Soldiers on the front lines

Quick report

Weather

stormy, windy

Ride Type

mellowSlopes, openTrees

Stayed Away

alpineSlopes

Riding Quality

amazing

Snow Conditions

powder, windAffected

Toured up east peak shoulder today. Topped out around 2170m. HS varied from 195-115cm. Very windy and snowing hard all day. Winds mostly coming from the south but variable. Dug a hasty pit (NNE, 2150m) on our first lap and didn't observe any consolidation of storm snow yet, all dry and loose. But did observe a subtle breakable crust about 25 down. Could be a slippery bed surface once this storm snow consolidates. The ice crust is sufficiently buried ~50 down. On our second lap we descended the East shoulder (scoured and bumpy as usual) and observed some more slab-like properties: shooting cracks and micro-slab releases.