Mount Cleveland SE

<p>We skied from the Feather Parking lot (910 m) to Mount Cleveland SE Summit area (1673 m). Weather: Clear skies, cold temps (-20c) for most of the day and moderate Northerly winds. Snow transport most noticeable around 1220 m. The snow was variable, but skiable, today. In terms of avalanches, the most interesting thing we saw in the snowpack today was few whumpfs and a few very small, loaded features were being remotely triggered by us (such as small cornices over rocks). All on easterly aspects at around 1240 m. Skiing up to the glacier (NE aspect) we found 1.5 m of snow and variable snow. Lower down a thin, breakable wind skin sat over 10 cm of new snow above a crust which was unpenetrable to a ski pole (this skied fairly well). Higher up the snow became variable with harder, wind affected snow dispersed with pockets of softer snow throughout the slope. There was about 30 cm of this chalky, wind affected snow overlying a harder layer. The terrain we skied on the glacier was fairly planar and supported, and we did not experience any shooting cracks or whumpfing in this snow. This wasn't the best skiing, but it wasn't exactly the worst either. Returning back to the car, we found that the NE slopes at TL were the best skiing of the day (thin wind crust overlying 10 cm of new snow above a hard crust). We stayed away from skiing anything unsupported and loaded thoughout the day and felt that in the right terrain you could have triggered an avalanche. </p>