Cloudy Cameron

AvCan Vancouver Island , Tuesday 25th February, 2025 4:15PM

We headed to the Beauforts today to check on all the new snow that fell overnight, and to see if any of our persistent slab had survived all that rain. We found the snow line has now been pushed up to 800 m, with patchy coverage on the road making it not great for sledding or driving. By 1300 m there was 25 cm of new storm snow sitting on top of the very wet snow from over the weekend. Travel was easy going on this new moist snow. At the top, around 1500 m, we found a similar depth of storm snow. When we dug down we found that the facets, which are 100 to 150 cm deep, are rounding and the snowpack is generally healed. There was lots of evidence of a natural cycle of avalanches that occurred over the weekend, some of them were large. The wind is already doing its work on the ridge tops forming crusts. Most of this new snow is too heavy and wet to be moved around.