Shames valley sunshine!

Quick report

Weather

sunny

Ride Type

sunnySlopes, convexSlopes, steepSlopes, alpineSlopes, mellowSlopes, openTrees

Riding Quality

good

Snow Conditions

powder, windAffected, hard

Suprisingly good skiing today! Fast easy travel conditions. There is between 5-10cm of fresh slightly wind affected snow overlying a hard unbreakable crust on both North and South aspects. Most slopes have some large avalanche debris on them from the cycle that occurred during the warm event last week. Today we observed some sluffing and a size 0.5 soft windslab that was skiier triggered near the top of a 35 degree North facing slope.

Weather

Avg Temp

-5

Wind Speed

windSpeedCalm

Blowing Snow

none

Sky Condition

clear

Temperature Trend

steady

Precipitation Type

none

Snowpack

Obs Type

summary

Site Elevation

1400

Ski Penetration

5

Foot Penetration

5

Site Elevation Band

alp

Surface Conditions

newSnow, crust, surfaceHoar, facets