Sutterhorn Corn 🌽

Riding quality was:

Good

Snow conditions were:

• Crusty
• Wet

We rode:

• Alpine slopes
• Convex slopes
• Mellow slopes
• Open trees
• Steep slopes
• Sunny slopes

The day was:

• Sunny
• Warm

Avalanche conditions

• Rapid temperature rise to near or above 0°C or wet surface snow.

Beautiful day for a classic Island corn harvest in the Sutton Peak area. The Nimpkish Main is super busy and tuning your radio to Woss Direct is advised! We staged sleds at about 750 m on the Fire Creek branch of the Stuart road and had a straightforward, mostly firm ascent to ridgetop with a few mercifully soft steps in spots hit by the morning sun. Ski crampons are useful early in the day but bootpacking works too.

We summitted a secondary peak on the massif and settled in for a longish break as we waited for the corn to be born. We hit it just about perfectly by starting down around 1pm. One or two turns on shady crust, one or two in punchy isothermal shmoo, but the great majority in picture perfect corn. Minor aspect changes make a big difference from slope to slope.

Still very worth it out there! Just gotta nail the timing.😉