Assiniboine

Riding quality was:

Good

Snow conditions were:

• Powder
• Wind affected

We rode:

• Dense trees
• Mellow slopes
• Open trees

We stayed away from:

• Alpine slopes
• Convex slopes
• Steep slopes

The day was:

• Cloudy
• Stormy
• Windy

Avalanche conditions

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

Spent 4 days in Assiniboine.

Heavy winds in the alpine every day, with storms bringing 20cms overnight on the 3rd, another 10-15cm dropping the day of the 4th.

Most things have slide, but watched size 2 come off the east face Naiset peak on the 3rd of January.

Skied mellow trees around the Bryant creek shelter on the 2nd, found crust above tree level, and powder in the trees

Skied trees below Naiset peak down to lake Magog and from the nib in stormy conditions, found 5-10cm of snow onto of hard crust in open trees and powder in dense trees.