early season snow condtions

Mountain Conditions Report

<p>With the recent storms seeming to have caked the alpine, curiosity took over and we went up for a look in the alpine today around mt fee.<br /> Snow level roughly starts at 1300m throughout the sea to sky with skin-able conditions through the trees but not the best conditions for downhill sliding through the forest.<br /> Snow depths increase to about 60cm of settled snow at 1600m and increases to a max depth of 140cm in the alpine. Snow surface is a mix of cold snow, sun crust and sastrugi in exposed areas.<br /> Over the course of the day we observed loose wet slides to sz2 on solar aspects and had moderate E winds at ridgeline that were creating windslabs on west faces. My partner ski cut a sz1.5 soft windslab on our last run.<br /> While the snowpack is generally well settled and rides well in sheltered areas, there's plenty of shallow spots and sharks lurking under the surface.<br /> The possibility for turns exist for the motivated but check your speed and pick your lines wisely, as a crash or slide in the wrong place could be very ugly. </p> <p>Great to be in the alpine on a gorgeous day for the start (hopefully) of a long season.</p>