On the hunt at Elk

Elk Mountain seemed like a good mid island spot to start our post-storm investigations. We staged sleds at bit early at around km 1.5 so the sled carbides took many hits in the 10-15 cm on the road. It wasn't until 900 m that we found deeper coverage so you can expect your skis will take some rock hits below this elevation too if you're sliding. Once on solid coverage, we found up to about 30, max 40 cm of snow (since Feb 12) on the crust, with the top 15 cm being very pleasant low density powder. Like VERY pleasant. No significant results in our pit, no obvious signs of avalanches in the storm(s) other than a bit of sluffing from cliffs, and no wind slabs to be found where we traveled. Lots of snow available for transport, so unless a crust forms to lock it down, we'd expect a lively problem to develop the next time we get a big wind.