Howling ridge top winds today had me thinking of severe wind slabs.
Temperatures were warmer by ten degrees from the previous day.
Headed out into the whiteout to the Top of the World where no one one was.
Grey, windy and spooky, it was a throwback day in EV.
No cornice on the roll, so I could do this.
No reaction to the hard slab chunks.
Again nothing moving after the initial slide for life the chunks did.
The world below the ridgeline was completely different.
Stayed on the ridge line all the way to the end.
The face below Tweeners is notorious for sliding.
Facing slightly NE, it tends to get crusts with the sunit, then covered by storm snow.
When instability is bad, this triangle face can let you know.
Again, much to my surprise, it held with out so much as a sluff through the run.
Had the world to myself, enjoyed the solitude in the Forgotten Trees with some fine pow skiing.
