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Hello,
Just spent the last few days ( Feb12-15 )
camping and skiing in Bostock Creek area with the Canadian New Zealand semester.
We were seeing basically the same things as reported by Sylvia a few days ago.
We also were able to skier control a size 1 avalanche about 30 meters wide and
60 meters long on the 2-3 cm surface hoar. This avalanche was on a north aspect
at 1400 meters. We also were finding the surface hoar on the south aspects at
lower elevations was about the same size as the north aspect. At higher
elevations the surface hoar was much smaller however the crust on the south
aspect was still giving easy to moderate results.
As of yesterday afternoon the snow above
the surface hoar/crust was settling into a more cohesive slab. I would imagine
given this and the new snow that is falling we will see larger propagations on
this layer, which could easily be triggered by a skier.
Heads Up!
Jesse de Montigny
Assistant Ski Guide
Assistant Alpine
Guide
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