Little Yoho
Wapta
Skied the Wapta starting from Bow. Thin ice on Bow lake so we skied around on the summer trail. We made it through Bow canyon with dry feet rockhopping and on thin snowbridges but by today the bridges are probably gone. Water shoes recommended.
Average ~250cm coverage on the icefields, on Balfour col we took the route near the Nunatak and had no problems. Snow still dry on high North, wind/sun affected and variable elsewhere.
Big crown line and debris from cornice triggered size 3 on May 1st running off of Balfour
Descending via Sherbrooke creek took about half a day, found ok coverage down to upper meadows. Avoided the canyon before Sherbrooke lk by going East through the trees. No snowbridges left in the canyon and looks like a rappell would be required to get past the cliffbands near the waterfall.
At Sherbrooke lake we saw wet looking tracks from previous skiers that broke through the ice, we followed the summer trail along the shore.
Not enough snow to ski below Sherbrooke lake, we walked for the last ~2.5k.
cmurrayschlitt,
Sunday 11th May, 2025 11:00PM
Facets in play
High north still has minimal to no bridging crust and had us wary of the deep persistent problem. Probing showed a poor structure, and quick tests were failing on isolation in the facets anywhere from 50-120cm down. Spring is usually a great time to get after it but beware the norths, despite the great ski quality.
snow,
Tuesday 6th May, 2025 2:00PM
Balfour E face cornice full depth
abarth,
Friday 2nd May, 2025 9:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 28th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 28th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Published: Apr 28th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Published: Apr 28th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Published: Apr 28th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Published: Apr 27th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 26th, 2025Daly/Niles Deep Slabs
Both Avalanches were seen today while exiting the Scott Duncan Hut. Likely occurred Fri Apr 25.
Niles Shoulder One sz 2.5
East 2500m
Cornice Triggered in the heat and pulled moist slab to ground.
Daly steep face Few sz 2
West 2800m
Temp triggered, propagating across thick to thin areas and down to ground
Dry powder found NW-NE aspects above 2600m on Friday.
michael_mariash,
Saturday 26th April, 2025 10:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Cornices.
Published: Apr 25th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Cornices.
Published: Apr 24th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Cornices.
Published: Apr 23rd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 22nd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Loose Dry.
Published: Apr 21st, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Published: Apr 20th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Published: Apr 19th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Published: Apr 19th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 18th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 17th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 17th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 16th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 15th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 15th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Loose Wet, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 14th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Loose Wet, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 14th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Loose Wet, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 13th, 2025Mt Field
clongbone,
Saturday 12th April, 2025 11:00PM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 12th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 11th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 11th, 2025Bow-Yo April 7-11
Bow-Yo. April 7-11
Good conditions from Bow Lake to Stanley Mitchell Hut. Crevasses generally well-bridged. Ski pen only 10-15cm on most terrain. 3m+ HS at high point above Collie crevasse field. We encountered wind slab in some lee areas, particularly where you leave the Yoho Glacier to access the ridge to Guy Hut where we released a small slab of storm snow. Isolated Col was in good shape and most parties were climbing up the gut rather than the ridge line. We found great skiing on the line between The President and The Vice President. North aspects were generally good powder. We skied out the Iceline to Emerald Lake where conditions were very poor. All good until Yoho Lake, then we found isothermic conditions from there down to Emerald Lake. Plenty of exposed rock and trees. Travel was slow and frustrating.
GordFerguson,
Friday 11th April, 2025 4:00PM
Mt Daly-Niles
20-25cm snow on top of thin supportive P hard crust.
Isolated cracking in freshly wind pillowed Isolated-specific locations N-E asp from Wednesdays strong gusty winds.
Evidence of large-v large wet slides in Niles drainage, likely from last weekends warm up.
micah,
Thursday 10th April, 2025 7:00PM
Cornice Fall Avalanche Mt. Field - Mt. Wapta Ridge.
kenski58,
Thursday 10th April, 2025 6:00PM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 10th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 9th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Wind Slabs, Persistent Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 9th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 8th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Wind Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 8th, 2025Still Crusty Ogden Bench
12cm of new snow on top of a crust. The crust can’t fully support the weight of a skier nor snowboarder at some area. Makes the decent more harduous. We watched an avalanche on skier’s right coming from the overhead cliffs down a really steep shout (natural trigerred from probably corniche and/or new snow from last night and this morning).
Skiing trough the sparse trees at the bottom of the slope is pretty amazing. Still can feel the crust but snow pack is deep enough to be able to ski whithout thinking of bottom hazards.
