Touchy in highway bowl

Map for Mountain Information Network report: Touchy in highway bowl

Snow conditions

Riding quality was:
Good
Snow conditions were:
  • Hard
  • Powder
We rode:
  • Alpine slopes
  • Mellow slopes
  • Steep slopes
We stayed away from:
  • Steep slopes

Information

The day was:
  • Cloudy
  • Cold
Avalanche conditions
  • Slab avalanches today or yesterday.

Comments

Ski cut a size 2 avalanche from the saddle of the ridge going into highway bowl. Outline of crown and runout shown in red in the pictures. Slab was max 10cm deep right on ridge crest, 4 finger hard wind loaded snow, propagated across the whole feature and down slope, running on early Feb PWL, debris a 150m~ into drainage from start zone. Also triggerd a size 1 by dropping a small cornice on adjacent slope. Skied the hard bed surface, evidence of other recent avalanches upto size 2 in the bowl. Great skiing lower down in the drainage