SUPER BAD

Super touchy today. Easy to trigger storm/wind Slabs especially above 1700m. Skinned to 2000m up the ridge. Wind picked up and storm began to roll in around 11:30am so we turned around and didn’t make the top or the line we wanted to ride down. South aspects had a sun crust and felt slabby on the way up. Skied north facing side of the ridge. At our transition point obvious evidence of recent avalanche activity with a 5-10cm crown above us and a very slick bed surface that it ran on. Avalanche debris went 300m in the gully north of the location point - it was the safest skiing down. Slopes either side of the debris were super touchy. Shooting cracks, and it didn’t take much to have a loose dry slide. We caused several of these to fail when we ski cut. Debris was soft and so we skied this to 1700m where the snowpack improved. You could feel the crust around 1650 and below. Skiing was less touchy.

Avalanche was on northern side of ridge from S winds loading the slope.

Storm rolled in around 11am