Skip Mountain obs UPDATED

Riding quality was:

Amazing

Snow conditions were:

• Powder
• Wind affected

We rode:

• Convex slopes
• Dense trees
• Mellow slopes
• Open trees
• Steep slopes

We stayed away from:

• Sunny slopes

The day was:

• Cloudy
• Sunny

Skied Skip Mountain near Rupert. -5 degrees C along the Skeena with well developed widespread surface hoar at lower tree line elevations. Inversion further up into the valley and along the ridge. Skied an east/northeast facing slope with an excellent right side up well consolidated snowpack, quality AAA+!! Only very localized minor wind effect seen on small convexities, creating a 1-2cm crust. Ski pen was roughly 15cm. Nil for wind. Despite my efforts I could not trigger anything even in areas with the minor crust.

***updated from previous report where I accidentally wrote northwest instead of the dominantly northeasterly slope that was skied!