Musical bumps Whistler
Quick reportchris.lawrence · Dec 21, 2017 · Spearhead
Quick report
- Weather
- sunny, cold, windy
- Ride Type
- denseTrees, alpineSlopes
- Stayed Away
- alpineSlopes
- Riding Quality
- good
- Snow Conditions
- powder, crusty, hard, windAffected
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionSnow
The alpine is wind hammered with 1 meter high sastrugi in places where it was raked for 2 days by extreme nw winds. The riding quality below tree line is quite good. We rode 1900 - 1500 on n aspects with good ground coverage and great Ski quality. Coverage gets sparse below 1500 but still reasonable to 1300 m. Snow profile 1750 m nw aspect. 170-190 cm depth. Mid dec down 45 cm with new snow bonding well to the old surface, below lies 1 finger snow. The late November rain crust is down 70 with the lower snowpack well settled. ECTX (no results) CTN (no result).