Trash Mashed Taters
AvalancheTrapper Gilowski · Jan 2, 2021 · Pine Pass
Quick report
- Weather
- wet, stormy, windy, warm, cloudy
- Ride Type
- denseTrees, openTrees
- Stayed Away
- alpineSlopes
- Riding Quality
- Terrible
- Snow Conditions
- heavy, windAffected, powder
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionTemp, avalancheConditionSnow, avalancheConditionSlab, avalancheConditionSound
Terrible day in the Rolston Creek area. Skinning was difficult with 40cm ski penetration, slow sliding. Best part of the day was digging our snow profile and doing tests. The day started off with rain at valley bottom and soaked us before we even started skinning up the trail. Things cooled down around 1100m but travel was still difficult. Wind was whipping today and was starting to affect the snow even in the trees.
Weather
Temp at valley bottom was +3 and up at 1475m -3, freezing level was estimated to be 1100m. Windy we’re starting to affect the snow even in the trees.
Snowpack
We did several test all failures where on the new storm snow interface down 60 CTH21 SC, ECTP16 SC, RB4 WB
Avalanche
On the way into the pass several small slab debris were noticed and some fresher ones observed on the way home.