Hamling Lakes
Quick reportsummitmountainguides · Mar 1, 2019 · Goat
Quick report
- Weather
- cloudy
- Ride Type
- convexSlopes, steepSlopes, openTrees
- Stayed Away
- sunnySlopes
- Riding Quality
- Amazing
- Snow Conditions
- powder
We skied north facing terrain in the Hanling Lakes area between 2200m & 1850m on North facing glades, open bowls, pillows and couloirs. Skiing steep unsupported and aggressive terrain to 40 degrees only producing manageable sloughing to size 1 in the top 15cm of snowpack. Minor cracking in lee of light southerly winds observed near ridge top. Up to 7cm of new snow throughout the day. Test profile at 1950m on north facing glade at 1950m producing moderate to hard resistant shears down 40cm on small decomposing crystals to 2mm. No other results in the top 110cm of snowpack. Height of snow in this location was 275cm.