Golly, What A Day ??

It was a day for the books at the Torpy! We arrived to 50cm of cold, dry snow from this weekend’s storm and blue skies. With snow this amazing, we couldn’t help burning some donuts in the meadows before heading out for our ski. The westerly winds that had loaded slopes during the storm switched to the north today and began reverse loading slopes. This meant that most exposed slopes in the alpine and upper tree line had developed wind slabs. While most the snow was too soft and dry to form slab avalanches, we avoided any pockets where the snow felt denser or showed signs of cracking. We picked a line that was sheltered from the wind and enjoyed blower pow all the way to the bottom!