Cain long weekend

Quick report

Weather

cold, cloudy, sunny

Ride Type

alpineSlopes, denseTrees, openTrees, mellowSlopes, steepSlopes, cutBlocks

Stayed Away

sunnySlopes, convexSlopes

Riding Quality

amazing

Snow Conditions

powder

Skied Cain backcountry for three days. Saturday’s quit pit in west bowl, just below the clubs, showed 25cm storm snow on a slight crust from last Tuesday’s snow. The major January crust was about 60cm down. The newest storm snow/slab failed on CT12. We did some ski cutting and were unable to get it to fail/propagate on N.W. slopes. This layer did fail in a small pocket on a S.E. slope under skier weight. No movement on the January crust at all. By Monday there had been a bit of wind, and another 15cm of cold new snow. A hasty pit at the top of sliders showed the same result as Saturday, but again nothing moving with a skier/ski cut (we didn’t ski sliders though). Still hoping for a come back!!