- Submitted by
- Yukon Field Team
- Observations date
- Sunday, February 23, 2020
- Location
- 59.683450° N 134.937840° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Good
- Snow conditions were:
- Powder
- We rode:
- Alpine slopes
- Mellow slopes
- Open trees
- We stayed away from:
- Steep slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Cloudy
Comments
13cm of new snow has fallen with little wind since Tuesday morning. Visibility is still limited so we've been seeking out storm skiing/sledding goodies. In the northern end of the White Pass region where we were today, there was very good riding but as we set our track we encountered many pockets of shallow, facetted snow that offered little support. These were typically in places where the winds had previously scoured the slopes leaving shallow, weak areas. We tried to avoid these areas as much as possible knowing they could be trigger points. We also kept buried wind slabs in the back of our minds and used creative route finding to avoid areas that had the potential to produce high consequence avalanches.
