs down Cats up to No socks then down and over to Phazurs. Dry snow above 3000 ish ft. About 15 of new in skin track over night. Maybe 40 ish of new storm snow in last 48 hrs with the stick pole in snow till it gets firmy test. Wind light at dogs ridge. Not much for wind effect. (Not alot of drifts) No whumphs or cracks. Super fun snow going down. Wet ish below lower bench. No socks was great!! No slabs, sloughs running pretty fast at top pitch fir a bit. Softish basketball sized rollers in Iron curtain run out but easy to cruise around. More south wind at top of phayzurs but no whumphs or cracks. Super nice face shot stuff to start the run below the rock, moisty in the waterfall creek. Great day. Of note at creek crossing heading over to No dogs small hole opening as you slip down to creek little less than 2 ft across. It is like 3m's deep and you could fit like 6 guys in there! But it's covid and you would be to close together so dont do that.