Fraser Chutes

Riding quality was:

Good

Snow conditions were:

• Deep powder
• Hard
• Wind affected

We rode:

• Mellow slopes
• Open trees
• Sunny slopes

We stayed away from:

• Alpine slopes
• Convex slopes
• Steep slopes

The day was:

• Sunny
• Windy

Avalanche conditions

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

-4 and sunny in the am, cooling off to -9 by 4pm with increasing cloud. Moderately strong SW winds through the afternoon. Tough to see, but noted what looked to be a size~1.5 natural in lower 1/2 of the Big Kahuna.

The chutes were scoured above treeline with variable windslab/sastrugi/ice, and deep and unscathed by the wind in the chutes. Bonding of storm snow to bombproof bedsurface was excellent in 1 hand pit and very poor in another: 20cm windslab failed easily (very clean shear) at storm snow interface (2cm thick weak layer - possibly surface hoar but not certain).