Spicy on the Shoulder

Sled skiing up on Begbie Shoulder today, things got electric! As we ascended the ridge we felt several large settlements. Warm temperatures throughout the day caused rapid settlement in the upper storm snow. We played it quite safe and stuck to lower-angle tree skiing, but any small steep rolls above 35 degrees produced small slab avalanches on a storm interface down 20 cm or a surface hoar layer down 40 cm. Nov 21st interface showed propagating results in snowpack tests down 110cm. Things really changed out there today, play safe!

Warm temps today caused rapid settlement in the upper storm snow. Anything above 35 degrees was failing on a storm interface down 20 cm or surface hoar (Dec 5th) down 40cm.

Experienced a large settlement and cracking on a roll in trees while uptracking. Upon investigation, we got the following test results: ECTP5 down 20 cm on storm slab interface ECTP12 down 40 cm on surface hoar (Dec 5th) below recent storm snow ECTP22 down 110 cm on Nov 21st facet interface