Muy Picante Otto Lake

Quick report

Weather

warm, stormy, windy

Ride Type

cutBlocks, denseTrees, mellowSlopes, openTrees

Stayed Away

steepSlopes, alpineSlopes

Snow Conditions

heavy, deepPowder

Avalanche Conditions

avalancheConditionSnow, avalancheConditionSlab, avalancheConditionSound

The reset is here, 50 cm of new snow since Friday in Hasler and more coming down hard… We had lots of signs of instability today, shooting cracks, whumphs, small pockets triggered, and evidence of avalanches less than two days old. We couldn’t see into any large alpine features, and we stayed off anything big enough to be an issue, not the day to take chances. Fortunately both snow and travel were amazing, with almost a meter over the January crust, and a lot of stuck sleds