Hilda Sastrugi

Quick report

Weather

warm, sunny

Ride Type

steepSlopes, alpineSlopes, denseTrees, openTrees

Riding Quality

good

Snow Conditions

windAffected, powder

Avalanche Conditions

avalancheConditionSound

We skinned up into the alpine in the morning, skied the bowl and then the trees above the creek for the afternoon. At treeline, 120-140cm base. There was some isolated whumpfing in sheltered south facing mellow areas at treeline (seemed like sun affect/wind slab). Everywhere else treeline and higher (on all aspects) that wasn’t sheltered had lots of sastrugi, which was rock hard and made fast skiing (and required bootpacking at the top). There was (fast) loose snow, but only in the trees. We didn’t ski the north ridge, but conditions there looked like they alternated between wind pocket and sastrugi on all aspects we could see