Fraser Chutes thigh deep!
Quick reportmartinrichard9 · Jan 26, 2019 · White Pass West
Quick report
- Weather
- windy, cloudy
- Ride Type
- mellowSlopes, openTrees
- Stayed Away
- alpineSlopes, steepSlopes, convexSlopes
- Riding Quality
- Amazing
- Snow Conditions
- deepPowder
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionSnow, avalancheConditionSlab, avalancheConditionSound
The new snow sits on top of a thin rain crust from friday (January 25). The day start with South light winds and warm temperature (0°c). Around 14h, the winds changed direction (North) and increase to moderate and temperature drops. The moderate North winds was didn’t last long (2-3h). At 16h00, the cloud cover have gone from scattered to clear. That short period of moderate winds results was cross loading and top loading. The surface changed right away. A soft slab of 5-10cm formed in wind affected areas. Slab was really reactive and we experienced widespread shooting cracks on South and North aspect. We had a 20m ish shooting crack long on a convex roll. Shooting cracks was only associated with the new snow. The snowpack under it was stable. We avoided slopes steeper than 30 degrees to manage the risk. Thigh deep, face shots and lot of fun!