January in April?
Quick reportYukon Field Team · Apr 10, 2021 · White Pass West
Quick report
- Weather
- cloudy, cold, stormy, windy
- Ride Type
- mellowSlopes, openTrees
- Stayed Away
- alpineSlopes, convexSlopes, steepSlopes
- Riding Quality
- Terrible
- Snow Conditions
- crusty, windAffected
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionSlab, avalancheConditionSnow, avalancheConditionSound
Today we went to investigate the reactivity of new windslabs on solar aspects. We linked up low consequence pieces of terrain to travel up into Fraser chutes today. The past 36hrs of NE wind had found its way into most if not all places. Travel was very variable. It was a flash back to winter with -17c temps, light gusting mod NE winds, overcast and snowing less than 1cm per hour. Wind slabs are still reactive. At 1150m SE aspect, an extended column test propagated across the entire column on isolation (ECTPV) down 55cm on the same melt freeze crust that produced results yesterday. The block was hard and heavy (pencil).