White Queen

Quick report

pgrockies · Feb 15, 2019 · North Rockies

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Quick report

Weather
windy
Riding Quality
Terrible
Snow Conditions
crusty, windAffected
Avalanche Conditions
avalancheConditionSnow

Very high winds, all day today primarily out of the Northeast. Significant wind transport observed, with rapidly growing slabs,enough that we decided not to drop into 5 mile given overhead hazard and stiffening wind slab underfoot. Dropped the south aspect of White Queen only to discover an inch thick sun crust formed on south aspects yesterday. Rapidly growing wind slabs forming in starting zones and lee features on most aspects of the alpine today