- Submitted by
- Starky
- Observations date
- Tuesday, February 10, 2026 at 17:00
- Location
- 51.289400° N 117.548600° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Amazing
- Snow conditions were:
- Powder
- We rode:
- Alpine slopes
- Mellow slopes
- We stayed away from:
- Convex slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Cloudy
- Avalanche conditions
- Whumpfing or drum-like sounds or shooting cracks.
Comments
We encountered several instances of whumpfing as soon as we left the Balu Pass Trail and started heading up into the bowl, at around 1,600m. No shooting cracks. By the time we got up to 1,650m there was no more whumpfing.
We dug a rough pit around 1,750m and couldn't find any evidence of the persistent slab.
We ascended to 1,950m and snowpack was right-side-up all the way with no wind slab.
Beautiful snow the whole way down despite the poor visibility and flat light. We experienced some sloughing on the way down the steeper NW aspect at 1,750m.
There was some snow showering down from the NE side of Cheops in the afternoon.