While skiing the past 3 days in the Battle Range (Selkirk Mountains), we have had whumphing in most open areas on the facets overlying the February 3rd rain crust, which is now buried an average of 120cm deep below tree-line. I do not remember so much whumphing that has lasted for multiple days in the last 14 years since I’ve been living and guiding around Revelstoke. We have found amazing skiing on short laps in conservative terrain, but have been too scared to push out into big steep slopes or avalanche paths. Given the nature of the problem, it might not heal very quickly and will take some discipline not to push out into bigger and steeper terrain when all the conservative terrain gets skied out.

Alex Geary