Yummy

Gotta love those upslope storms. Hit Nakiska today with good company and had some nice deep snow. Spring time in the rockies baby!

spring storms a comin?

The past week has been more of the same. Finally got into a melt freeze cycle. Been skiing mostly resort, but did manage to head up to Quartz ridge. We ended up getting stormed off of it in a white out. Very strong winds and driving snow. Welcome back winter!! Also got some good footage for the upcoming video.

I'm going to rest up for a few days and recover from my shin bang, in preperation for a forecast that is looking promising for the upcoming week.

couple days resort, couple days back country

Welcome the spring and the first real big avy cycle of the spring. Ski conditions in the back country are shit. Not enough melt freeze yet to glue things together. Every thing seems to be on a hair trigger right now. No expectations of over night freezes either. Things started moving shortly after 9:00 this morning in the Bow zone. Not even going to bother wading through the isothermal snow again tommorrow. Going to check out the resort for some spring skiing over the next few days until things start freezing up over night again.

Above. Photo 3 is a very very very large settlement that occurred in a meadow. The fracture propogated and collapsed the cornice. There's a reason why we weren't exposing ourselves to overhead hazard today, and kept our skin tracks no more than the low 20 degree range. Photo 1 and 2 is a very tiny slab that we cut loose while skiing. You can see that it's very small and isolated to a convex roll, the little fucker did manage to actually break up and slide about a foot.

happy fun times

Got back from my 2 week stint at work and went on an 8 day skiing blitz. Mostly have been hitting the back country, but also got into Wild West, and were the first ones into Delerium when it opened with much storm snow in there. Has been an awesome week for sure.

Avalanche conditions have been quite touchy, and we got a remote trigger to go...from a safe area of course. Also have been skiing some nice chutes at crowfoot that we have been keeping skier compacted, and have been skiing the crap out of the surface hoar in that area since it first started forming up. Also got a nice run in at Purple Bowl today.

I am going to try to start updating the blog on a more regular basis...maybe it's time to start sharing snow condition info on here too. Will see.