Alpen report. Big whumpfs.

Quick report

Weather

cloudy

Ride Type

cutBlocks, mellowSlopes, openTrees, sunnySlopes

Stayed Away

alpineSlopes

Riding Quality

amazing

Snow Conditions

deepPowder, powder

Avalanche Conditions

avalancheConditionSound

Skinned up to Alpen on saturday. Biggest hurdle is actually getting there as mamaquam fsr is completely covered in soft snow, but was able to get to the entrance of Alpen with awd and good snow tires and parked near the burnt out car. Dug a pit on open, sunny, sw aspect around 1300m, found 70cm new snow sitting on visible weak layers but no results in pit test (non conclusive), given the structure though we expected to see resettlements on this layer. We ascended some mellow open sunny slopes to test this hypothesis and we observed very large resettlements (whumpfing) in which the sound of resettlement could be heard propagating far up-slope. We kept to mellow terrain. The powder was absolutely amazing.