Vancouver Island

Snow was hard and never warmed up to form much spring corn. Still looks like all of the cornices are up on the east side of the bumps.we drove to within 400m of rosseau chute traihead

Chucked the skis on the pack and hiked up to the Mt. Myra zone for some Island spring skiing. Snowline is at 800 m. Creeks are melted out and require sketchy dry crossings or wading. Observed ~ 3cm of fresh wind transported snow above 1400 m. Probed 180 cm snow depth at 1700 m. Despite our early start, solar aspects were warming rapidly, with boot top penetration at times. Lots of sun cupping and evidence of prior wet slabs on solar aspects. The two north gullies off the summit col showed evidence of size 2 avalanches with debris up to 1.5 m. The cornices at the top of each gully are still hanging on. We decided to avoid skiing the gullies and enjoyed some corn-ish turns on the NW ridge.

Did the 5040-Adder traverse as a day trip. Overnight freeze caused the snow to be very firm in the morning. Sun exposed aspects softened by 9am and all aspects by noon. Air temps to ~20degrees in the afternoon. Snow was isothermal. Many smaller skier caused wet slides while skiing and skinning on steeper slopes. Snow depth at Adder-Jacks Col (1000m) 1.8m Snow depth at 5040 North aspect 1150m 3.5m