Sand mountain

Quick report

Weather

warm, sunny, cloudy

Ride Type

sunnySlopes, steepSlopes, alpineSlopes

Skied a steep east face at 1650m on Sand Mountain. Unfortunately, it had about 2” of fresh snow sitting on the melt freeze crust so wasn’t corned up nicely, but skied ok anyway. Shaded terrain even fairly low in those northerly bowls was quite firm. The normal south facing run at Sand is still mostly good, but the alders at the bottom are becoming hard to navigate and the snow was isothermal by the time we skied out there. Forest ok, still skis on to and from the car but not for long. Huge cornices still hanging around on the north facing ridge lines as you go up, and some very large glide cracks opening up in the lower parts of those bowls.