Quick report
Skied in the Cardiac area and the Ivory Flakes area today, I’m thinking the new snow instabilities are a thing of the past and the storm snow has mostly settled out and stabilized, there’s about 3 meters of snow on the ground in upper Cardiac, but the outliers with a thin snow pack in rocky steep terrain are still suspect in my opinion. Warming temperatures might also become problematic on steep sunny slopes on the S end of the compass. The wind was blowing moderately throughout the day and if this continues new wind slabs may become a issue on steep wind loaded slopes.
Photos: the wind filling in the skin track as fast as you could break it in the afternoon on Ivory Flakes, and Mark Staples head director of the UAC doing his own stability testing
Snowpack
The snow on the NE facing seemed a little less punchy or inverted today, a good term that comes to mind is surfy with some light density on top. There was some wind skin in certain locations mainly on the W facing. I thought the S might be crusted this morning but it wasn’t on the S facing across the street from Alta but I think the sun definitely got to it today. There was some wind damage down low under Kessler on our exit out BCC.