Dec. 15 Kicking Horse

Nice wind sift today at KH, with some fresh. Skiing very nicely. Still sharks lurking to watch for. Perhaps one day we can start hucking stuff without worrying about season ending rock hits.

Dec. 14 SSV Rock Isle Lake

Went for a walk with Dave to Rock Isle Lake. Didn't ski the slope we wanted today, although smaller terrain, but steep enough to slide. Lots of very large collapses in the snowpack consistently. Noticeable "cakey" slab, punching through on skis into facetts below. Mod - High winds to the NE direction. Cohesive slab on top of facetts. Watch for this when buried....

Dec. 13 Kicking Horse

Coverage is getting better and better with each snowfall. Hazards are starting to get covered over, and soon after some more snow it will be game on. Avalanche conditions on the other hand seem dicey, with alot of recent activity.

P is loving the new skis.

Dec. 12 SSV

Snowing all day at SSV. Really shitty up there at the moment. Lots of rocks still even after the recent snow. Shallow areas are going to be shit for a long time unless SSV closes some of the runs to let the fucking snow build up....lol...not bloody likely. Yeah yeah...they need to open the runs to let people compact and stabilize the snow. Well...won't have to worry about that for alot of areas since it keeps getting scraped to ground.

Dec. 11 Crowfoot

Lake crossing is currently sketchy. Water came shooting out of my pole hole, slush coming up, cracking ice.... Going to wait for colder weather before crossing again.

Snowpack sketchy. No support. Storm snow on facetted base on rain crust. Some whoomfing / cracking noted. Approx. 2020 metres skier triggered size 1 slab confined to small gulley feature. North aspect. Convexities reacting easily. Stayed to easily managable terrain.

Dec. 10 Kicking Horse resort

Awesome day. Coverage is improving big time. Still plenty of sharks, but getting much better. Lots of faceshots.

Plenty of slide activity on various aspects from control work noted. Also noted a wack of natural activity outside of the resort.

Dec. 6 / 7 SSV

Sunshine Village definately needs more snow. Lots of rock showing through on even the most compacted areas. Plenty of surface hoar growing at and below treeline. Didn't get a good look at the alpine, but will be some thing else to watch for when the snow starts to fly again.

Slide on Hilda Ridge Dec. 4

Not much mentioned in the avy bulletins as far as slab activity. Took a pic of these new slabs that cut out on Hilda Ridge today....didn't notice them in the morning looking up there, but sure did on the way out. Looks like a skin track heading into them aswell.

Def. plenty of slab up high in the open terrain sitting on top of facets. Have also been able to get convex lee terrain to react to skier cuts quit easily for the past while. Also have been getting very poor results in pits on similar features IE lee / cross loaded...convex slopes.

Dec. 4 scoping mission

Went for a peak to hunt for more areas to ski. Found some good turns for the future when ski conditions are better. Lots of fun terrain around here, alot of which is not pictured.

Dec. 3 Kicking Horse opener

Little bit hungover. Didn't make it to the hill until about noonish. Only made 2 laps. Still some very thin areas there. Both J and I feeling like crap and it took us forever to make it back down to the car.

Dec. 2 Rogers Pass

Hit Rogers Pass today. Good turns up at 1900, really shitty and thin below about 1700ish. Nice to get turns in decent powder.

Typical Rogers Pass hotel shenanigans, this time it was the food. Going to call it the Rogers Hotel effect....always an interesting experience there.

Dec. 1 SSV

SSV with Petra, Jason, Don, and Wins. Good times. Ripper laps. Shallow areas abound, will probably remain thin in certain areas all season due to snow scrapers. Too bad they don't just leave it closed until there is good coverage.

Nov. 30 SSV

Solo laps up at SSV. Decent, needs more snow.