Trees and more trees

Quick report

Weather

stormy, sunny

Ride Type

mellowSlopes, sunnySlopes, steepSlopes, denseTrees, openTrees

Stayed Away

alpineSlopes

Riding Quality

amazing

Snow Conditions

deepPowder

Avalanche Conditions

avalancheConditionSnow

Sat/Sun out at murray hut. Due to forecast, vowed to stay off alpine slopes. Pit dug on NW aspect of greenberry showed ~30cm of fresh load, very loose. then ~1m of roughly the same density snow (4 fingers) then some sugary facets at the very bottom where we found a bunch of willows.... Willows appeared to be holding the whole thing on the slope very well. CTH5 at the very bottom, but then difficult to remove. Whole column came out as one unit (minus very light pow on top). Cut into the back of the pit and tried jumping on it with skis on with no results. We skied some steeper stuff on greenberry (35 degrees) with no issues. Also skied the other side of the saddle with similar observations. Sking quality was amazing but early season snowpack made travel very difficult.

Snowpack

Depth

133

Obs Type

point

Site Aspect

NW

Test Fracture

resistant

Site Elevation

1800

Ski Penetration

40

Test Initiation

hard

Foot Penetration

68

Test Failure Depth

130

Site Elevation Band

tln

Surface Conditions

newSnow

Test Failure Layer Crystal Types

facets