- Submitted by
- Bobby Hummer
- Observations date
- Thursday, April 17, 2025 at 23:00
- Location
- 49.260160° N 125.231500° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Terrible
- Snow conditions were:
- Crusty
- Hard
- We rode:
- Alpine slopes
- Steep slopes
- Sunny slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Sunny
- Warm
- Avalanche conditions
- Rapid temperature rise to near or above 0°C or wet surface snow.
Comments
A classic island ski day. Skied the North Gully of Klitsa. Skins on at about 800m. Was out the whole day and saw no active wet slides, just evidence of old ones. Skiing in the gully was nightmare-ish. Had probably slid at the beginning of the last warming/sunny period and the debris had formed into nice basketball-sized ice chunks. Walked the bottom 100m of the Gully just to get out. The choke point is about 5 feet wide right now so probably about another week before you can't ski top to bottom, get out there if ur keen for some serious type 2 fun. I'll certainly be waiting until next winter to go back.
