[MCR] Rogers Pass

Skiing in the Pass the past two days with an epic deep powder day today. Trailbreaking off the old tracks was up to your hip on your uphill leg. The skiing was too deep for turns on the lower angled slopes. Below 1500 m things are still very bony though and it takes a bit of time to work your way through these areas.

40-60 cm of snow now overlies the old surfaces of facets and wind crusts. Where we were skiing in Connaught Creek at treeline this storm snow was not wind affected and we did not see any cracking or hear any whumpfing. There was wind at higher elevations though and we limited our exposure to alpine slopes above us.

There was avalanche debris out of Frequent Flyer that hit the uptrack, looked like within the past 24 hours, probable loose snow, size 1.5. There was also an unconfirmed report of a larger avalanche out of Cheops 1 that dusted the uptrack later in the day.

Good skiing but time to tread carefully, if any wind or warm temps gets at this new snow there will be a widespread slab instability.

Mark Klassen

Mountain Guide