Cabin Peak

calhamnorthway , Thursday 20th February, 2025 4:15PM

Had a fun first run down ridge off cabin peak back to huckleberry through the trees and into main drainage exit. Snow was crusty on top with nice pow underneath, fast crunchy and fun. Second run was straight up from huckleberry through the trees on the SE slope. At just under 1700m moving out into a more open slope with a much former pack than the trees, we heard a loud wumph, with no visible cracks or drop in the snow. We thought it may have been a tree bomb but found no evidence of such. We moved back into the trees where we heard another smaller wumph and made the decision to turn back and ski the tighter trees back to the service road. We did a hand shear on a small steeper micro feature near where we heard the second wumph and found it broke with moderate force at 55cm on what seemed to be buried facets (maybe surface hoar idk I'm not a snow scientist) either way it was enough to say let's GTFO and have a beer at the hut. Other observations are that the temps have been rising today was holding around 0 with some fluctuations depending on the area and wind exposure. Winds were very light. Be safe out there.