Signs of an old avalanche size 2.5 is in the pictures. We can clearly see the crown of it and it was triggered from the very top of skiers right. Debris are left at the middle of the way (bottom plateau)
nicolashochereau,
Tuesday 8th April, 2025 10:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 7th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 7th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 6th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Loose Wet, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 6th, 2025Wapta - Yoho Conditions photos
Wapta Icefield/ Bow/Yoho Conditions, April 3-6 2025. Headed into Bow Hut night 1, then Guy Hut for 2 nights, then back to Bow Lake. Weather was sublime, didn't see a cloud for 4 days. The snow held up quite well in the alpine, was a bit worried about daytime heat but it had minimal effect up high on everything but steep south faces. Excellent coverage everywhere. Some wind over the weekend slowly deteriorated ski quality but it remained mostly decent overall. I didn't fully trust the steep big slopes yet but seems that stability is improving overall. Minimal but some natural activity up high. Probed 280cm above The Onion and 320cm at the high point before heading down to Guy Hut. My first time at Guy Hut, quite an interesting route over the ridge, would be exciting in a whiteout. I took photos of everything in the area I could think of, have a look.
jake.finnan,
Sunday 6th April, 2025 9:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 5th, 2025Gordon
Busy up on the Wapta today.
Good over night freeze. Temps were well into the positives by the time we returned to the parking lot around 1:00pm.
Evidence of many slab avalanches from last 48 hours particularly on steep, rocky, unsupported terrain on all aspects. Some wind loading.
Good skiing was found where the snow was cold. Sun effected aspects were starting to develop a crust and becoming heavy lower down.
Coverage on the glacier was much better than expected.
skiier227,
Friday 4th April, 2025 11:00PM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 4th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 4th, 2025Top Hat
Beautiful day on Top Hat traverse.
Ski crampons are handy to have on the trail in the trees up to about 1800m. We also did a short boot pack on refrozen avy debris within 20min of Hamilton lake due to firm snow and a steep section of trail.
Snow on the upper north facing pitch was excellent dry powder, about 30cm below which a supportive slab starts, as described in the forecast. We stayed away from convex features and broke up the run into sections of supported terrain.
Lots of evidence of large natural avalanches on east facing terrain, steep cliffs and even far skiers right coming off the col. Challenging skiing on frozen avy debris starting around 2100m and on the traverse right above the choke, as well as a section exiting onto the flats. But interspersed with fun corn snow too!
Creek exit was mostly cruisy on firm crust, but sections of the creek have been affected by slides to ground.
jsweaterfuzz,
Friday 4th April, 2025 7:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Apr 3rd, 2025MT Field
Skied Mt Field today Apr 3, -6°C to start @730am. Forest shortcut well supported, not too icy no crampons. Climb very straightforward into alpine, 4th skier climbing across head wall at upper pitch released small sz 1, also similar release in storm snow skiing down steep roll in upper alpine (pictured). Snow remained dry to 1900m @ 2pm, supportive all the way to car at 330pm
m_lab,
Thursday 3rd April, 2025 7:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 2nd, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs.
Published: Apr 1st, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Loose Wet, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 31st, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Storm Slabs, Loose Wet, Persistent Slabs.
Published: Mar 31st, 2025Tophat North
South aspects were still shedding ice/rocks off the large clifs just north of the tophat descent.
seantropsa,
Monday 31st March, 2025 1:00PM
Tophat South
Travel was fast and easy up southerly aspects, loose dry snow in shaded areas above 1800m
seantropsa,
Monday 31st March, 2025 6:00AM
Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Storm Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Mar 30th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Storm Slabs, Loose Dry.
Published: Mar 29th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Storm Slabs.
Published: Mar 28th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Storm Slabs.
Published: Mar 28th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Storm Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Mar 27th, 2025Avalanche Forecast
Problems: Persistent Slabs, Storm Slabs, Loose Wet.
Published: Mar 26th, 2025Guinness Gully natural avalanche
Parks Canada Visitor Safety,
Wednesday 26th March, 2025 12:00PM
Masseys ice climb avalanche
Parks Canada Visitor Safety,
Wednesday 26th March, 2025 11:00AM
Takakaw Falls profile BTL
March 13 and 3 crusts disappear by 2000m. Limited evidence of recent avalanche activity in the area.
