Whumpfs and avalanches at Lakit

Conditions d'avalanche

• Avalanches de plaque datant d'aujourd'hui ou d'hier.
• 30 cm + de neige fraîche ou transport important de neige par le vent ou pluie au cours des dernières 48 heures
• Whoumfs ou bruits sourds ou fissures qui se propagent.

Lots of signs of instability on our walk along the ridge towards Lakit Lookout. There was 20-30 cm heavy powder, you could hear loud wind in the alpine, we experienced lots of whumpfs, snowpack tests were showing an obvious weak layer 30 cm deep, we saw fresh avalanche debris from natural avalanches in the adjacent alpine bowl, and then while skinning along the ridge we remotely triggered two size 2 avalanches on some steeper terrain nearby. It was certainly a day for sticking to mellow terrain, which in our case meant skiing back down our skin track along the ridgetop.