- Submitted by
- jjinwood13
- Observations date
- Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 14:00
- Location
- 51.059398° N 115.393897° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
![Miners gully Map for Mountain Information Network report: Miners gully](https://api.mapbox.com/styles/v1/avalanchecanada/ckuk675w6gwfk17pjrqae4tjy/static/url-https%3A%2F%2Fassets.avalanche.ca%2Fimages%2Fmin-pin.png(-115.3938969569589,51.05939829433143)/-115.3938969569589,51.05939829433143,8,0,0/1026x200?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiYXZhbGFuY2hlY2FuYWRhIiwiYSI6ImNqd2dvZmUxdzE4ZWg0M2tkaXpuNG95aTQifQ.pBLM87fE3sIxRJqJT7Bf7g)
Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Good
- Snow conditions were:
- Crusty
- Hard
- Powder
- We rode:
- Steep slopes
- We stayed away from:
- Convex slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Cold
- Sunny
Comments
8:00 am start on the approach to miners,
Approach is icy and slippery so recommend crampons or equivalent.
There was a melt freeze crust practically everywhere but there’s still good pockets to be found throughout, the choke has a heavy amount of Avalanche debris.
Once into the open gully skiing is fun with about 10-15 cm of dust on crust mellow and supportive.
We chose to ski the gully the whole way down and had to do 3 rappels (25m, and 2 3-4m) you can deffiantely boot back up higher and not need to rappel to be able to get around but we used a 48 m rope and that was plenty!