Parks Canada Visitor Safety,
Saturday 15th March, 2025 10:28AM
Stanley Mitchell Hut area
Skied in the Stanley Mitchell hut area after bailing on the Bow-Yoho due to poor avy conditions. Stayed on south facing slopes where there is a strong supportable crust layer under the 30+cm of new snow from this week. Wumphing was felt occasionally and a few small pockets were noted to have slid in the trees. Large slides were observed across the valley in the alpine. We stayed to mellow slopes in the trees. Low angle pow provided good riding.
michelaadrian,
Thursday 13th March, 2025 11:30AM
Avalanche Control on Mt Bosworth and Mt Stephen, Monday, March 10
Parks Canada will be conducting avalanche control on Mt Bosworth and Mt Stephen on Monday, March 10. These areas will be closed to the public on March 10.
Parks Canada Visitor Safety,
Sunday 9th March, 2025 9:00PM
Size one sluff
JanM,
Sunday 9th March, 2025 11:33AM
Bust on breakable crust
Storm track missed. Maybe a couple cm on awful breakable crust. Terrible travel and ski conditions.
At least it was super windy!
Charlie Kelly, King of the Rats,
Sunday 9th March, 2025 11:00AM
Emerald
Skied up to Hamilton lake via summer trail on an attempt for top hat traverse. There were several old slides with large block avalanche debris likely from the recent SPAW period that slowed travel. Decided to bail on alpine and backtrack, traversed to emerald slide path which looked ok but skied horrendously on hard pack with a grabby crust.
jar3tt,
Saturday 8th March, 2025 9:00AM
Pulpit Nob 1
Terrible ski conditions at Pulpit 1. 10~cm of fresh over a hard icy crust, that would often disappear and become unsupportive snow to ground(likely the micro affects of shade). Very hard to ski conditions. Our tracks had about 3cm on them by the time we got back to the car. Putting my big skis away for the season…
colinhoglund13,
Saturday 8th March, 2025 8:00AM
Ogden shoulder
With strong winds and snowfall throughout the day, we made it up to the south shoulder before deciding to head back down. Swirling winds from every direction, poor visibilty and punchy snow in spots made our decision an easy one. 3-5cm of new snow on top of the recent storm snow made for great skiing all the way down to the lake. Temps warmed up as we decended turning snow to rain near the bottom.
Pocketbagel,
Thursday 27th February, 2025 8:00AM
Avalanche Control Results - Field Area
Parks Canada conducted avalanche control today on Mt. Field, Stephen and Dennis. 10/12 shots produced slab avalanches up to size 3 failing on the Jan. 30th persistent weak layer. This layer was ~ 40 cm deep in this area. We saw good propagations with most of these avalanches.
We also saw 2-3 natural avalanches on the Mt. Field ski tour to size 2 that ran sometime during the storm.
For Ice Climbers: We put shots above Pilsner and Carlsberg and triggered a size 2.5 that ran over Pilsner and beside Carlsberg. We also put a shot near Guinness Stout and had no result.
Parks Canada Visitor Safety,
Wednesday 26th February, 2025 3:00PM
Avalanche Control in Yoho Park on Wednesday, Feb. 26. Mt Stephen, Dennis and Mt Field will be closed.
Parks Canada Visitor Safety,
Tuesday 25th February, 2025 3:00PM
Tak Fall Plot Snow Profile
HST was well settled, made for fast skiing. Didn't see any natural avalanche activity but occasionally broke through to the facets below while breaking trail.
Parks Canada Visitor Safety,
Tuesday 25th February, 2025 10:00AM
Pulpit
Day up at Pulpit. Punching through to the base pretty easily. Breaking trail on unsupported snow.
Below tree line and within the trees no shooting cracks or whumpfing. Shooting cracks near the ridge and open areas around treeline. Small skier triggered pocket in photo. Above treeline, open areas immediately displayed signs of instability when approached closely.
Avalanche off headwall between p3 and p4 once back in the valley around 3pm just as the sun was out for a bit.
info,
Sunday 23rd February, 2025 11:00PM
Avalanche at Pilsner Pillar Area
braydonmackenzie,
Sunday 23rd February, 2025 5:15PM
Facetnating Pulpit 1
Toured up Pulpit 1 with intention to check out North Bowl between Pulpit 1 and Pulpit Peak.
Dug 2 snow profiles:
Profile on South Aspect at 2180m: CT(1). ECTP(3). Failed on facets above suncrust layer 30cm deep.
Profile on North aspect at 2240m: CTM. Failed on windslab 50cm deep. No suncrust found.
Witnessed avalanche activity in steep terrain, and signs of recent slab avalanches into the North bowl led to decision not to ride North bowl and exit through trees instead. High winds in alpine transporting snow. Shooting cracks and one whomph when stepped off skin track. Triggered a rider accidental 0.5 slab avalanche in steep, treed terrain.
