East Raft
Quick reportAaron Cooperman · Jan 29, 2025 · Kootenay Boundary
Quick report
- Weather
- sunny, warm
- Ride Type
- alpineSlopes, steepSlopes
- Stayed Away
- sunnySlopes
- Riding Quality
- ok
- Snow Conditions
- powder, windAffected
No new avalanches today. Evidence of loose wet cycle to size 2 yesterday, and some cornice chunks. Debris on fans from gullies as well, to size 1.
Snowpack
- Depth
- 0
- Obs Type
- summary
- Site Aspect
- E, N
- Test Fracture
- resistant
- Test Initiation
- moderate
- Test Failure Depth
- 0
- Site Elevation Band
- alp, btl, tln
- Surface Conditions
- surfaceHoar
- Test Failure Layer Crystal Types
- surfaceHoar
Surface hoar growing in sheltered terrain below treeline, up to 15 mm lower slope. Wind affected all exposed terrain above tree line, sun crust on solar asp. Good skiing sheltered polar asp below tree lit. Resistant planar hand shears dn 20-30 cm in sheltered treeline on decomposing surface hoar layer (like Jan 10), not propagating or reactive to skier traffic. Quite a few glide cracks out there, generally lower slope features, spooky. No lack of bad skiing but good skiing if you know where to find it.