Stay out of backcountry

no shit! If you're trying to break trail right now it's silly... snowboarders wouldn't even stand a chance breaking trail with their snowshoes. as the avalanche website says: "When you're skinning through waist deep, you know there's a problem."
 
I've done a couple small tours over the past week or so and nothing was moving (no sluff or anything)...
yesterday at around 2:30 stuff was fracturing everywhere in bounds (we received 80cm of snow in 48 hours), today we woke up to +2C and the hill isn't opening today.
I'm very curious as to how the snowpack will react. time to go dig some pits and check it out tomorrow i guess.
 
I don't think the rain soaked all the way through.

It's really sketchy out there. Tomorrow on granite will be interesting.

When all the highways in and out of the Kootenays are closed, it's time to wear the beacon inbounds
 
i had a sweet day on sun peaks on monday. 35cm. didn't go to the backcountry because i was on my own and no beacon. inbounds was fun. i heard they were cross cutting the trails or whatever the technical term is for going back and forth across a run to check the snow. they said they do that if it falls 5cm even.
 
yea, there were avalanches that went onto the road at paulson pass and a size 4 at kootenay pass.
 
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