Quick report
- Red Flags
- Recent Avalanches, Wind Loading, Cracking, Poor Snowpack Structure
- Red Flags Comment
- <p>Lots of red flags, so god terrain and travel choices are the answer.</p>
Left Brighton Resort from the Milly gate, battled the wind up the ridge on the boot pack to Milly peak. Then traversed the ridge to Wolverine Bowl. Made a nice low angle run through the surfy dense powder. Playing it safe we stayed riders right to avoid upper Mary Chutes, and made our way down the lower angle shoulder to Lake Martha with nice creamy turns. Hiked out to the Dog lake chutes for a return run back into the resort. Dog Lake chutes had a slight breakable crust, but still supportable in many locations.
A fair amount of old shallow wet avalanches from the dense snow in steep terrain, but didn't see any large avalanches from the last storm cycle. Some of them could have filled back in from the strong wind, and latest new snow.
Snowpack
Lots of different surfaces out there........Dense Powder, Wind board, rain crust, hard windslabs, and a little bit of powder.
Cornice growth is very evident, they are hard and stubborn, and very suspect.