We ascended the cat track past the hut. Light rain at the parking lot gradually changed to snow around 1000′. Breakable crust to about 1000″ then the crust was less noticeable and disappeared above 1500″. No avalanches observed.  [ Read More ]

Attempted to brave the icy Seward Highway to Turnagain Pass but turned the truck around at Ingram, at the bottom of the Pass, and headed to the coffee shop. Just like being in the mountains and encountering a lot of red flags telling us the snowpack is dangerous turning us around, the road was telling  [ Read More ]

We did a few laps in the sun in the Crow Creek area today. We dug one snowpit to the ground on a southern aspect at about 2000′ and found the weakest snowpack I’ve seen this season. There were multiple layers of faceted snow that didn’t give cause for concern where we were traveling today,  [ Read More ]

Toured up to about 2500′ on Notch Mountain. Skied the trees on the N aspect.  [ Read More ]

First tracks up, light snow with little moisture content. One woomph on the way up but otherwise no shooting cracks or other observations. Snow pit at 2300 feet NE aspect. CT23 and no failure on our ECT. Failure occurred on the compacted layer above the thanksgiving crust layer, which was at a depth of about  [ Read More ]