Skier remote Fridays: McDermid edition

Planned for a mellow day due to conditions. We found up to 20cm of new snow from Thursday night's storm in the McDermid basin. Walked up a densely treed ridge with no overhead hazard. We performed two snowpack tests on the N aspect of the ridge at 1725m and got a moderate sudden planar result in a column test, and a hard result that did not propagate across an extended column, both on the Jan 24 SH/FC layer. While skinning up the ridge, we triggered multiple size 1.5 avalanches remotely from 5-15m away on the steeper slope off the ridge. Avalanches were on a N wind loaded aspect with open trees and failed 60cm down on the Jan 24 SH/FC layer above a pencil crust. Start zones between 1750-1950m. They ran fast and far with crowns up to 1m deep in places and triggered more slabs further down the slope. Good day for skiing ridges and low angle pow.

CTM (15) SP down 60 on SH/FC above pencil crust. ECTN (26) down 60 on SH/FC above pencil crust. 20cm of new snow from last 24h sits on top of 40cm of 4F- facetted powder above the Jan 24 SH/FC layer.