Cirque Forepeak

Quick report

Weather

warm, sunny, cloudy

Ride Type

mellowSlopes, alpineSlopes, openTrees, sunnySlopes

Stayed Away

convexSlopes, steepSlopes

Riding Quality

good

Snow Conditions

powder, crusty, heavy

Avalanche Conditions

avalancheConditionSound, avalancheConditionTemp, avalancheConditionSlab

10-20 cm of fresh fluffy snow sitting on a crust. As the temperature increased, the snow became heavy and wet. We had some whumpfs on the shallow snowpack on the SW facing slope of Cirque Forepeak. We turned around and lapped the treeline instead. Midday, we heard what sounded like a large avalanche in the direction of Bowcrow. On our way back, we observed a few 0.5 wet slab avalanches sliding on the March 8th crust. We dug a snow pit at 2200m (we are not pros!) and recorded CTM14 down 80 on facets.