The Canadian Mountain and Ski Guide program Ski Guide Exam just spent the last three days skiing various locations in Rogers Pass.

Spring like conditions exist in valley bottoms and on solar aspects where a variety of crusts, from carrying to breakable can be found depending on elevation, slope angle and aspect. We were finding great skiing on shady aspects down to about 1800m. By mid afternoon yesterday we found moist snow up to 2500m (and likely higher) on a south aspect.

The 25cm from last Fridays storm produced a cycle of soft slabs and wet snow avalanches that diminished over the weekend but we were still avoiding areas of obvious wind loading.

There was well over 350cm of snow on all of the glaciers we visited. Cornices were very large but we did not observe any fresh activity.

Have fun,

Marc Piché