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The Pure Joy of Mountain Travel

Observed Mar 11, 2025, 1:00 p.m. PDT · South Rockies

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7cm crust under a few cm of soft snowSame chunky supportive crust …Wet loose avalanches … couple of days old, but clearly showing how trees don’t necessarily protect ya !East aspect at 1900 m. Note the 4-Finger-hardness layer UNDER the Pencil-hardness layer. Thats the Jan layer.

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Variable riding conditions up in McLatchie today with solar crusts, surface wind affect, and a few old tracks (only slightly) dulling the pure joy of mountain travel. We saw no new avalanches, and with only light West wind, saw no wind transport. The overcast sky kept things cool with a high of -2 at Treeline. The snowpack was relatively shallow at 140 - 160 cm at 1900 m, with just a few cm of new snow over a strong 7 cm melt-freeze crust to ridgetop on solar aspects and below 1700 m elsewhere. We had no results in snowpack tests on the “January drought” Persistant Weak Layer, which we found 50 cm down.
Weather
Cloudy
Riding quality
Ok
Snow conditions
Crusty, Hard, Powder, Wind affected