Bluebird day was the only thing great that day
Avalanchemartinrichard9 · Feb 23, 2022 · White Pass West
Quick report
- Weather
- warm, sunny
- Ride Type
- alpineSlopes, steepSlopes
- Riding Quality
- terrible
- Snow Conditions
- crusty, windAffected, hard
Excited to enjoy a great bluebird day in the White Pass, we drove with the hope that the snow from Tuesday was enough and not too wind affected, to enjoy some pow turns. The hope was kind of low when we saw how the wind affected the E and the S aspects. Nothing inspiring. Sastrugi, sastrugi and sastrugi. So we decided to ski Big Kahuna. The way up on Fraser was not pleasant. Thick sastrugi, hard cement snow, hard win crust and firm-textured snow. About the way down. Big Kahuna was horrible. The first half was hard snow where only your edges are holding. The second half was not better. Still cement snow but now mix with sastrugi and firm wind crust. So let’s pray for a reset in the WP !!!
Avalanche
- Run Length
- 50
- Slab Width
- 50
- Wind Exposure
- leeSlope
- Avalanche Size
- 1.5
- Slab Thickness
- 25
- Vegetation Cover
- openSlope
- Avalanche Character
- windSlab
- Number Of Avalanches
- 1
- Avalanche Observation
- moreThan48hrsAgo
- Start Zone Elevation Band
- alp
- Avalanche Occurrence Datetime
- 2022-02-23T17:11:00.000Z
We observed an old avalanche (skier’s right) at the bottom of the rocky ridge. See picture 4. *forgot to take picture of the debris.