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Prayer Flags slab

Published
Apr 7th, 2022 11:00 AM
travisluvsbikes
Sea To Sky
Details

Type

quick

Coordinates

54.501809, -128.961430

Quick Observation

Shames was stormy all day. Soft snow rt to lodge. 40 to 50 cm's over night at top tee. Very light wind today. Up to 1 cm/hr or more through out the day. Prayer flags ski cut produced rapid soft slab results. See pic in Avi report section. So pushed over to trees lt of Mary's run. Fluff snow rt to valley bottom. Lg rumbles from Valley of Doom as day went on. Temp rise had surface snow getting a bit moist. Classic Shames deep powder day with every piece of your person wet by days end. Still able to cut down to crusty layer on Hangover on last run out with sharp turns up top.

Avalanche Information

Skier cut just below ridge and soft slab released along entire cut and zipped back 10 m's from start point. Ran through trees and continued down slope for up to 75m's.