Soggy and failing

Quick report

Weather

warm, stormy

Ride Type

mellowSlopes

Stayed Away

steepSlopes, alpineSlopes

Riding Quality

ok

Snow Conditions

windAffected, wet, powder

Avalanche Conditions

avalancheConditionSound, avalancheConditionTemp

Field day up the Perry Creek, overcast and warm and wet. Trailhead at 1600m was right around 0 all day, valley bottom was +5. Light snow and winds from SW, overall depth of snow is 70-90 cm in the meadow. Much of the slopes are below threshold for skiing and avalanches both at this point. We didn’t see any evidence of a windslab problem, but we were getting failures in the storm snow both in a pit, and in test slopes on skis. Also had sudden collapse failures in depth hoar/facets on the ground, and multiple instances of “whumphing” while travelling. Obs limited due to poor visibility in ALP