Skiing on piste at the local ski hill in Revelstoke this morning was excellent. We toured up to 5000 ft in the afternoon, from the top of the ski lift (3500 ft). The air temperature was -2.5 deg C at 3 pm. Stability tests on a west aspect showed moderate compression test and shovel shear scores down 40 cm on decomposing stellars, resistant planar. On the Jan 15th layer down 67 cm, we had one resistant planar and one sudden planar shear on size 2 facets, both in the hard range. We had a rutschblock score of 5, half block, resistant planar down 40 cm and no result on the Jan 15th layer.
No ski cut results, no cracking or slab in the top 70 cm. We were happy to have phat skis and big snowboards.
It was snowing an average of 1 cm/hr for most of the day, increasing to 3 cm/hr at 4 pm.
Jordy Shepherd
Mountain Guide