Lovat Scout Area

Greg Rantala, Saturday 16th January, 2021 7:25PM

<p>Snow conditions at tree line and below on the N/NE aspects are excellent - storm snow has settled into a 20cm layer on a supportive snowpack. No instabilities noted during the outing. Observations of Alpine is of course wind hammered/scoured and definitely new developments of cross slope wind loading on the west/southwest aspects in any exposed areas over the past week. </p>

Weather Report

<p>By mid afternoon cloud cover rolled in and it looked to be the potential conditions for some isolated flurry development. </p>

Terrain Ridden

Mellow slopes, Dense trees, Open trees.

Terrain Avoided

Alpine slopes.

Snow Conditions

Wind affected, Powder.

Weather Conditions

Cold, Cloudy, Sunny.

Location: 52.69782366 -117.67990554