Sunny Skip

Map for Mountain Information Network report: Sunny Skip

Snow conditions

Riding quality was:
Good
Snow conditions were:
  • Deep powder
  • Heavy
We rode:
  • Dense trees
  • Mellow slopes
  • Open trees
We stayed away from:
  • Convex slopes
  • Steep slopes
  • Sunny slopes

Information

The day was:
  • Sunny
  • Warm
Avalanche conditions
  • Slab avalanches today or yesterday.
  • 30cm + of new snow, or significant drifting, or rain in the last 48 hours.

Comments

Good day at skip ! Verry deep trail breaking! Arount 100 cm of new storm snow at lake level.

We dug a pit at 600 meters ene facing.

Two layers of concern.The overnight new snow (30 cm) that was giving moderate shear but not to much cohesive yet (no result in the ect test) and one other interface down 70 (preserved stellar) that one did propagate accross the entire block on our ECT test in the hard range. It was pretty clean shear.

Later in the day the first layer started to naturally avalanches all along the top of the main bowl with a lot of propagation then.(maybe more wind affected up there) but no step down on the more concerning layer! There was multiple size 1.5 across the entire bowl.

We skied a few runs down low in lower angle terrain.

HS was 320 cm !