- Submitted by
- Ben Wards
- Observations date
- Monday, May 6, 2019 at 17:00
- Location
- 51.040440° N 115.769910° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Snow conditions were:
- Powder
- Wet
- We rode:
- Alpine slopes
- Convex slopes
- Mellow slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Cloudy
- Sunny
- Warm
- Avalanche conditions
- Rapid temperature rise to near or above 0°C or wet surface snow.
Comments
Let the corn harvest begin! Loaded Standish at 8:45 due to racing activity you can even catch an earlier lift! Skiing was fast due to a nice layer of fresh surface hoar and a supportive melt-freeze crust. We did a couple laps on the east aspect of Quartz ridge and they were starting to soft up quite nicely at 10am. Things were getting warm at 11:30 so we headed for some NW aspect skiing which stayed cold longer. Generally excellent corn skiing with the crust getting wet earlier but very support when we got back inbounds at 1:45.
