Steep creek debris navigation

Quick report

Weather

cloudy, sunny, wet, warm

Ride Type

convexSlopes, steepSlopes, openTrees, alpineSlopes, mellowSlopes

Stayed Away

sunnySlopes

Riding Quality

ok

Snow Conditions

wet, hard, windAffected, crusty, heavy

Avalanche Conditions

avalancheConditionTemp

Lots of medium size wet loose/sluffing from point releases such as cornice and rocks from the tuesday warm temperatures left semi-hard debris all over all aspects. Skiing was okay in the two main chutes on steep peak ridge yesterday and today with some interesting ice/snow chunks navigation. Saturday was warmer and made skiing much more enjoyable with very small pinwheling below 2000m at 13:00 No signs of slab avalanches a size 1 at the bottom of peak 2318 at the lake, crown of maybe 5 to 15cm, 10m large, ran 20m at 1800m SW(ish). Definitely more worried to break my knee on a hidden hard ice shark than any avalanche danger in these 2 days. A few good turns at higher elevation.