Great to have some snow again.. sweet powder in the trees!!
emma.pettey,
Sunday 23rd February, 2025 2:00PM
Facetnating Pulpit 1
Toured up Pulpit 1 with intention to check out North Bowl between Pulpit 1 and Pulpit Peak.
Dug 2 snow profiles:
Profile on South Aspect at 2180m: CT(1). ECTP(3). Failed on facets above suncrust layer 30cm deep.
Profile on North aspect at 2240m: CTM. Failed on windslab 50cm deep. No suncrust found.
Witnessed avalanche activity in steep terrain, and signs of recent slab avalanches into the North bowl led to decision not to ride North bowl and exit through trees instead. High winds in alpine transporting snow. Shooting cracks and one whomph when stepped off skin track. Triggered a rider accidental 0.5 slab avalanche in steep, treed terrain.
Great to have some snow again.. sweet powder in the trees!!
emma.pettey,
Sunday 23rd February, 2025 2:00PM
Paget Glades
Toured up to approx 1900m on Paget glades today. What felt to be a variable thickness solar crust (thin and punchy) became more pronounced as we got above 1800m. Did a quick hasty pit (1850m, south facing) which showed approx 15cm of powder on top of this crust. Approximately 60cm down was all faceted. On the ride down there were random small slabs, but no signs of instability where we rode. Above our turnaround point the open areas looked to be wind affected. Overall good turns were had, but definitely variable conditions.
RHay,
Sunday 23rd February, 2025 12:00PM
Emerald slide path pit/ski
High temps today were evident, surface snow up to 2 Celsius. Heavy on skis. Dug a pit at 1600m. HS 115cm. Results were CTH4 down 35. ECT did not propagate, but still failed CTH3 down 35. Both failures RP.
Skiing was decent, skied the open trees to skiiers right of main descent/gully. Far less tracks than main descent. Lots of parties going up emerald.
williamhobart0,
Saturday 22nd February, 2025 12:00PM
Pulpit 4 skier accidental
michael.ravensbergen,
Saturday 22nd February, 2025 12:00PM
Pulpit 1 exploration
Decent day exploring around Pulpit 1. Overall impressed with snow quality and stability until we reached alpine slopes. Approached the alpine bowl but turned back due to extremely variable conditions mixing facets, drummy wind slabs with shooting cracks and avy debris from the overhead hazards. Kept things chill in the trees and gully below.
Crossed the lake, mushy surface in the middle of it and some cracking felt.
Watched a huge cornice fall from the top of Waputik, probably wind caused?
monasheemonkee,
Saturday 22nd February, 2025 11:00AM
NE Face of Mt. Field
Good turns on the NE face of Mt. Field. Just enough breeze to make it feel cold even with the sun. Wind affected variable snow in places but lots of powder and everything was soft. Exit gully to the road is fairly skied out. Surface hoar starting to form above 2200m. Small lower down near tree line but 6-7mm grains near the summit. Will be spooky when it gets buried.
jwalsh2019,
Monday 17th February, 2025 11:00AM
Paget Peak
Lots of windslab and rapidly changing temperature though out the day. Triggered two slab avalanches size 1.5-2. Managed to get down safely no one was harmed.
cody.niosi03,
Sunday 16th February, 2025 1:00PM
Ogden Bench and Phantom Couloir
Good turns on the bench and in Phantom. Wind affected snow at the top of the couloir was firm but edge-able. No signs of isolated slabs in the line. Excellent turns in powder on the exit to the lake. The bench has lots of tracks but not skied off by any means. HS 175 at the top of the bench.
jwalsh2019,
Sunday 16th February, 2025 11:00AM
Tophat Traverse
Out on the Tophat Traverse, run down from the col was quite tracked out with ~20-30 of heavy 4F snow in untracked areas. We cut one small sz 1 stiff windslab on NE aspect near the top of the run propogating a few meters and entraining snow for 25m before stopping. Midpack supportive and generally well settled.
Track for exit and approach well set, lots of untouched snow around Hamilton lake and Carnavon for lapping opportunities.
cmurrayschlitt,
Saturday 15th February, 2025 2:00PM
Pulpit Sa Sz1
bgulstene,
Saturday 15th February, 2025 9:00AM
Phantom Couloir
Skied Phantom yesterday. -17 °C at the park in the morning. Upper part of the couloir was compressed snow, still enjoyable but little challenging, bottom was mostly powder. Odgen benches are very tracked but still possible to find fresh tracks. Lots of trees still hanging out in the bottom part towards the lake
alelibe98,
Friday 14th February, 2025 8:00AM
Paget Peak traverse
South aspect were quite faceted. Alpine slopes were mostly windslab that is 4cm of soft snow on a puchy styrofoam crust. The lower west slopes of Paget had some decent skiing, 10cm of powder on old faceted crusts. Pleasant day in the sun.
wardsbd,
Thursday 13th February, 2025 1:00PM
Ogden
Enjoyed a nice day in the sun after a week of cold. Ogden skied quite well with 20-25cm of soft F-4F snow on the surface. Lots of tracks on the benches, but still fresh turns and great skiing to be found.
