Mongolia is slidier than expected

Quick report

Weather

warm, sunny, cloudy

Ride Type

denseTrees

Stayed Away

openTrees, convexSlopes, alpineSlopes

Riding Quality

ok

Snow Conditions

wet, windAffected, crusty

Avalanche Conditions

avalancheConditionSlab, avalancheConditionTemp

Toured up to Mongolia. At top snow seemed light so decided to descend into Mongolia - whoops! Sun affected warm snow was primed for wet loose slides. Snow cutting set off a class I wet loose avalanche, basically the layer of new snow slid on the refrozen spring crust from last week (sorry didn’t stick around long enough to take a photo.). Slides noted out in the open (see photo). Most of the snow is sun/wind affected on any south facing slopes.