Ride One Side

A fresh coating of new snow sits over a variety of surfaces throughout the Big Y today. While there was only 5cm of fresh in the valley bottom, there was up to 30cm of soft snow on the glacier making for smooth sledding. Light winds have had minimal effect on the new snow so far but we did find one large, convex slope that had a windslab developing. After having a look and a helmets off discussion, we decided to ride a similar slope right beside it that was more supported and had no terrain traps in the runout. We saw a few loose dry slides out of steep rocky terrain but no new slab avalanches.