Begbie Shoulder

Carte pour le rapport du Réseau d'information en montagne: Begbie Shoulder

Conditions de neige

La qualité du hors-piste était:
Excellente
Les conditions de neige étaient :
  • Poudreuse abondante
  • Lourde
Nous avons parcouru:
  • Pentes de faible inclinaison
  • Forêt dégagée
Nous sommes restés à l'écart de:
  • Pentes convexes
  • Pentes raides

Information

La journée était:
  • Chaude
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

Commentaires

Lots of obvious clues yesterday on the skin up Begbie Shoulder. Above ~1600m we observed numerous small slabs that had occurred naturally overnight. They seemed to have been triggered by treebombs, failing on convexities and were generally ~30cm deep failing within the recent storm snow. As we approached treeline we triggered several similar slabs, but at treeline they were up to 75cm deep in lee windloaded areas. They propagated up to 15m wide, however we were avoiding larger slopes and it is likely that on bigger terrain the slabs would have propagated wider. We were cautious in our terrain selection and group management, avoided convexities and ski cut slopes where appropriate.