Gloomy Windy Shmooey Slabby

Quick report

Weather

warm, foggy, cloudy, stormy, windy, wet

Ride Type

openTrees

Stayed Away

steepSlopes, alpineSlopes

Riding Quality

good

Snow Conditions

windAffected, crusty, powder, heavy

Avalanche Conditions

avalancheConditionSnow, avalancheConditionSlab

NE of Rosswood. We went to a zone familiar to us for sled skiing, usually a good bet for storm riding. We ran a lap in the trees with no signs of instability The wind was hauling at ridgetop (50km/h give or take) transporting snow onto leeward slopes. First turn into our second run we ski cutted a size 1/1.5 at ridgetop on NW aspect at 1400m. Crown varied in size from 20cm up to almost 1.5m. Safe to say the wind is transporting a lot of snow so be careful in more open areas, the previous NE winds really did not leave a nice surface for the new storm snow coming in. I suspect areas like South Douglas to have very similar loading. Electric.

Avalanche

Trigger Type

skier

Wind Exposure

leeSlope

Avalanche Size

1.5

Trigger Sub Type

intentional

Start Zone Aspect

NW

Vegetation Cover

openSlope

Start Zone Incline

35

Avalanche Character

windSlab

Number Of Avalanches

1

Start Zone Elevation

1400

Start Zone Elevation Band

tln

Avalanche Occurrence Datetime

2025-02-21T21:29:00.000Z