We pushed our way up into the park

<p>We saw 50 cm new snow recorded on the weather station at upper Cruickshank this morning, and we just had to go see it with our own eyes. At 400 m on the road there was 4cm of new snow, this quickly increased as we headed up the ridge. By 1000m there was around 50cm of new snow sitting on our saturated snow soup that exists from our previous rain events. By 1100 m this was a semi supportive crust to walking, and by 1200 m it was fully supportive to walking in boots. We skinned up to 1400 m and found 63 cm of glorious soft new powder. In our snowpack tests we found no results, however we still stayed away from isolated steep features and terrain traps as there were multiple small avalanches with the top 10-20 cm of the storm snow involved. We did not get up to the alpine to be able to assess the presence of wind slabs.</p>

Terrain Ridden

Mellow slopes, Open trees, Sunny slopes.

Terrain Avoided

Alpine slopes.

Avalanche Conditions

30cm + of new snow, or significant drifting, or rain in the last 48 hours.

Snow Conditions

Deep powder.

Weather Conditions

Sunny.