- Submitted by
- Fisal Elstone
- Observations date
- Saturday, March 16, 2019 at 19:30
- Location
- 50.019250° N 122.852030° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Good
- Snow conditions were:
- Powder
- We rode:
- Alpine slopes
- Steep slopes
- We stayed away from:
- Convex slopes
- Sunny slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Cloudy
- Warm
- Avalanche conditions
- Rapid temperature rise to near or above 0°C or wet surface snow.
Comments
We skied the NW face of Fissile on Saturday March 16th. Thirty cm of low density snow sitting on a hard crust made for fast fun skiing. Overcast all day with temps reaching +5C in the alpine and +10 around treeeline. No wind during the day but evidence of significant snow transport on most un-sheltered aspects. Shooting cracks were observed on North facing, wind affected, unsheltered aspects between the base of banana chute and psycho chute. We skied out via cowboy ridge and singing pass, a wet size 1 had released on a convexity along cowboy ridge earlier that day.