Deep and touchy at Red Heather

Quick report

Weather

stormy

Ride Type

convexSlopes, openTrees, steepSlopes

Riding Quality

good

Snow Conditions

deepPowder, heavy

Avalanche Conditions

avalancheConditionSnow, avalancheConditionSlab

Essentially what we expected from today. Snowing (at times heavily) all day, light to moderate winds on the ridge. About 10cm of accumulation over the day, quite a bit more from overnight. Surface snow was slabbing up but still skiing reasonably well (though deep and heavy) on steep enough pitches. Ski penetration on the uphill was between 15-50cm. We ski cut a number of size 0.5 - 1s during the day on the steeper pitches. About 20-30cm crowns and 5-10m wide. Did not ride any large features due to the above so it was a bit challenging to get the right steepness to ski deep snow but not so steep to slide.