Slabby trees

Quick report

Weather

stormy

Ride Type

openTrees, steepSlopes

Stayed Away

alpineSlopes

Riding Quality

amazing

Snow Conditions

deepPowder

Avalanche Conditions

avalancheConditionSlab, avalancheConditionSnow

Skied London Ridge and Goat Ridge trees from Jan 3 - 7 and observed storm snow poorly bonding to underlying layers of surface hoar in open trees. Storm slabs triggered by skiers varied from 20 - 60 cm and we found between 1600 - 1800 m elevation. Although triggered easily by ski cutting and propagating to surrounding open trees areas, the slabs did not run more than 50 - 75 m. A large natural avalanche was observed on the NE alpine face of London Ridge on January 6. Crown estimated to approximately 1m and appeared to have stepped down from a storm slab of approximately 30 cm visible above.