Asulkan

Quick report

Weather

sunny, cold

Ride Type

openTrees, alpineSlopes, denseTrees

Stayed Away

convexSlopes

We skied the dome glacier on Nov 30, from the mouse trap to the base of the glacier is all wind slab and a bit lumpy. We found some nice snow at the base of the glacier. Depth of snow is 200cm on the glacier and there was still a couple of open crevasses on much steeper lookers right aspect. The route to Saphire col had one large open crevasse and many weakly bridged crevasses higher up. Forever young, a variant of the Jupiter Traverse, lookout col to the ravens, Asulkan Pass, and Young's peak have been skied by other parties but nothing down low. The tree triangle had good snow but was getting skied out. A few small slabs (size 1.5) pulled out from north facing alpine faces (~2800m) from the wind event on Wednesday and another set on se aspect of avalanche crest around 2100m (see picture).