Zoa Day Out

Riding quality was:

Amazing

Snow conditions were:

• Powder

We rode:

• Mellow slopes
• Open trees

We stayed away from:

• Alpine slopes
• Sunny slopes

The day was:

• Cloudy

Avalanche conditions

• 30cm + of new snow, or significant drifting, or rain in the last 48 hours.

Stellar conditions today with 35 cm of dry fluffy stuff and deeper accumulation in gullies. Great weather, overcast and light wind with flurries and freezing level below the Great Bear avalanche Tunnel this morning. Still some exposed rocks on windswept rolls and a couple of sneaky sharks. Decent coverage all the way to the road now and the forest was a fun ski out.

We dug a pit at 1800 on N aspect loaded/sheltered slope where snow was 0.9 to 1.4 m deep and did a column test. Some small compressive failures within the storm snow (CTE 2 to 7) and a planar failure (CTH 22) down 35 cm on a thin layer of facets below a firm crust. Below that the snow is firm and uniform.