Winter conditions for a change

Quick report

Weather

stormy, sunny

Ride Type

alpineSlopes, openTrees

Riding Quality

good

Snow Conditions

powder

Avalanche Conditions

avalancheConditionSlab

Proper winter out there for the first time in weeks. The new snow from Friday night dried out a bit on Saturday night which made for good skiing even on south aspects. Snow remained cold to valley bottom all day, surprisingly, despite some rollers coming off the rock bands in the morning sun. We skied two laps on Zymbuk1 and two on North Bowl. The northerly aspects in the zymacord drainage were harboring what seemed to be a melt freeze (rain?) mid-storm interface down about 10 that produced consistent results to size 1.5 on steep unsupported features (see pic). We also observed a few naturals in that drainage on this layer that may have gone on Saturday with the warming. The steep west terrain off north bowl did not have the same problem.