Feather peak

Riding quality was:

Good

Snow conditions were:

• Heavy
• Powder

We rode:

• Alpine slopes
• Steep slopes

We stayed away from:

• Convex slopes

The day was:

• Sunny

Avalanche conditions

• Slab avalanches today or yesterday.

A really great day out at feather peak. Road side conditions were a bit grim but as we gained elevation (200m above the road) the story started to change. Good travel with a heavy wet base covering a lot of rocks, by 1300m there is soft snow. Probed depths on feather glacier were 170cm -200cm. Pretty surprising really. There is a crust in the top 50cm in deep snowpack areas and south facing slopes look plastered with the snow from the last warm and wet storm that came through.

After a day of gaining observations ( no naturals) and skiing progressively steeper lines all with 20-30cm of heavy powder with now signs of instability , we found 1 place with much lighter snow that did avalanche as we skied down. ( see avalanche tab) that avalanche was from a storm snow interface.

all in all a great start to the season!