Emerald Lake slide path

Quick report

Weather

warm, cloudy, foggy

Ride Type

sunnySlopes, steepSlopes, alpineSlopes

Riding Quality

good

Snow Conditions

powder

Good day at Emerald lake, lots of tracks but coverage is suitable down to the lake. Entered from the west side ridge at 8200ft, a 10ft down climb was required, a short rappel would make things easy. HS ranged from 120 in TL to 200 in ALP. Steep Lee features were reactive to ski cutting, 5-20cm isolated pockets running 30-50m. Windward areas held 10-50cm of unsupportive faceted snow, recommend avoiding for the sake of core shots. Good fresh turns down to tree line consisting of ~20cm of 2-4mm DF. Experienced a rapid 5 degree warm up between 1:30pm 2:15pm as the Sun emerged. Some shedding in extreme ALP features but no signs of further instabilities or reactive deep layers.