Cayoosh Armchair Zone

Quick report

Weather

cloudy, warm

Ride Type

denseTrees, openTrees

Stayed Away

alpineSlopes, convexSlopes

Riding Quality

terrible

Snow Conditions

deepPowder, heavy, wet

Avalanche Conditions

avalancheConditionSound, avalancheConditionTemp

15-20cm new snow overnight. 20 to 40cm of heavy moist powder over MFCR in all elevations skied. Suspect rapid slab development in past 24hrs with warm temperatures. Numerous loose dry avalanches out of steep terrain on NW aspects to size 1. Sc wet slab to size 1 on steep roll at 1850m E aspect, failing on crust down 35cm. Otherwise no new slab avalanches observed. Experienced a large whumpf on east aspect at 1950m near morainal feature. Test profile near by at 1900m east aspect: HS 95cm, ECTP5 down 38cm on 4cm thick layer of facets (size 2mm) above MFCR. See photo.