Steve and I returned to South Willow Creek today and found very good skiing on sheltered north facing slopes. 12" new snow from last Fri/Sun series sitting on a zipper mf crust that would collapse on CT, but just not sensitive to ski cuts. Weaker layer Dave found 18"-20" down is now 25" down in this area and is a mix of graupel 2-3 mm and facets that would only fail when I was really pounding on it. We both felt that we would have a very hard time penetrating this far into the pack, and since 48 hours have past we were comfortable with stability in this area.
No collapsing or cracking and we, on purpose, used uptrack to stomp around on steep angle terrain to see how it would react. The only activity I was able to trigger was minor sluffing with ski cut on very steep rollovers that exist all over on smaller scales. No natural activity noted anywhere.
Started out clear and cool this am, but around 11 cloud deck moved in and it remained very cool all day. Sun did come out on very long exit shot, so to add to epic snow conditions we had backlit sun just for more smiles.
South facing side of canyon crusted and welded in place, winds had been busy from the north but only affect the very tops of the ridges. Killer skiing for middle of March, winter is not over yet.
No collapsing or cracking and we, on purpose, used uptrack to stomp around on steep angle terrain to see how it would react. The only activity I was able to trigger was minor sluffing with ski cut on very steep rollovers that exist all over on smaller scales. No natural activity noted anywhere.
Started out clear and cool this am, but around 11 cloud deck moved in and it remained very cool all day. Sun did come out on very long exit shot, so to add to epic snow conditions we had backlit sun just for more smiles.
South facing side of canyon crusted and welded in place, winds had been busy from the north but only affect the very tops of the ridges. Killer skiing for middle of March, winter is not over yet.
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