Bear Face Blower

Quick report

Ride Type

convexSlopes, cutBlocks, denseTrees, mellowSlopes, openTrees

Stayed Away

alpineSlopes, sunnySlopes

Riding Quality

amazing

Snow Conditions

deepPowder

Conditions were on point as snow stayed cold and dry into the early afternoon. Did not find any signs of instability on my specific route up the cut block, road, glades. Several crowns/flanks observed on the London Ridge/Whitewater side of the highway including a glide crack on the NE aspect off London Ridge. Despite my profile results up Bear Face it’s definitely still heads up hockey with high consequence probabilities at the time I was up in this region. Conditions and stability will surely change significantly with the storm snow coming before the warming next week. Snow Profile 11:28am HS 253cm 1920m elevation 30 degrees N aspect Extended Column Test ECTX Shovel Shear Test (ST) STM 60cm on faceted crust layer Density (Top 137cm of snowpack) 20cm F 30cm 4F 26cm 1F 4cm P 57fm 1F