Shannon Basin

Snowpack

ryanwwood1 · Jan 17, 2021 · South Coast Inland

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Quick report

Ride Type
alpineSlopes, openTrees
Riding Quality
Terrible
Snow Conditions
crusty

Very hard travel due to the thick crust starting at 1100m. 10cm of new snow not bonding to the crust. Lots of old loose wet and slab avalanches on north aspects. No new avalanches observed.

Snowpack

10cm of new snow on a 10cm crust. A second thinner crust was 10cm bellow that. No/little sluffing but sidehilling was very difficult due to the new snow not bonding to the crust.