Wall Lake

Brett and i skied into Wall Lake yesterday. There was close to 40 cm of new snow at the gates on the parkway and Bennett Pass had 70 cm of fresh snow. It made for brutal trail breaking. The snow was pure powder up to about 1900m where i noticed a 5-10 cm soft wind slab developing. The south wind was snortin' over Akimina Ridge so that whole aspect from Wall Lake to the top end of Bennett Pass is loaded and ready to go. We watched one big avalance spill over the rock cliffs at the upper couloirs and another one break loose directly above Midnite Madness but surprisingly, that one stopped before it dumped onto the ice. That being said, the ice survived last week's warm spell and is climbable but again it needs another couple of weeks of cold weather to fill in to be decent climbing and that whole aspect needs to slide to be safe.