Babies, BBQs, Booters, Blowing Wind & Blower Pow!

Quick report

Weather

warm, cloudy, windy, cold, sunny, stormy

Ride Type

sunnySlopes, convexSlopes, steepSlopes, alpineSlopes, mellowSlopes

Riding Quality

good

Snow Conditions

deepPowder, powder, windAffected, hard

Avalanche Conditions

avalancheConditionSlab

Spent the weekend in Haines Pass exploring the Summit area ranges. Babies on snowmobiles, bbq parties, and booters were giving spring vibes. Winds were light to moderate with mod to strong gusts from the S. The highway corridor was very wind affected but as you progressed deeper into the range there was less wind affected soft snow that made for some excellent sledding and skiing. We skier triggered a Sz 1-1.5 wind slab off a steep convex feature about 20cm deep in the recent wind transported storm snow overlying the old bed surface. Saw another similar size slab avalanche in the area triggered by snowmobile and a couple cornice failures. In general, the snowpack appears to be trending towards to low hazard with some isolated features reactive to human triggering. The weather turned out to be better than forecasted. A great weekend to get out!