Sketchy Vantage

Riding quality was:

OK

Snow conditions were:

• Deep powder
• Heavy
• Wet

We rode:

• Mellow slopes

We stayed away from:

• Alpine slopes
• Convex slopes
• Steep slopes
• Sunny slopes

The day was:

• Cloudy
• Wet
• Windy

Avalanche conditions

• Slab avalanches today or yesterday.
• 30cm + of new snow, or significant drifting, or rain in the last 48 hours.
• Rapid temperature rise to near or above 0°C or wet surface snow.

Observed several recent crowns on Vantage Peak on our way out from Keiths Hut Saturday mid-day. The would have been from avalanches that same day since we did not observe them the day before.

We opted to skin out and avoid any riding that day. We only rode the moraine down from the hut and did not observe signs of instability, although another report indicates it slid later that day, hypothetically due to more precipitation and rising temperature. Conditions were bad with high avalanche danger, heavy wet and deep snow on a problematic layer ~30cm below.