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Just out of a fun week of skiing at the Kokanee Glacier Cabin with the ACC and Felix Camire! We had a metre of fresh snow the day before we arrived followed by a large natural avalanche cycle on the various surface hoar layers up to size 3.5 on all aspects. Since then the weather has been mostly clear and sunny with only a few flurries and 5cm of new snow through the week.
The March surface hoar is now down 55-65cm in most places and producing sudden planar shears in the moderate to hard range. We had whumphing in shallow areas all week and a couple skier remote avalanches which also stepped down to the lower surface hoar layers. The continued potential for skier triggering avalanches and for triggering things from a distance meant that we avoided all large steep slopes and limited ourselves to low angle terrain and smaller well supported slopes during the week.
Some wind effect in the alpine due to strong winds on Tuesday. South aspects had a supportive crust in the morning and moist snow in the afternoon. As of yesterday we were still able to find good skiing on sheltered N and NE aspects above 1800m!
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