White wizard
Quick reportbensoneff · Jan 12, 2023 · Miette Lake
Quick report
- Weather
- cold, sunny
- Ride Type
- denseTrees, mellowSlopes, openTrees
- Stayed Away
- alpineSlopes, convexSlopes, steepSlopes
- Riding Quality
- OK
- Snow Conditions
- powder
Toured up Wawa ridge and then dug a pit and skied the white wizard drainage out to Healy creek. Found surface hoar up to 2350m (highest we got.) Dug a pit in the meadow above the Healy drainages at 2200m (NW aspect) HS:108. Found up to 6mm depth hoar at the base and then mostly facets expect for the slab above the PWL which was 1F mostly rounds. Got a CTH23 (SC) for the PWL and CTH25 (SC) for the DPWL. Skiing was meh, the coverage isn't great in the drainage and the snowpack tries to swallow you if you try to make harder turns. Didn't observe any whumping or really any signs of instabilities. We skied some small pillowy features but the pillows just collapsed when you hit them.