The day warmed up quite a bit when the sun hit and we watched a size 1.5 avalanche run off the headwall around noon presumably windslab or cornice releasing with the new warming and sun.
HS 160 at 2300m, midpack supportive and right side up steadily getting firmer with depth up to 1m, didn't dig any further. Some stubborn 4F soft slab in immediate lees on the benches.
cmurrayschlitt,
Thursday 13th February, 2025 10:50AM
Emerald Toodling
Spent a few days poking around Emerald Peak and the Tophat. We counted 36 people doing the Tophat on Saturday, party on Wayne!
Inconsistent gusty moderate winds from the SW Saturday and Sunday scoured exposed features, ridgelines and my face...but protected areas at all elevations held great skiing.
Protected areas held 25-50cm of faceted snow sitting over a varitable plethora of surfaces (windbuff, suncrust and surface hoar). We observed cracking over the sun crust(TL), and evidence of surface creep above the SH in a BTL start zone.
LeCurtois,
Sunday 9th February, 2025 11:00AM
Pulpit Knob 2
Pulpit Knob 1 has a nice skin track in that leads to backcountry moguls. The first descent from the road had a very dangerous tree fallen across the downhill. Lead to a pile-up, then an extraction of the tree at the end of the day.
Observed a large Cornice failure on the Peak at approximately midday. See picture. Very low wind on the skin track and next to no sun at the time.
Some rather cold gusts of wind later in the day.
Hand shear as we got near the top showed the Jan 30th Solar crust about 2cm thick, 40cm down on the South aspect, SP. Nice skiing on heavy powder on the upper knob lead down to the moguls which were variable at best.
Did one more lap and got out of there as it was bitingly cold and there was a tree needing some attention.
Not usually a hand warmer guy, but I fired up a packet today.
markweedon5678,
Saturday 8th February, 2025 11:00AM
Emerald slide path
Went up approx.900m on Emerald Slide path today. The sky was overcast and the winds were calm until we reached the tree line. Above TL we found the snow was wind affected so we turned back. No signs of instability. There was an approx 15cm of powder on a 1F crust. The Jan 30th layer was found 40-60cm throughout the mid elevations. The ride down was challenging as the powder was sitting on chunks of crust. The main path was quite skied out, but you could find random patches of 30cm powder.
RHay,
Saturday 8th February, 2025 12:00AM
Wind effect
It was a cold day on Mt Field with widespread wind effect. While wind slabs were present in the alpine, they remained largely unreactive. However, near treeline, wind slabs proved more sensitive to ski cuts, likely due to a layer of well-preserved surface hoar at that elevation. One slab, estimated at size 1.5 to 2, released at the entrance of a steeper gully and ran for roughly 200 meters downslope.
climbersrock.eugene,
Friday 7th February, 2025 8:00AM
White Rabbit
In Couloir firm Pencil hard snow that was very supportive to all skiers.
On approach any areas sheltered from recent winds held 15-25 cm of new snow above 5cm windslab.
Underneath this windslab were many intact surface hoar crystals.
This slab was not responsive to skier traffic on angles under 30 degrees that we traveled on.
In areas exposed to wind this new snow had been blown away and slab was closer to 15 cm thick, still unresponsive to skier traffic with no indications of shooting cracks/propagation
333marshmallows,
Thursday 6th February, 2025 4:00PM
Ogden ski resort
Today we made it up phantom couloir in some chilly temps, there was some pretty variable conditions through out due to a wind skin that had formed in the line, didn’t top out today stopping about 30 m below the summit due to worsening wind slab concern. In the line its self there was supportive crust down 10-15cm. Through the lower choke I set off a 15 m wide windslab that was 10-15cm deep but didn’t entrain anything below and settled about 5 m down from the crown. The lower fan was lovely with 40 cm of fist and great skiing.
The benches has seen heavy, heavy traffic although still some fresh lines around skiing was great with 35 cm of fist onto of a supportive crust.
Ps Get out there and work on that early season goggle tan.
jjinwood13,
Thursday 6th February, 2025 7:14AM