Balu pass

Riding quality was:

Good

Snow conditions were:

• Crusty
• Powder

We rode:

• Mellow slopes
• Open trees

We stayed away from:

• Alpine slopes
• Steep slopes

The day was:

• Cloudy
• Stormy

Avalanche conditions

• 30cm + of new snow, or significant drifting, or rain in the last 48 hours.

Heading up Connaught creek highway was decent. Pretty good skin track. Feeling the snow going up there was a good 10-20cm in spots on a hard layer. We headed up from the pass lookers right up to the top of the trees where we could overlook 8812 bowl. We could see lots of tracks but heading down through the trees we skied very good quality snow but you could still feel the crust underneath in spots.

There were a few visible holes here and there over the creek that needed to be avoided but all in all the the ski out was decent.