Lovat Scout Area
Quick reportGreg Rantala · Jan 16, 2021 · Yukon
Quick report
- Weather
- cold, cloudy, sunny
- Ride Type
- mellowSlopes, denseTrees, openTrees
- Stayed Away
- alpineSlopes
- Riding Quality
- Good
- Snow Conditions
- windAffected, powder
Snow conditions at tree line and below on the N/NE aspects are excellent - storm snow has settled into a 20cm layer on a supportive snowpack. No instabilities noted during the outing. Observations of Alpine is of course wind hammered/scoured and definitely new developments of cross slope wind loading on the west/southwest aspects in any exposed areas over the past week.
Weather
By mid afternoon cloud cover rolled in and it looked to be the potential conditions for some isolated flurry development.