Whymper N col

Broke trail all day up the N col. Really good ski conditions, wintery snow conditions. We probed a few places and found 175 cms on the lower steep section, 280 cms at our pit at 2200m and over 320 cms on the last slope above the rock triangle. In our pit we didn’t get any results on the compression test. We only dug down 130 cms and the snow pack seemed right side up. Bellow that was pencil snow.

Right side up snow pack in the top 130 cms. Top 20 to 30 cms are nice soft powder!

Slide from what I believe was a cornice failure in the right branch of the X couloir. That debris was very fresh. All other evidence of avalanches was old, likely from the last storm cycle