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Storm slab turns to wind slab

southrockies, Saturday 8th February, 2025 10:38PM
<p>Today’s skiing brought to you by the Dec 8 crust! Last week's warm temperatures and sunny skies in the Crowsnest, coupled with Wednesday's storm that started warm (rain) have developed a 10 - 15cm knife hard crust. On this crust sits 10 - 15cm of snow that fell after the temperatures dropped below zero. We found variable depth wind slabs at tree line and in the alpine from 5 - 15cm with the deepest wind slab directly lee of ridges and terrain features. We saw a couple of natural wind slab releases out of steep terrain up to size 2. This area still needs more snow, but the few turns we did were surprisingly good.</p>

Terrain Ridden

Alpine slopes, Mellow slopes.

Avalanche Conditions

Slab avalanches today or yesterday.

Whumpfing or drum-like sounds or shooting cracks.

Snow Conditions

Wind affected, Powder.

Weather Conditions

Warm, Sunny.

Location: 49.56660000 -114.55846000