Mount bell

Quick report

Weather

windy

Ride Type

alpineSlopes, openTrees

Riding Quality

good

Snow Conditions

powder, windAffected

Avalanche Conditions

avalancheConditionSlab

walked up to bell couloir as a party of 3, when we first got to the lake with the inversion we couldn't see anything above but as we walked across everything started to burn off and we could see our objective. walked up the bench where some of the best skiing was probably had on the way back down! once on the skin track up from another group we say some winds up high that had been depositing snow in that upper bowl so we opted to just skin up to below the rock wall on the right and transition and ski from there after digging around for quick second. some supported turns on the way down. there's some big holes still open on the lower lookers right and in probably 1/3 of the way up where the previous skin track was the snowbrigde had fallen out(not super deep) overall a great day

Weather

Avg Temp

-21

Wind Speed

windSpeedModerate

Blowing Snow

moderate

Sky Condition

brokenClouds

Wind Direction

W

Snowpack

Obs Type

point

Site Aspect

N

Site Elevation

2550

Ski Penetration

15

Foot Penetration

15

Site Elevation Band

alp

Surface Conditions

newSnow, variable

did a quick bit of digging around and that new snow that had been deposited had a pretty non reactive windslab layer that was about 15cm deep but with the high winds we observed and the stuffing we were seeing come off the top we opted to turn around at the first headwall before going around the corner to the upper bowl. great riding conditions overall