It's better elsewhere...

<p>Not much improvement in this area from when we were out here last week. Still getting shooting cracks for over 30m when undercutting small road banks with the sleds. We experienced whumpfing along the way as well. We didn't want to expose ourselves to any big road banks or steep slopes at all and only made it up to 1830m at a cutblock before turing back. We dug a quick text profile and found the culprit to be large surface hoar crystals near the base of the snowpack down around 75cm (see photo). Views of Erickson Ridge showed several slab avalanches out size 2 to 3 that had ran in the last few days. We suspect they ran on the deep persistent weak layer of surface hoar but could not confirm from far away. In our option, both the riding quality and the snowpack is better in the neighboring bulletin region of the Lizard Range and Flathead. </p>

Avalanche Conditions

Slab avalanches today or yesterday.

Whumpfing or drum-like sounds or shooting cracks.