Party Lap on Taiya!

Awesome day up on Taiya during our Skookum AST2 course, there was about 20cm of new snow since yesterday! We did an extended column test on a northeast wind loaded slope at 1450m, there were no significant results. We skied from the sub-summit of Taiya on steep (30-40 degrees) connected north aspects. While travelling on the glacier we probed ~300cm deep. It was mainly sunny and got colder as we gained elevation, there was a light north breeze. There was extensive pin-wheeling on steep south aspects by the end of the day. On our way in we observed many loose dry avalanches (size 1.5) on north and south aspects that occurred overnight. Lots of hoots & hollers on the way down!