Glacier Creek, Purcell Mountains

Quick report

Weather

cold, cloudy

Ride Type

mellowSlopes, alpineSlopes, convexSlopes

Stayed Away

steepSlopes

Riding Quality

good

Snow Conditions

powder

Avalanche Conditions

avalancheConditionSlab

Great early season ski touring day on the East Cauldron Glacier up the south fork of Glacier creek in the Purcell Mountains. We drove to the Jumbo pass trail-head and skied up the South fork road to back end of valley. There was 70cm of snow at 1800m, 160cm at 2400m and 200cm+ at 2800m. We skied north smooth north facing glaciers and treeline terrain. there was about 20-30cm of evenly distributed soft snow overlying a firm base. Various test showed no significant results. The November 13th crust was down 50-60cm and well defined up to 2400m. It was less obvious above.