K-Country Skiing pretty awesome despite shallow snowpack

Mountain Conditions Report

<p>Skied in the Black Prince/Hero zone today. Spectacular and sunny, utterly calm with a low of -8 C and high of +4 C.</p> <p>Today we skied open alpine slopes up to 35 degrees. It's very rugged in the trees, especially off existing tracks, where snow levels taper to less than 40 cm.</p> <p>There's a shallow (&lt;100 cm) and heavily faceted snow pack with big surface hoar well up into the alpine. The underlying melt-freeze crusts from last month's deluges still carry pretty well except down below treeline where it's all rotting away.</p> <p>In the alpine the only recent avalanche activity was on steep south aspects from yesterday afternoon. We saw an old 30 cm crown below a large cornice on a windloaded feature that had run naturally during the last storm over a week ago.</p> <p>Needless to say it will be exciting when it snows again, but for now skiing is pretty darned good in the open alpine. Tracks are pretty much everywhere.</p> <p>Regards,<br /> Tom Wolfe<br /> Mountain Guide ACMG/IFMGA</p>