Parker Ridge

Riding quality was:

Good

Snow conditions were:

• Heavy

We rode:

• Alpine slopes
• Dense trees
• Open trees
• Sunny slopes

We stayed away from:

• Convex slopes

The day was:

• Sunny
• Warm
• Wet

Avalanche conditions

• Rapid temperature rise to near or above 0°C or wet surface snow.

Daytrip to ski laps at Parker Ridge, overcast in the AM preserved the overnight recovery quite well leading to minimal clumping during the skin up. Morning laps on open slopes were good with fast, heavy snow mid-slope downward. Top of the ridge is largely blasted slab. We stuck to skier's right on the open slopes and didn't traverse too far out right. Increased sun exposure at noon meant we picked our last couple lines in the shaded, vegetated area to skier's right.

Good skiing all around until noon, got a little sticky and clumpy into the afternoon.

Plenty of evidence of activity in the general area, we observed lots of deposits of varying sizes, both slabs and wet loose.