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Playing Hookie on a Monday

Published
Feb 16th, 2026 11:00 AM
esker.norman
White Pass West
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Type

quick

Coordinates

59.703664, -135.094834

Quick Observation
From Tiny Town parking area to 1000m found +\-20cm of unconsolidated powder sitting on top of a supportive crust. Above this, everything was heavily wind affected with pockets of reactive wind slab hanging onto particular features that could manage to hold snow (observed up to our highest point of 1260). Starting around 1230h had increasingly heavy North winds with heavily rolling ridge top snow (estimated gusting to 60-70km/hr at highest). In the areas less impacted by the wind (below 1000m, windward (currently N) side of the ridge, just above and within TL) riding was quite fun. We stayed low angel today with the wide range of wind directions lately leading to low certainty on the highest likelihood zones for windslab formation.
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