Quick report
Today's priority was to practice our rescue skills and thank Whitefish Mountain Resort's Ski Patrollers.
- As Forest Service employees, we are required to practice our beacon skills once a month. Grey Wolf Beacon Park (at WMR) is an excellent place to accomplish this requirement.
- We are incredibly grateful to work with the ski patrol professionals at WMR. They share their daily weather data, which improves the value of our forecasts.
- East of WMR, we traveled to Skook peak to take a look at the various wind-affected surfaces.
- Multiple layers of building cornices (photo) were telling of the winds over the past several days. Cornices were stubborn except for the top thin layer. Those layers looked like diving boards hanging over the main cornices. Rideline surface snow was firm, unsurprisingly.
- We did not have propagating results in our ECT test in our northwesterly snow pit at 6700 feet.
- We skied a sheltered, northwesterly slope. We made some nice turns in the top soft snow with a little harmless stuffing.
Harmless sluffing in recent 2 inches of soft snow.
Weather
- Air Temp
- 20
- Cloud Cover
- broken
- Wind Loading
- previous
- Recent Snowfall
- 2 inches of recent snow
- Snow Avail For Transport
- small smounts
Most of the day was calm winds. Light snowfall around midday, but it didn't seem to accumulate. The afternoon had periods of sun, but temperatures remained below freezing.