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Fine skiing for November today on the main
Black Prince slopes. The November crust is still saving the day. A fairly good
workout breaking trail in 20cms new snow and 30cms unconsolidated snow
below that. No recent wind effect to the top of the trees. The crust still
carries almost everywhere we skied up and down. With a light touch and an
eye for the willows we had good turns from the top to the
trail.
No signifigant weak layers found in several rough
compression and burp tests. Several healthy sounding avalanches ran
from the big slabs in the alpine somewhere on the Warspite/Black Prince
ridge.
The weather forecast for Banff, Yoho and
Kananaskis seems to point to a calm, showery weekend and the
avalanche danger is forecast to decrease over the next two days in Banff,
Kootenay and Yoho. However, if the
weather forecast is wrong and the wind does blow up high, there just may
be avalanches running fairly far and fast out of the steep alpine along the
divide. I would not recommend wandering around under any big, steep, alpine
terrain on skiis or crampons just yet. If you do, just remember what
the Friendly Giant used to say to Rusty, "Look up. Look way
up!"
Larry Stanier
Mountain Guide
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