Black Prince
Headed out late today, Sat. 22, to Black Prince along with most of Calgary. There must have been 20-25 cars in the parking lot. It seems like most of the people were on some kind of AST course so it was not all that tracked up. The ski quality was pretty good with fast boot top powder and not all that much traffic in the last week. The snowpack is just barely carrying your skis at the parking lot and gets better as you go up although still feels really weak at tree line. There are lots of visible fracture lines that produced large avalanches many running full path, some not looking all that old! There has been and still is significant wind loading in the alpine and treeline, there’s still snow out there to transport and the wind is doing its thing. I’d stay pretty clear of any alpine features even if they have already gone it looks like things have loaded back in pretty good. It didn’t look like there has been a lot of traffic other places in Kananaskis I only saw a couple of cars at Tryst Lake. Play safe there has been lots of wind moving snow around, even at treeline.
