Powder and collapses and bears oh my!

Quick report

Weather

cloudy, cold

Ride Type

denseTrees, mellowSlopes, openTrees

Stayed Away

steepSlopes, convexSlopes, cutBlocks

Riding Quality

good

Snow Conditions

deepPowder, powder

Avalanche Conditions

avalancheConditionSnow, avalancheConditionSlab, avalancheConditionSound

Toured Grizzly Shoulder and Teddy Bear trees today and found ~50cm of new snow overlying the well developed facet layer above the Feb 3rd crust. While breaking trail above 1600m we felt/heard a handful of large collapses and saw localized shooting cracks (<5m) which oriented us to keep to supported slopes and smaller disconnected terrain features. We also observed a couple of recent avalanche crowns (size 2 estimated) at ~1800m on Cheops’ north aspect in small pieces of open terrain. These looked to have failed on the facet/crust layer. Beauty of a day out there with a handful of glorious sucker holes and calm winds!

Weather

Wind Speed

windSpeedCalm

Blowing Snow

light

Sky Condition

brokenClouds

New Snow24 Hours

50

Temperature Trend

steady

Precipitation Type

snow

Avalanche

Trigger Type

natural

Avalanche Size

2

Number Of Avalanches

1

Avalanche Occurrence Datetime

2024-02-25T22:00:00.000Z

At 3pm we heard a large avalanche running from high on the north aspect of Cheops but couldn’t see it due to clouds rolling in. Unsure of specifics due to limited (no) visibility.