Big sastrugi big wind slabs
Avalanchebramski · Feb 13, 2021 · Brandywine
Quick report
- Weather
- cold, sunny
- Ride Type
- alpineSlopes, denseTrees, steepSlopes, sunnySlopes, openTrees
- Riding Quality
- Terrible
- Snow Conditions
- crusty, hard, windAffected
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionSnow, avalancheConditionSlab
Extremely variable slopes. On South slopes there is a breakable sun crust in addition to variable depth wind slabs quite deep into treeline. In the trees there is extensive wind damage, downed branches, and tree bombs.
Avalanche
Observed this larger windslab result today from a distance. Several other direct action smaller windslabs had also released on southerly aspects.