- Submitted by
- christinefeleki
- Observations date
- Wednesday, March 8, 2017 at 05:45
- Location
- 52.696412° N 117.683647° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Good
- Snow conditions were:
- Deep powder
- Powder
- Wind affected
- We rode:
- Alpine slopes
- Dense trees
- Mellow slopes
- We stayed away from:
- Convex slopes
- Open trees
- Steep slopes
- Sunny slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Cloudy
- Sunny
- Avalanche conditions
- Slab avalanches today or yesterday.
- Whumpfing or drum-like sounds or shooting cracks.
Comments
We remote triggered a Sz. 2 avalance today from about 1 km away. NE faceing slope about 100m wide and 100m long. It looks like it stepped down to the Nov facets. See pictures... the second picture shows the distance we triggered the slope from. We were on the ridge top lookers right of picture.
Track setting up into the Bald hills today was deep and faceted throughout the forest. As we reached the TL we found about 30cm of recent storm snow which is settling. We had whoomphs in several areas today and shooting cracks in areas touched by the wind.
We avoided all big alpine features and convexities and gave a wide berth to large planar E and NE facing slopes above, kept to ridge lines and low angle supported terrain.
