- Submitted by
- kipple
- Observations date
- Saturday, February 13, 2021 at 17:19
- Location
- 50.167510° N 123.068810° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Terrible
- Snow conditions were:
- Crusty
- Deep powder
- Hard
- Wind affected
- We stayed away from:
- Alpine slopes
- Convex slopes
- Steep slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Cloudy
- Cold
- Avalanche conditions
- Whumpfing or drum-like sounds or shooting cracks.
Comments
Light snow throughout the day. Started to go up the west wide of rainbow mountain but pulled the plug. Highly variable snow conditions. Deep light powder in (south and east) leeward areas, with large swaths of wind slabs across most aspects. Some cracking was observed while breaking trail at around 1600m, by 1650m we decided we didn't want to be on the open face face with an a huge windslab -- plus the skiing was terrible with flat light. We pulled the plug and did a lap on Gin instead, where the skiing was great.