Top of burnt trees and fayzurs
Quick reportekennedy · Jan 7, 2023 · Shames
Quick report
- Weather
- stormy, warm, wet
- Ride Type
- denseTrees, mellowSlopes, openTrees
- Stayed Away
- alpineSlopes, steepSlopes
- Riding Quality
- OK
- Snow Conditions
- heavy, powder, wet
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionSound
Rain until tower 11, snowing on and off above that for the day. Decent skiing above 1000m, but turned heavy around 900-1000m and slushy around 700-800m. From a pit around early fayzurs, we found heavy storm slab above a layer of hoar frost (20cm) then wind slab above a facet layer (50cm-ish). Storm slab collapsed after 7 elbow taps, wind slab after a few full shovel taps. A few whumps and cracks near the skin track.