Ground Truthing in Crowsnest

La qualité du hors-piste était:

Incroyable

Les conditions de neige étaient :

• Poudreuse abondante

Nous avons parcouru:

• Blocs de coupe forestière

Nous sommes restés à l'écart de:

• Pentes alpines

La journée était:

• Froide

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

You know the avalanche danger is high when you get to watch natural avalanches happening😮‼️ A north west wind was cranking in the Crowsnest today, redistributing all the recent storm snow into very touchy wind slabs. We were observing the alpine from some non avalanche terrain and saw a few small (size 1) slab avalanches cascade off the headwalls into the fans below. A half hour later we witnessed a large (size 2) avalanche with an exciting powder cloud. Even though we are not getting new snow right now, the conditions are still very dynamic with so much snow available for transport and persistent weak layers in play. 


Check out the info in the Special Public Avalanche Warning (SPAW) at avalanche.ca