There be sharks in them there hills

Quick report

Weather

wet, sunny, windy, cloudy, foggy, warm

Ride Type

mellowSlopes, openTrees, alpineSlopes

Stayed Away

steepSlopes

Riding Quality

terrible

Snow Conditions

wet, crusty, powder, windAffected, heavy, hard

Avalanche Conditions

avalancheConditionSnow, avalancheConditionTemp, avalancheConditionSound

The snow pack was a mixed bag from the 2nd to the 4th. The menu included skinning and poking around the new snow pack... There may have been a turn or two on skinned split... that's how you know it's good. We were mostly on the southern aspect, with deposit from the prior 48hrs varying from 10-100cm depending on terrain and wind deposits. Snow pack varied drastically with fully consolidated snow pack under 5-10cm of new to 100cm penetration all the way to ground in completely unconsolidated wind deposits. Mid day on the 3rd saw wet loose from rocky features 50+ degrees and small sludgy reactions from the top 10cm of the new snow on the consolidated crust. The morning of the 4th saw a 2-3mm ice crust forming on most new snow. Snow line begins around 900-1000m Throughout the 3rd and into morning of the 4th when snow stopped, freezing levels were up and down, changing from snow to wet snow to snow/rain, and back in a 24 hr period.