Skied the backside of high east, skiier triggered wind slab. Skier caught and carried 30 ft staying on top of snowpack.  [ Read More ]

Standard route on Troy, there were a couple of inches of fresh snow from today and yesterday, we also observed significant wind transport up high. The steep face of troy above the transition meadow is pretty much not skiable due to scouring, and there are several other rock bands that I have never seen before  [ Read More ]

Hiked up to Wedding Bowl from the Porcupine chair. We could start skinning once we popped out of the trees at the base of Wedding Bowl. We skied various aspects on Ben Stewart and found 2″-4″ of low density snow sitting on a crust. The upper snow had very little cohesion and the winds were  [ Read More ]

Based on observations in the Mt. Troy area, from descriptions of skiers coming down Eaglecrest, and what I could observe of Mt. Stewart from across the valley, the “skiable” snow in open terrain starts at 1900ft. That’s just above the top of Hooter and base of Black Bear Chairs, and is at the elevation of  [ Read More ]

Went up lookers right ridge. Bare ground to 2000’. Surface was a mix of surface hoar and rotten crust with runnels. Boot pen 10-15 cm down to hard supportable crust. Dug a pit around 2500’ on NW aspect, 17 deg slope. Total snow depth 90cm. Facets below upper crust.  [ Read More ]

Standard Stewart up track. Skied in Wedding Bowl and Cropley. Freezing rain crust everywhere, varies form a fun zipper crust in some areas to a grabby pane of glass in others. Steeper slopes skis best. Low tide in Cropley. Wouldn’t recommend Cropley unless you have rock skis, a sturdy helmet, and low standards. The three  [ Read More ]

Observed crown and debris field from top of hooter 12/14/24  [ Read More ]

Raining all the way to the top, windy from easy bowl on up  [ Read More ]

Observation occurred at 0600 this morning. All three of the Steep Chutes slide across the summer road.  [ Read More ]

Skinned up Bunny Toe Pass to the top of Fred Meyer Bowl. Winds were calm in that area with little evidence of wind transport at that elevation. We dug at the top for Fred Meyer Bowl and found a weak layer on top of a crust down 22cm and another one down 31cm. Neither of  [ Read More ]