Blue skies, powder snow

<p>Skied Jumbo Pass area today. A stunner day with excellent skiing and good stability in areas we travelled. There was a supportive crust down 10cm to ~1900m. Above 1900m there was 15 to 20cm of low density storm snow over a well consolidated upper snowpack, making for great "fast" powder skiing. We mostly avoided the alpine due to visible wind-affect up there. We skied a number of steep lines at treeline and below treeline and saw no signs of instability, with the exception of some small pockets of windslab in exposed cliffy terrain around 2100m, east aspect. We also dug a quick profile at 2200m, east aspect (See snowpack tab). </p>

Terrain Ridden

Open trees, Steep slopes.

Terrain Avoided

Alpine slopes.

Snow Conditions

Powder, Wind affected.

Weather Conditions

Cold, Sunny.