[MCR] South Coast Mountains, Spearhead.

Was guiding off Blackcomb for the past couple of days.

Yesterday skied to Tremor Mt over a variety of surfaces. Today was beyond the ropes at Blackomb.

Saw no new avalanches. Skied steeper stuff like the NW side of Pattison- most stuff was hit by the millions of monkeys with no results.

Many crevasses still stand out as sags but seem to be well filled with strong bridges.

 

The South Aspects had been cooked days ago and are now a nasty crust from 2400m down to near valley bottom.

 

North Aspects were somewhat wind effected at ridge top but a lot of the surface snow was facetted and made for great skiing. In more sheltered locations Surface Hoar was growing.  From 1300m down a rain crust is buried by a up to20cm of facets and Surface Hoar. Good skiing where the crust supportive. The past inversion preserved the snow cover throughout many valleys

 

It started snowing lightly at 1:30 pm today in the alpine. The Avalanche Hazard- till this PM- was Moderate/Low all aspects at the elevations I visited 1200m – 2400m.

 

Dave Sarkany

SG

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