Hasler Snow Day

Riding quality was:

Good

Snow conditions were:

• Hard
• Powder
• Wind affected

We rode:

• Dense trees
• Mellow slopes
• Open trees

We stayed away from:

• Alpine slopes
• Convex slopes
• Steep slopes

The day was:

• Cloudy
• Warm
• Windy

Avalanche conditions

• Slab avalanches today or yesterday.
• 30cm + of new snow, or significant drifting, or rain in the last 48 hours.
• Whumpfing or drum-like sounds or shooting cracks.

Very snowy and poor visibility in Hasler today, we done get very far and stuck to simple terrain and avoided any large slopes. Broke trail in, still some open water and creek holes. We didn’t get any further than in behind the Sunshine Bowl, and stayed in the creek bottoms and thick trees. In our pit the only layer that reacted was a storm slab interface down 12 cm, which reacted in the easy range, and the Hoar/Facet layer down about 40 cm, which reacted in the hard range. The snowpack is very consolidated below the top 50 cm, and there were no other results on compression or Deep tap tests. It snowed hard all day with local winds out of the SouthWest, and we saw lots of evidence of transport and cornice development in lee slopes.

We remote triggered a small size 1 avalanche on a small convex roll in the storm slab Interface, the slab layer was between 15 and 25 cm depending on wind load.

Definitely expect the Avy danger to stay high until this storm cycle has passed and the new snow has a chance to bond with the underlying snowpack.

Stay safe!