Steep Creek Area

Quick report

Weather

cloudy

Ride Type

alpineSlopes, openTrees

Riding Quality

amazing

Snow Conditions

powder

We skied out in the Steep Creek area and found excellent snow in sheltered terrain. As we approached ridgeline, 20-25cm of low-density gold slowly stiffened up into soft, then hard slabs. Stepping off the skin track at ridgeline resulted in short shooting cracks and easy release of a 10cm slab (picture 1,2). The slab in picture 3 was on a W aspect at 2150m and ran easy on soft snow, but was stopped by some small trees in about 10m. We did get a small sz 1 to travel most of a steeper 200m gulley (W aspect at about 2100m) and saw a small sz 1 natural below some rocks at about the same elevation later in the afternoon. I probed between 165cm-220cm of snow at about 2000m on a N aspect (about 100m below the ridge).