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Steve 'Reidles' Reid · Feb 7, 2018 · Vancouver Island

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Quick report

Ride Type
mellowSlopes
Riding Quality
OK
Snow Conditions
crusty, hard, windAffected, powder

Well, the MIN wanted optimism, so my earlier post was cropped. So, now you know the good... The bad: Still VERY wind affected snow in the alpine. Stripped to crust in spots. Hard windslab and satstrugi-esque features building in the alpine. The ugly: There's no snow, really. Big Y North and South have snow depths averaging 60cm, though just rock in many places, and never exceeding 1m. Heads up travel!

Snowpack

Two compression tests at 1200m, N Aspect. No result