Girls just wanna.... feel the sun on their faces

Yukon Field Team , Monday 3rd February, 2025 4:15PM

Outflow winds have extensively affected the snow surface. This makes riding snowmobiles challenging, but we bet you could still find some chalky ski turns. Today we avoided steep, convex south-facing features where stiff wind slabs exist. We saw evidence of older wind slabs which happened naturally over the weekend on steep, south-facing gully features. We dug to investigate the persistent weak layer and while we didn't get any results in Extended Column Tests we did get a propagating result in a Propagation Saw Test. The layer is 95 cm deep at 1200 m in the Fraser Chutes area. While reactivity on this layer does appear to be decreasing, we are still avoiding shallow, and thin-to-thick start zones where the layer would be easier to trigger. There is also the potential that a wind slab avalanche could step down to trigger this layer.