Winter/Spring

Significantly more snow on that side of the ridge compare to Shames with a 50cm+ of available powder. Surprinsingly light in the morning, and as expected much more satured and heavy in the afternoon and closer to the S/SW aspects just above Shames. I found the snow in steep terrain to bond relatively well with the previous layers, although we didn’t touch any big features above in the ALP, also knowing what we skied is not representative of what’s happening in the area right now (aka propagation and really deep (up to 1m25 deep crown) size 2.5+ slab avalanches the day before). We did produce wet loose avalanches in Fay-zurs and the V towards the end of the day, but didn’t experienced shooting cracks or whumphings in most of the terrain we traveled. The day started with S11 and tapered down and back up, on and off, same with the sun and fog/light clouds. Light NW wind at ridgetop, lesser than the day before (50km/h SW winds).