Fly Pilot

Quick report

Weather

cloudy, foggy, stormy, wet

Ride Type

convexSlopes, mellowSlopes, openTrees, steepSlopes

Riding Quality

good

Snow Conditions

deepPowder, hard, powder

Avalanche Conditions

avalancheConditionSlab

Fast and easy travel up Sky Pilot way apart from the scrappy forest scramble. In our pit on a west aspect at 1600 m we found a friendly, progressively dense (fist to pencil hardness) 100 cm of aging storm snow above the Christmas crust that yielded no results in snowpack tests. This is a lot more on the crust than on the North Shore or in Whistler. We skied one of the more well-traveled couloirs between Sky Pilot and Habrich, not sure of the name, with our movement producing a few thin storm/wind slab releases from the steep entrance slopes. Despite being fairly tracked up, the couloir skied quite well. It snowed about 1 cm per hour all day but we observed minimal wind and negligible wind transport. Pretty fly day in Squamonix!