Paddy’s a Bench

Quick report

Weather

warm, sunny

Ride Type

sunnySlopes, mellowSlopes, alpineSlopes

Stayed Away

convexSlopes, steepSlopes

Riding Quality

ok

Snow Conditions

windAffected, powder, hard, crusty

Avalanche Conditions

avalancheConditionTemp

Sledded into the backside of Paddy, few off camber crux and benching of trail to be made from previous avy debris over taking the summer trail road. Bottom of the valley was -11.3 @ noon, calm, evidence of SH. Inversion was apparent once we traversed into the main zone near Paddy proper. Skied a broad north aspect slope beside Paddy proper. The ridge top was calm, sunny and with temps nearing close to zero @ 1800m around 3pm. Overall nice day for a big traverse, however average snow, wind pressed, and in general very thing and stripped on most aspects back there.