Update
on Monashee mountains,
The
snow continues out here in the Monashee mountains with 70-80 cms. of storm
snow over the last 3 days. It has been highly reactive to skier triggering and
there was a natural avalanche cycle Tuesday from the alpine into below
treeline terrain with a significant wind event yesterday afternoon with
the passing of the cold front yesterday afternoon. Today they are calling for
another 20 cm. of snow - The December 26th crust is 85-100cm. deep at this
point and has seen a lot of recent loading so it may soon start to become
reactive.
In
short the skiing is amazing but the hazard is quite high and the storm snow
instabilities are deep enough now to produce significant avalanches - so be
prudent in your run choice and be aware of overhead threat of larger terrain
features that may produce large natural avalanche.
Ski
Safe,
Scott
Davis
Mountain Guide