New Year. New Snow.
Yukon Field Team,
Wednesday 4th January, 2023 6:50AM
<p>The New Year's weekend storm delivered 30-40cm of new snow in White Pass. For this most part, the bond between the new snow snow and old surfaces seems good. That being said, there must have been additional wind in at higher alpine elevations as we observed evidence of a wind slab avalanche cycle isolated to steep, cross loaded, northeast facing alpine gullies. These were mostly size 1+ avalanches but one ran quite far and resulted in a deposition up to 150cm deep so we classified it as size 2. These avalanche observations and quite flat light resulted in us riding smaller, supported, lower angle slopes but the riding was 10/10 over the headlights. </p>
Terrain Ridden
Alpine slopes, Mellow slopes.
Terrain Avoided
Convex slopes.
Avalanche Conditions
Slab avalanches today or yesterday.
30cm + of new snow, or significant drifting, or rain in the last 48 hours.
Snow Conditions
Deep powder, Wind affected.
Weather Conditions
Cloudy.
Location: 59.70458000 -135.13955000