Just out from the Stanley Mitchell hut, guiding for On Top March 24-28, 2025.

Current ski conditions: some dust on crust on lower angle open slopes but mostly breakable crust on all aspects (1800-2300m). Isothermic snowpack below 1500m. But old tracks on the road were still holding up well.

Mostly observed wet sluffs in the storm snow out of steep terrain on all aspects. Didn’t see a lot of slabs or deeper releases. Limited observations with cloud cover and not travelling above 2550m. There was one big crown (est. 1m deep by 50m wide) after the March 26th storm on a SE aspect of pollinger (2400m) possibly size 2.5.

There was one avalanche off of Wapta mountain that crossed the road and broke some new trees.
There were big sluffs on the road before the big bend. See photos.

Before the storm, we skied some north aspects below 2300m up to 30 degrees and found no signs of instability.

There was no one else in the area during our time.
At the Stanley Mitchell hut, the glass is broken on the wood stove- the Alpine Club of Canada is aware of this. It did not adversely impact our stay.

The warm weather may have woken up a furry clawed friends.