ACC Intermediate Day on the Feather Couloir

Quick report

Weather

warm, windy, cold

Ride Type

steepSlopes, alpineSlopes

Riding Quality

ok

Snow Conditions

heavy, windAffected, hard, crusty

Avalanche Conditions

avalancheConditionTemp

ACC Steep Skiing Terrain Evaluation Day Spent the day in the Feather N couloir honing skills related to assessing and riding steeper lines in what turned out to be marginal conditions. The approach was mostly wind crust and foot-scale sculpted sastrugi, which made for a fun challenge on the up. We set off a few plates of wind crust on a N aspect but nothing that propagated or gave us cause to worry. The couloir itself had one awesome pocket of admittedly heavy pow, and the rest was mostly breakable wind crust that had us in survival descent mode. Beauty day out there! No major signs of instability, as predicted. Its sendin season