Dick Creek

We travelled up the Dick Creek drainage today. There are a lot of good options for skiing up here! After travelling to the pocket glacier at the top of the drainage, we skinned up to the NE facing ridge of Kusawak at 2000 m. On the descent we were able to ski-cut two Sz 1-1.5 windslabs, both of which entrained a fair amount of storm snow and ran through terrain to valley bottom. Wind slabs remain reactive in specific lee terrain features! There was some loose-wet solar induced slides in the early afternoon, but ridgetop temperatures were -10 c at noon, 2 c at highway elevations. It is a good time to start thinking about early starts and finishes as we slide into spring.

Ski cut of windslab in specific lee feature in alpine.