November 24, 2011, Alpental
11/24/11
WA Snoqualmie Pass
2726
2
4-6" fresh over a crust over 24" heavy goo, glad I switched from my 70mm skis to my fat Manaslus. Fog below 3700', clear above to start the day, but totally gray with flat light when we entered International. No tracks, some slide debris, 6" powder on a firm crust made for ok turns. Below 4200' was 20-24" heavy thick snow. After surviving that without injury, we adjourned to West for laps on the groomers, even slightly icy in spots.
Great training day, but I want more days like last weekend. Happy Thanksgiving!
Great training day, but I want more days like last weekend. Happy Thanksgiving!
We ended up at west also, for a drink.
Pretty morning, heavy snow. Quite a bit of slide debris everywhere, all of it covered with at least a little new snow. Sluffs and small slabs clearly ran yesterday in the 3-6" atop a thin crust; might move again with more loading, it cracked a little between skis. Instability on that layer seemed greatest on SE-SW aspects, at least locally. NW slopes had light windscouring.
Snowing very nicely in the afternoon at West. Happy T-day!
Snowing very nicely in the afternoon at West. Happy T-day!
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