Storm slab turns to wind slab

Today’s skiing brought to you by the Dec 8 crust! Last week's warm temperatures and sunny skies in the Crowsnest, coupled with Wednesday's storm that started warm (rain) have developed a 10 - 15cm knife hard crust. On this crust sits 10 - 15cm of snow that fell after the temperatures dropped below zero. We found variable depth wind slabs at tree line and in the alpine from 5 - 15cm with the deepest wind slab directly lee of ridges and terrain features. We saw a couple of natural wind slab releases out of steep terrain up to size 2. This area still needs more snow, but the few turns we did were surprisingly good.