- Submitted by
- nahanni
- Observations date
- Saturday, December 22, 2018 at 19:26
- Location
- 53.102534° N 121.567823° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Good
- Snow conditions were:
- Wind affected
- We rode:
- Mellow slopes
- Open trees
- We stayed away from:
- Alpine slopes
- Convex slopes
- Steep slopes
- Sunny slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Cloudy
- Cold
- Windy
- Avalanche conditions
- 30cm + of new snow, or significant drifting, or rain in the last 48 hours.
Comments
Ground hog lake
Went roughly 1.2 km south east of ground hog to base of my Agnes
Position 10u 597793. 5873763
Dug pit
South aspect
1850 m elevation
185 cm snow depth
30% incline
Wind from n to s in our area swirling in my Agnes bowl
Temp -8
Overcast
CTM 12 caused 3 small sudden planar 5 cm apart from 160 to 150 cm
New snow is slowly bonding
Foot penetration 31 cm
185 to 165 fist
165 to 152 4 finger
152 to 137 1 finger
137 to 77 1 finger
77 to 20 4 finger
20 to ground knife (ice )
Didn’t get time to look at snow crystals
Looking south across bowl to my Agnes remnants of avalanche from couple weeks or longer ago .(was up last week and saw debris )
Fun day riding