Snowpack

Mazama Back Bowl

Eric AkerWest Slopes South
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Quick report

No avy observations below 6k' and on W-S-E aspects. No natural or skier trigger wet loose experienced in the back bowl. We barely managed a small, isolated sluff cutting across a 40+ degree slope near the top of the bowl.

Weather

Air Temp
32+
Cloud Cover
few
Wind Loading
none
Recent Snowfall
None
Snow Avail For Transport
none

Light to no wind in the back bowl until about 2pm there was an unsustained moderate wind picking up. Partly cloudy in morning to full sun the rest of the outing.

Snowpack

Ski crampons on the W face climb in the morning. Skiing down E to S aspects in a rotation following the sun until 2pm, we harvested great corn skiing. The exit off Mazama Ridge W face to the valley road was soft at 230pm.