Skied from kicking horse the last 2 days, both days went
North to the Molar area. Noticed lots of wind slabs on N and NE aspects. Today
I saw 1 size 2, wasn’t there yesterday, off the lower ridge of the ozone NE
aspect, 1800m. 20 to 70 deep, 200m wide and 150m long. Also felt some
settlements in the snow pack. I skied fairly conservative lines and used the
terrain to minimize our exposure. I felt like it would be easy to trigger
slides on the big lines that we often ski out there so heads up. The Jan 26
facets are down roughly 50 to 70cm’s and I was getting moderate results.
The top 20 was easily ski triggered and was propagating but not running far
where I was testing. Great skiing out there but my confidence was low for any
of the big lines.
Cheers
Todd Craig, Mtn Guide
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