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Mar 27, 2013 Spent the day sledding through this incredible range. Weather :sunny under high pressure,yet things stayed cool in the Alpine yest, up to +1-+2c. Winds calm. Snowpack: in the area, is highly variable, due to previous winds, and the nature of this terrain scours most of the W aspects. Snowpack in sheltered areas is around 250cm on avg. Shady
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Mar 22: Microwave, 'The Needle', Mt Leach. Skiied into the area from the Denis West Rd. Dug sev hasty pits at Treeline and into the alpine. The Mar 9 surface layer was visible at treeline, down 40 cm giving Hard, resistant shears, and was more sporadic, and isolated in the Alpine. Wind was calm, temps in the -6 range, a scattered sky. No natural
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Hi Chris; You query is a little vague, but I will try to help you out. I was out doing some avalanche terrain mapping on snowmobile on tues in the Robinson Ridge area, just NE of Kitimat above Minette Bay. There is still snow from valley bottom, although getting thin (spring like) on solar aspects at low elevation. The rain crust from Feb 15 is present
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Nice day to check out a new area. Spring like. Melt freeze crust from parking to 1000m, then 5-10cm low density on well settled pack. Surface hoar growing up to 5-6mm to ridge top. No wind effect in recent storm snow from monday, no new or prev avalanche observed. Sled cutting short steep rolls and convexities produced no result. Track pen minimal,
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Excellent skiing. Weather: mix of sun/cloud both days with light convective flurries up to 10cm. Winds picked up overnight, and Mod Westerlies today. Temps -7c - -3c Snowpack: height of snow in the area near treeline is 175cm. 25 cm recent storm snow sits on the interface from last weeks warm spell. Solar aspects this is a suncrust, and on northerly
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Observations from an AST 2 course on the weekend. We did a tour around the area, starting from the day hut, and going south, around the south chutes, out the pass east of Hankin Mtn proper, and looked at exiting down Cardiac Bowl, but the 400' of exposed rock looked less than desirable, so out through the trees near idiots uptrack. Weather: was
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Nice ski in the sun today. Temps inverted, with valley fog well below treeline. L W winds. Seem to be in a holding pattern with the snowpack - need snow! N aspects are wind effected from recent outflows. Best ski quality is on S aspects. There is still windslabs lurking in localized pockets, ski cut a size 1 in the Alpine on a lee East aspect, but localized
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Some observations from a packed crowd of 12 from an AST 1 snowmobile avalanche course: Weather: Cold, to cold to bother with a temperature -15c at least, and scattered sky with high overcast. Winds tapered off in the PM, with only minor wind transport noted off the highest Alpine ridges. Snowpack: Evidence of recent windloading in the Alpine, Lee to
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Up on Thornhill Mountain today, here are some observations: Weather: Valley fog topped at 2500' with clear sky above, deteriorating rapidly through the day. Mod W winds. -5c at 3800' treeline. Snowpack: Variable depths in the area due to prev wind effect. Avg snowpack depth @100cm. Test profile at 3600' on a NW aspect 33 deg showed new rimed
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Strong W -NW winds triggered a natural avalanche cycle this afternoon at hankin. Observations from treeline above Run 2 showed several Size 2 in the cardiac chutes. Many of the slabs failed quite low in the tracks behind x-loaded features such as ribs and gullies. The headwall at the back of the valley to climbers L of the regular uptrack pulled out