Just back from 8 days of great ski touring at the Fairy Meadows Hut with James Vickers!
Travel was good with about 200cm at treeline, and from 240cm to over 300cm on most of the glaciers. The largest crevasses were still thinly bridged and wind scoured areas were also quite thin, so we took fairly conservative lines while skiing on the glaciers as well as traveling roped up a fair bit.
In terms of avalanches we had about 60cm of new snow through the week accompanied by some high winds at times. Our main concerns were wind slabs in lee features and on steep rolls. Below the wind slabs the snow pack was quite strong with no major concerns for deeper layers as of last week. Some weak areas around rocky outcrops and moraines were also avoided.
A great place to spend a week hunting powder!
Cheers, Conrad Janzen
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