Summit Creek

Quick report

Weather

sunny, warm

Ride Type

alpineSlopes, mellowSlopes

Stayed Away

steepSlopes, convexSlopes

Riding Quality

good

Snow Conditions

powder

Avalanche Conditions

avalancheConditionSound

Massive Whoomps and shooting cracks almost every 50m while skinning up Summit Creek. Shooting cracks would propagate 5-10 ms around the skier breaking trail. One massive shooting crack was triggered while skiing down past a small wind-loaded cornice. The crack was 30 cms deep, probably on that Jan crust, and extended across the entire length of the cornice. We would have felt incredibly uncomfortable on anything steeper than the low angle terrain on summit creek as nothing was really steep enough to slide. The skiing was fun, totally bluebird, with almost no wind until a gentle breeze started from NE in afternoon. We skied 5-15 cms of fresh non-wind affected powder. Temp was -16 at 1000 and -8 at 1500

Snowpack

Site Aspect

NE

Test Initiation

none

Cracking Observed

1

Site Elevation Band

alp, tln

Surface Conditions

newSnow

Whumpfing Observed

1