Cardiff bowl11/8/2022
Decide it would be a good day to ski across the street from Alta today, mainly Cardiff Bowl and East Hellgate. The storm had dropped 5 inches of graupel by the time we arrived and the strong winds yesterday had smoothed out the old surface so we knew the S facing would be good. It was even better than expected with creamy turns and no bottom feeding. There were a few exposed spots on SE facing terrain features that were scoured down to the old snow surface but the coverage had improved dramatically with the graupel filling in all the rocks and other terrain features all the way down to the road. The graupel was loose and non cohesive and not forming any sort of slab. The wind did continue to blow in the strong category all day, and around 3pm the graupel turned to snowfall and intensified. Hazard tomorrow depends on how much snow falls on top of the graupel and how much of a cohesive slab is on it. Todays graupel bonded about as well as graupel does to the old surface. If we get a decent load tonight I’d be wary of steep exposed slopes until they are proved innocent.
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charlie
11/8/2022 07:55:25 pm
good to see bones out there getting it ! thanks y’all <3
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