West Nadahini Creek

Riding quality was:

Good

Snow conditions were:

• Crusty
• Powder

We rode:

• Alpine slopes
• Mellow slopes
• Sunny slopes

We stayed away from:

• Convex slopes
• Steep slopes

The day was:

• Sunny
• Warm

Day 1 of a few weeks in the area for our crew. In lieu of recent reports, and with a shortish timeline, we went out with an assessment mindset to do some snow science and a bit of recon in front of Nadahini / two sisters. A profile dug on an E aspect at 1380m (graphed below), found a thin crust (down 23-24) overlying a facet layer down 24-30. CTH 23 (30) SP. We also performed an ECT, resulting in a surprising ECTX.

A hasty pit dug on E aspect at 1050m found another crust below this same facet layer, with the facet-lower crust interface failing on column isolation.

These facets are our primary layer of concern, and we are interested in more obs on the distribution of the aforementioned lower crust.

We did not observe any new avalanches.