Tutshi trees

Quick report

Drew Lyness · Dec 23, 2020 · Tutshi

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Quick report

Weather
cloudy
Ride Type
mellowSlopes, denseTrees, convexSlopes, openTrees
Stayed Away
alpineSlopes, steepSlopes
Riding Quality
Amazing
Snow Conditions
deepPowder
Avalanche Conditions
avalancheConditionSnow

Legitimately deep Wednesday in the Tutshi chutes. Felt like a day of coastal storm skiing down at Shames. Total reset after a busy weekend in this area - heavy work breaking trail and no tracks to be seen. -3 at the car at 10:30am, already around 10cm of wet snow accumulated on the road. As we moved up temps dropped to -6 and the storm snow stayed cold. Between 20-30cm ski penetration. Storm snow bonding well to a combination of old wind crust and the most recent melt-freeze crust. By 3pm there was 30cm+ of light unconsolidated new snow near the top of this terrain feature. Wind remained calm all day. No avalanches observed. Skiing was fantastic.