Alpen report. Big whumpfs.

Riding quality was:

Amazing

Snow conditions were:

• Deep powder
• Powder

We rode:

• Cut blocks
• Mellow slopes
• Open trees
• Sunny slopes

We stayed away from:

• Alpine slopes

The day was:

• Cloudy

Avalanche conditions

• Whumpfing or drum-like sounds or shooting cracks.

Skinned up to Alpen on saturday. Biggest hurdle is actually getting there as mamaquam fsr is completely covered in soft snow, but was able to get to the entrance of Alpen with awd and good snow tires and parked near the burnt out car.

Dug a pit on open, sunny, sw aspect around 1300m, found 70cm new snow sitting on visible weak layers but no results in pit test (non conclusive), given the structure though we expected to see resettlements on this layer. We ascended some mellow open sunny slopes to test this hypothesis and we observed very large resettlements (whumpfing) in which the sound of resettlement could be heard propagating far up-slope.

We kept to mellow terrain. The powder was absolutely amazing.