Spectacular St Mary's Summits ☀️

<p>We had a great day exploring up the St. Mary's. Video summary of our mindset and approach to day here: https://youtube.com/shorts/notEZjdDKVc?feature=share The last info we had from this area was of very large natural and human triggered avalanches about a month ago. Today we targeted one of the deeper snow zones and found a rather strong and well bonded snowpack. That being said, we were really working the terrain to avoid areas that were shallow and rocky as those are the places where it may still be possible to trigger the deeper persistent slab avalanches. We certainly wouldn't extrapolate our findings today across the Purcells, but we were pleasantly surprised to put a nice day of skiing and snow nerding together. </p>

Terrain Avoided

Convex slopes.

Avalanche Conditions

Whumpfing or drum-like sounds or shooting cracks.

Snow Conditions

Powder.

Weather Conditions

Sunny.