Shovelnose

Quick report

Weather

cloudy, warm, sunny

Ride Type

alpineSlopes, steepSlopes

Stayed Away

sunnySlopes

Riding Quality

ok

Snow Conditions

heavy, crusty, powder

Avalanche Conditions

avalancheConditionTemp

Checked out shovelnose today. Road is in good shape and can drive to around 700-800m with chains. Can skin from the truck. Forest at top of cutblock has good coverage and is easy to skin through and ski out of right now. There is a crust on most solar aspects and there were some issues skinning with wet surface snow. We skied north facing chutes and found around 10cm of heavy powder above a crust, but still unconsolidated for the time being which made for pretty fun skiing. There is around a 100cm base at 1600m.

Snowpack

Depth

100

Obs Type

summary

Site Aspect

NW, N

Site Elevation

1600

Ski Penetration

10

Site Elevation Band

tln

Surface Conditions

crust, newSnow