Burstall

Quick report

Weather

cloudy, stormy

Ride Type

mellowSlopes, denseTrees

Stayed Away

steepSlopes, convexSlopes, openTrees, alpineSlopes

Riding Quality

ok

Snow Conditions

deepPowder

Avalanche Conditions

avalancheConditionSnow, avalancheConditionSlab, avalancheConditionSound

Significant snowfall and wind at burstall overnight and this morning, tapering around 12:00. Conditions were extremely touchy, shooting cracks at basically any slope angle. Witnessed windslab failure on ridgeline. Did a quick pit because there was too much snow to ski anything. Results at wind loaded area on E aspect just below the pass: - 155cm HS - 45cm height of storm snow (15cm yesterday, 30cm today) - CTE 45 cm planar at interface with surface hoar. CTM 80 cm sudden collapse. - ECTX, not much storm slab cohesion, but would expect that to change.