Shames backcountry

Quick report

yan.kaczynski · Feb 19, 2022 · Sea To Sky

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Quick report

Weather
cloudy
Ride Type
convexSlopes, denseTrees, mellowSlopes, openTrees, steepSlopes
Riding Quality
Amazing
Snow Conditions
powder

About 24cm of new snow made for really good skiing. Steep roles did avalanche with one solid storm slab in Fayzurs and a few smaller ones in the Knolls. Be careful when skiing steep slopes above terrain traps and dense trees. The slabs went down fast today. We finished with a run down the Fayzurs and into the lower end of Waterfall—the damages over there are enormous with a lot of mature trees down and a new U shape to the creek drainage… it’s impressive and really hard to navigate back towards the resort.