Keith's Hut

<p>Skinned and hiked the summer trail, although I expect the winter trail will be good to go after this next dump. Could skin from the car, but in the trees coverage was very low, and it mostly made sense to hike. Coverage at the hut elevation was around 50cm, up to 100cm on the lee side of the ridge. Sunday felt like 20-40cm of soft moist snow on top of a hard melt-freeze crust. It felt well bonded, and we saw no signs of avalanche activity or feel any reactivity in our slopes. It became drier above ~1700m. For someone who spends most of his winter in the Rockies, it felt very heavy. 15-20cm fell ovrnight. Little wind affect until higher on the ridge, just leaving TL. The recent storm snow still felt well bonded to the crust, and any slab reactivity seemed to be in thin wind layers in the top 5-10cms. We heard a loud avalanche while on the ridge, seemingly to the NW, but we couldn't see anything due to poor vis. Some cracking and small wind lam results coming down the windward side of the ridge (towards the moraine), but the biggest hazard were the rocks just barely covered up. </p>

Terrain Ridden

Mellow slopes, Open trees.

Terrain Avoided

Alpine slopes.

Avalanche Conditions

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

Slab avalanches today or yesterday.

Snow Conditions

Heavy, Deep powder.

Weather Conditions

Windy, Cloudy.