5 Mile area
Quick reportdavid.bryan · Feb 26, 2017 · Chilkat Pass
Quick report
- Weather
- windy, warm, sunny
- Ride Type
- mellowSlopes, denseTrees, sunnySlopes, openTrees
- Stayed Away
- alpineSlopes, convexSlopes, steepSlopes
- Riding Quality
- Good
- Snow Conditions
- crusty, windAffected
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionSnow, avalancheConditionSound
AST1 course. Nice day skiing up 5 mile creek. -3 at 400m we skinned to 760m enjoying nice views and sunshine. Isolated windslab formation on SW aspects with shooting cracks and whumphing. Significant ridgetop blowing snow loading S. aspects in Alpine. HS ~ 200cm Mostly hard and resistant planar test results. Easy hand shears on windslab. Good turns up high!