Healy Pass

Quick report

Weather

wet, warm

Ride Type

openTrees, mellowSlopes

Stayed Away

steepSlopes, openTrees

Riding Quality

ok

Snow Conditions

heavy, wet, powder

Avalanche Conditions

avalancheConditionTemp

Following up on Cameron Brodrick's report, we skied Healy Pass on Tuesday. Weather was really warm, probably around 5-8° in the mid afternoon. In the pass the snowpack was roughly 40cm of base snow, 10cm ice crust, 60cm snow on top where I dug my pit. Just over 1m of snowpack. In the photos there is one where my shovel hit the ice crust, and two where I hit the dirt. I'm not professional so I won't tell you how bonded everything was, but I didn't hear any whumpfing or see cracks, but another party said they had seen a ~1.5 slide on a different aspect than we were on. Be safe. Overall a bit long of an approach to do multiple laps once you get there for our early season legs, but great hike in and stunning views of the sunshine valley.

Weather

Sky Condition

fewClouds

Precipitation Type

none

Snowpack

Depth

110

Obs Type

point

Site Aspect

S

Ski Penetration

15

Foot Penetration

50

Site Elevation Band

alp, tln

Surface Conditions

newSnow

Incident

Group Activity

skiing