Ramp and Quartzite peak

Quick report

Weather

sunny, cold

Ride Type

alpineSlopes, sunnySlopes

Riding Quality

good

Snow Conditions

windAffected, powder

Headed toward Mosquito mountain but was looking a little thin. It's lower south slopes were breakable Sun crust on facets. So we headed towards Ramp and Quartzite. We had good skiing on both slopes. The top 50 m of both peaks were rocky. The faces both had between 30cm to 100cm of snow. 10-20 cm of light powder of a supportive crust over bottomless facets. In shallow areas the crust wasn't supportive. So there are weak areas that you could trigger the slope from. There were several size 2 deep persistence avalanches from the last warm up and a few small wind slabs and loose dry from more recently to size 1. We headed out the Drainage below the peaks and it worked out ok but is best avoided if the avalanche danger is higher.