High winds with gusts of 120 KPH and 30 cm of snow in the past 2 days equals a very big snowdrift!!! |
At 2280 meters the temperature was -10 at 05:45, winds were 30-55 KPH SSW. At 1550 meters the temperature was -6, 96 % humidity, and the barometer is rising. At 1650, pig alley the snow measurement was 14 cm at 1550 catskiner there was 13 cm recorded. It was -2 in the valley.
Should be some awesome turns to be had today, especially in the trees.
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A bit more info from the Duffy Area:
Yeah I know, same old spot. But it was storming hard, and 2 thunderous naturals/2 trees fallen on cerise trail scared us off from heading up vantage ridge in the am. So we headed to pascall instead for a safer route up. Turns out the storm snow is pretty bomber and bonding well with no real layers of concern. We observed 1 natural in the W bowl off pascall that was clearly due to windloading under a fresh cornice. I suspect the others that we heard were wind loading as well. The snow is stupid deep and insanely dry for the duffey. I feel like I have said this every day for the last while, but today was some of the best duffey snow I've ridden
- saw 1 and heard 2 naturals today on windloaded slopes - cornices grew a lot
- we dug some pits around pascall - storm snow is bonding well and no layers of concern. over a meter now in the storm cycle