Sneaky Seaton

Winter is coming back to Seaton! We gambled that the right amount of snow had fallen at Seaton and we won. We found about 20 cm of powder on the prolonged drought crust. It snowed pretty consistently throughout the day, there was no evidence of consolidation in the new snow, and no wind effect at tree line or the Hogsback ridge line. There was (unsurprisingly) poor cohesion between the fresh snow and the crust. It skied pretty well, but was vicious trying to set an up track. There were lots of whumps as we traversed along the top of the Hogsback, but didn’t see any other snowpack instability. It was -4C at the truck in the morning and -2C when we got back in the late afternoon. The road in gets pretty rowdy as soon as you get past where they stopped plowing near km 14.