Chutes
Quick reportPinny · Jan 2, 2025
Quick report
- Weather
- foggy, cloudy
- Ride Type
- steepSlopes, openTrees, denseTrees, mellowSlopes
- Stayed Away
- convexSlopes
- Snow Conditions
- windAffected, powder
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionSound
Jan 02 2025 We went out and rode secondary bowl, powder 8’s, Ron’s Ridge the Brazilian, Zoros, and the Chutes Wind affected along the top of the ridge, more snow at the valley bottoms. Great turns:)
Weather
- Wind Speed
- windSpeedLight
- Blowing Snow
- light
- Sky Condition
- fog
- Wind Direction
- SW
- New Snow24 Hours
- 4
- Storm Start Date
- 2025-01-02
- Storm Snow Amount
- 4
- Temperature Trend
- steady
- Precipitation Type
- snow
Foggy visibility was in and out all day above the lowest fog band when we where on ridge top.
Snowpack
- Depth
- 115
- Obs Type
- point
- Site Aspect
- NE
- Test Fracture
- resistant
- Site Elevation
- 2200
- Test Initiation
- moderate
- Test Failure Depth
- 100
- Site Elevation Band
- tln
- Surface Conditions
- newSnow
- Whumpfing Observed
- 1
We dug a pit in a safe place above the exit chutes. The snowpack was 115cm deep. We observed failures at 100cm, 80cm that were both on wind slabs. Interestingly, the Dec 6 rain crust was unreactive which is a positive indicator that the layer is healing. Also, wumphing was heard on Ron’s Ridge.