Racing Trains

We found some fun skiing up high and crust down low at the Torpy today. At the beginning of January when the persistent slab first formed our strategy was to stay in low consequence terrain - a good choice when lacking info. Now, with a few weeks of observations, we are slowly gaining confidence how to avoid this problem. While the persistent weak layer is everywhere, a rider is most likely to trigger it where snow transitions from thin to thick. For us that means staying cautious near ridge crests, alpine slopes and anywhere we suspect the snowpack height to be variable.