Copper Bowl

Simon Trudel , Wednesday 6th March, 2024 10:10PM

Considering the elevated hazard and SPAW, we did a mellow tour which brought us to the top of "Ski Hill Peak". We had some wumpfs as we climbed along the creek, and on the slope above Copper pass. Apart from the avalanche path that slide below Pilot Mtn and ran all the way to the Redearth Creek trail (see Avalanche tab), we did not see recent activity, but visibility wasn't great. We skied the very mellow SE face slopes back to the drainage; these slopes had good snow once passed the windblown summit. A good, albeit sloggy objective in elevated hazard conditions.

as we skinned up along Redearth Creek trail the avalanche path crossed at around 3.8 km from TH below Pilot Mtn had slid and ~3 m of debris appear to cover trail (may be cumulative from many slides). Trees were also taken down and laid on the trail on the northern end of the slide path (see pic). Was not clear with our visibility to determine the start zone, nor was it obvious when the path actually slid. But the lodge staff we saw on skidoos thought it was worth mentioning to us that the path slid, so assume it was recent.