Spooky Slabs

Snow conditions were:

• Deep powder
• Heavy
• Powder
• Wet

We rode:

• Cut blocks
• Mellow slopes
• Open trees

We stayed away from:

• Alpine slopes
• Convex slopes
• Steep slopes

The day was:

• Cloudy
• Stormy
• Warm

Avalanche conditions

• 30cm + of new snow, or significant drifting, or rain in the last 48 hours.
• Whumpfing or drum-like sounds or shooting cracks.

Went for a tour up the Evelynn runs to stick in the trees given the current hazard level. An absolute ton of whumpfing happening on the uptrack all the way from 1200m to 1600m where we stopped. Steady moderate snowfall all morning that transitioned to rain around 950-1000m

We dug a profile at 1550m on a N aspect, found 40cm of storm snow from yesterday/this morning overlaying the SH from our recent cold. We had a sudden planar failure on the storm slab CTE1 and full propagation of the column at ECTP2. We did not have any results on the jan 26 crust/facet layer. Pretty spooky conditions out there - suspect we would have seen a number of naturals in the alpine if we had the vis.

Great time to toodle around in mellow terrain while this cycles through. The skiing was bonkers good.