Just back from 4 days at Rogers Pass with a Warden Service Deep Snow
school.
Nearly a meter of snow fell since Sunday. There were two Red Forms with
control work one on Monday and one Wednesday with size three + avalanches
on both shoots. Some avalanches are still stepping down to early season
facet weaknesses.
There is about 280cm of snow at treeline with approx 130cm of DFs over the
January 13 Crust. Several shears in the storm snow came and went over the
four days. Ski pen was about 60 on Monday/Tuesday but settled out to around
30 by Thursday.
At around 1500metres on a south aspect we ski cut/triggered a few size 1
slabs about 60-80cm deep shearing on the Jan 13 CR on steep unsupported
features in the trees.
Skiing was good once the snowpack settled and trailbreaking became
manageable. We were avoiding all of the open terrain.
Stability: Poor Poor Fair .Trend: improving.
Brad White
UIAGM Mountain Guide
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