Spicy Christmas Eve Special On Fayzurs

Quick report

Soccer Mom · Dec 24, 2022 · Shames

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Quick report

Weather
stormy
Ride Type
convexSlopes, denseTrees, mellowSlopes, openTrees, steepSlopes
Riding Quality
Amazing
Snow Conditions
deepPowder
Avalanche Conditions
avalancheConditionSlab, avalancheConditionSnow, avalancheConditionSound

Great storm skiing in the trees of the shames slackcountry. Numerous ski-cut storm slabs from size 1 to size 1.5 with a notable ski cut stepping down deeper than the storm snow on previously buried wind slab. See the avalanche report.

Snowpack

SE to W lees showing anywhere from 30 cm to 80 cm of low-density snow overlaying MFcr and buried wind slabs. Windward slopes that were observed today were stripped back to previous surface.

Avalanche

Numerous Sc SS avalanche Sz 1 to 1.5 from steep slopes above 40 degrees going from thin to thick snowpack areas. One Sc released a Sz 1 SS down 30 cm to 50 cm, that ran a few meters before stepping down 80 cm to 1oo cm on old and buried Ws overlaying a MFcr/Fc complex

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