General Observations

Mostly sunny day, calm winds, with a constant temp of -12C up near the head waters of Klehini. No boiler plate crust at the 5 mile trail head, always a bonus! The BTL and TL are holding 25-35cm of light unconsolidated snow on top of a breakable 1-2 cm temp crust. We dug on a SE asp in what would be a start zone into our desired run at 1370m. We observed moderate CT results down 30cm lying on a temp crust that that pulled out resistant planer which we reproduced getting the same result. Also an ECTX. Our HS was 290cm. We skied 35-40 degree SE slopes with 40 cm of soft redistributed sunny powder surface conditions multiple times with no avalanche activity.

This is the fifth time skiing the 5 mile zone this year and I’m gaining confidence in what appears to be a great snowpack on both sides of the Klehini river drainage.

*Must be Canadian to cross the border to ski.