We hiked up to check out the skier-triggered avalanche from yesterday (3/21). There was a lot of wind effect, especially above treeline. After getting some data from the avalanche, we skied back to the road and went over to Magpie to get an eye on conditions.  [ Read More ]

Stayed low and toured through the trees, then climbed out and up via the S/SW aspect of Max’s mountain to the summit. The established skintrack was west of us but we just missed it and broke trail further east/south. Exited via our skintrack down to Virgin Creek and out the valley floor.  [ Read More ]

Went out for a short afternoon tour and ended up following skin tracks heading onto 30 degree plus unsupported slopes. At this point, experienced some instability with cracking and hollow sounding snowpack. Things just didn’t feel right and headed back towards more protected terrain. Decided to dig a quick pit down 1 meter before continuing  [ Read More ]

Typical route from Virgin Creek. Track through the trees was icy, once out of the trees we noticed a crust about 1 inch thick that lasted until about 2,000 feet then completely disappeared by 2,200 feet. Overall, ski quality was light powder easy turns in the sun.  [ Read More ]

We toured up to about 2500′, and dug pits on a sheltered NE aspect at 2300′. We found a thick layer of weak facets buried 8-14″ deep in our pits, which was giving us poor stability test results and large collapses at lower elevations. Signs were pointing to poor stability, and we adjusted our travel  [ Read More ]