Interior skiing

Quick report

Ride Type

denseTrees, convexSlopes, steepSlopes, openTrees, alpineSlopes

Riding Quality

good

Snow Conditions

powder, windAffected

Snowpack

Obs Type

summary

Site Aspect

SE, S, E

Test Initiation

hard

Cracking Observed

1

Site Elevation Band

alp, tln, btl

Surface Conditions

newSnow

I spent the last days skiing mostly in the interior, between Log Cabin and the Yukon/BC border. I was very surprised that the strong south wind from mid week last week did not create more problems. Skiing is still good to very good and snow stability is good too. We spent time skinning up, boot pack, climb and ski and did not see any sign of an avalanche. OK, yes it does not mean it is absolutely safe. There are soft to hard wind slabs everywhere, but with no weak interface, they are mostly unreactive, even in steep slopes (we skied slopes from 30 up to 50 degrees). The early D cember crust is still present, up to 1400 m of elevation and eve higher, something to keep in mind, but same thing, it was hard to get any result on it, but if it goes, it will probably go big. The only results we could get were just at the treeline or just above. On steep slopes, almost no results or sometimes but with very limited to no propagation. For any reason I cannot upload pictures... if you wanna see I will put some there:https://www.facebook.com/yukonbackountryskiing.net