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Touchy surface hoar and great skiing

Published
Dec 20th, 2025 12:00 PM
ngottlieb
Shames
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Type

quick

Coordinates

54.506312, -128.788616

Quick Observation
Great skiing at Anderson the last two days. Deep and light powder. We are finding a very reactive surface hoar layer buried by Thursdays snow down 15-20cm, becoming more reactive as you descend. Shooting cracks, wide propagation for the features in question, and slabs to size 1, worst in the 1000-1200 band. Could easily cause a serious situation in steep treed terrain. Seems widespread around Anderson but people would have reported it if it was active at Shames so maybe just localized. -18c at the cabin this morning, new surface hoar on the snow surface Since Thursday as well in most places.