Bear Face Blower

Riding quality was:

Amazing

Snow conditions were:

• Deep powder

We rode:

• Convex slopes
• Cut blocks
• Dense trees
• Mellow slopes
• Open trees

We stayed away from:

• Alpine slopes
• Sunny slopes

Conditions were on point as snow stayed cold and dry into the early afternoon.

Did not find any signs of instability on my specific route up the cut block, road, glades.

Several crowns/flanks observed on the London Ridge/Whitewater side of the highway including a glide crack on the NE aspect off London Ridge.

Despite my profile results up Bear Face it’s definitely still heads up hockey with high consequence probabilities at the time I was up in this region.

Conditions and stability will surely change significantly with the storm snow coming before the warming next week.

Snow Profile

11:28am

HS 253cm

1920m elevation

30 degrees

N aspect

Extended Column Test

ECTX

Shovel Shear Test (ST)

STM 60cm on faceted crust layer

Density (Top 137cm of snowpack)

20cm F

30cm 4F

26cm 1F

4cm P

57fm 1F