Rogers Pass ski conditions

Here is the latest conditions from the Public Mountian Conditions Report for Roger Pass, it is predictably mixed:

So touring at the pass today proved to give obvious good skiing

conditions on grizzly shoulder and there were only a handful of skiers

out touring.  We were surprised to not have super deep trail breaking

conditions though...maybe 35 cms or so and fast skiing. Some

widespread wind effect was apparent in the alpine  but not at treeline

and below.

We did not see any natural activity today but plenty of past activity

from the recent storm. Temps were cooler hovering around -5 to

-8 at treeline. The sun did feel like it could have an impact on

steeper south facing slopes but thankfully did not.  There was a thin

soft skiable crust to about 1450 metres and the tree bombs were set up

and difficult to ski in tighter trees at around that elevation. Lots

of old bed surfaces were refilled in as well and had not yet slid.

Stability test at 2200 metres(south asp. 30 incline) produced moderate

resistant planar  results in the storm snow( down 25cm; F+ soft slab)

and an easy sudden collapse at the storm snow interface(down

approximate 1 metre). Storm snow settling to 1F resistance at lower

half. Ski tests cutting steep rolls did not get results.

Despite no new natural activity observed where we were skiing there

was a report of a size 4.5 natural avalanche today west of Rogers pass

that ran across the highway on a slide path that didn't before reach

the road taking out 100 year old trees leaving behind a few metres of

debris.

ski safe,

Greg Franson

Ski Guide