[MCR] Monashee Mountains, West of the Perry River, North of Anstey Pk.

First look around this area for the Mustang Powder guides this winter. LOTS of snow on the ground above 1500m. 235cms of snow at 1700m lodge site. Almost no snow on the Perry River Rd. at km 21.

Numerous profiles today showed no significant weaknesses except a shear 37cm below the surface. This probably/hopefully won't persist for long as it is a new snow instability in a very warm snowpack. No spooky results on the tests as there was no slab above the weak layer until------ we found a steep roll in a gully where a loose snow slough had possibly added some weight to the surface snow and the layer failed as a slab. Skier accidental size 1.5 that ran surprisingly far and fast and could easily have wrapped someone around a tree.

Good skiing and fair travel. Yesterdays warmth and rain doesn't seem to have done much damage here.

Still low confidence travel for us. We have only sampled a few places and a LOT of snow has fallen in a relatively short time.

Larry Stanier
ACMG/IFMGA Mountain Guide