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Quick report

Weather

sunny, warm

Ride Type

alpineSlopes, convexSlopes, mellowSlopes, openTrees

Riding Quality

good

Snow Conditions

powder

Avalanche Conditions

avalancheConditionSound

Touring on the east side of the Pass we found great soft snow! We had partly cloudy skies and almost no wind, and we didn’t see any new avalanches. There is some wind-affect in the high alpine. We felt a few whumpfs while climbing a north facing slope so we decided to ski a broad ridge instead of the face. We found the bottom half (70 cm) of the snowpack to be facets and think this is what was collapsing and causing the whumpfs. We’ll be out the rest of the week seeing if the same structure is widespread or if we just found a shallow spot!