Still Crusty Ogden Bench

Riding quality was:

Good

Snow conditions were:

• Crusty
• Powder

We rode:

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

We stayed away from:

• Convex slopes

The day was:

• Stormy

Beautifull snowy day -4degrees at 10h30 at 2250m.

12cm of new snow on top of a crust. The crust can’t fully support the weight of a skier nor snowboarder at some area. Makes the decent more harduous. We watched an avalanche on skier’s right coming from the overhead cliffs down a really steep shout (natural trigerred from probably corniche and/or new snow from last night and this morning).

Skiing trough the sparse trees at the bottom of the slope is pretty amazing. Still can feel the crust but snow pack is deep enough to be able to ski whithout thinking of bottom hazards.

Signs of an old avalanche size 2.5 is in the pictures. We can clearly see the crown of it and it was triggered from the very top of skiers right. Debris are left at the middle of the way (bottom plateau)