Red Heather Storm Snow

osinskiandrew, Friday 10th February, 2023 6:30PM

<p>Decent skiing with careful terrain choices. Snow was generally heavy, tough to get a turn going. Tacky and grippy underfoot, like having the brakes on, especially at lower elevations. Some other users skied bolder lines. </p>

Weather Report

<p>No blowing snow. Some mixed precipitation at higher elevations in the morning, sometimes grainy snow, sometimes large flakes, sometimes sleety ice pellets. Fog lifted to high broken cloud, then patches of sun by early-afternoon. Lower elevations (eg the road before the Red Heather hut) got pretty wet in the early afternoon. Car thermometer was claiming 4 at the parking lot. </p>

Terrain Ridden

Mellow slopes, Open trees.

Terrain Avoided

Alpine slopes, Convex slopes, Steep slopes.

Avalanche Conditions

30cm + of new snow, or significant drifting, or rain in the last 48 hours.

Rapid temperature rise to near zero degrees or wet surface snow.

Snow Conditions

Deep powder, Heavy, Powder, Wet.

Weather Conditions

Cloudy, Foggy, Warm, Wet.

Location: 49.76164000 -123.03525000