Nak. Thar. Snack Bar.

Beautiful sunny day on the Coquihalla with chilly spring temps (-7C) and light northerly winds. Climbed up to Nak-Thar col around 1825 m by the south shoulder on crusty and/ or spring snow. Skied a NW bowl where we found pockets of dense powder in the most shaded and sheltered areas amongst wind-affected surfaces. Our exit down Falls Lake trail was icy and quite speedy. No new avalanches were observed today, but evidence of a wet cycle (from last weekend) was still visible. As a snack bar offers a variety of food, we found a variety of snow conditions: melt-freeze crust on south facing slopes, wind-affected snow on north facing slopes, sastrugis on open alpine slopes, pockets of dense powder in protected areas and icy slopes at lower elevations.

Test profil on NW alpine slope. Height of snow: 205. Surface was crusty. Had a compression test result (resistant planar) down 16 within decomposed fragmented crystal on a thin sun crust. No other significant result.