Go North!

With clear skies and light winds in the forecast we headed up the Jarvis drainage in search of north facing powder. A thin breakable crust exists on the surface until around 900 m on all aspects and to mountain top on solar aspects. North facing slopes held ~30 cm of soft settled powder on the surface. We saw evidence of a natural avalanche cycle consisting of storm slabs up to size 2 on north facing terrain, that likely occurred last week during the storm. There was also a natural wet loose and storm slab cycle up to size 1.5 on steep solar aspects from strong sun yesterday. High north facing terrain was the sweet spot for good riding, and conditions were awesome! We dug a test profile before committing to steeper terrain and got a non propagating result down 30 cm, which is likely a storm slab interface that the natural cycle occurred on a week ago. There was also several large natural cornice falls from the past week and with strong solar and warm temps we stayed well away from any big overhead hazard. Overall a beautiful day with wonderful powder skiing 🤠