Mission Creek

We turned around about 300’ up the Pitchfork in Mission Creek this morning. There was 10-20 cm thick wind slabs on the margins of the path that I think would have disappeared had we continued higher into what I’ve found in the past to be the more sheltered aspect of the couloir. But we didn’t make it that far after finding a thin graupel layer 60 cm down that was reactive in stability tests. HS was 200 cm where we dug. Hopefully the graupel problem won’t last very long and it’s obviously specific to those sorts of features but I’d imagine it’s present in similar terrain inside the advisory area as well.